Daqstra

Daqstra is an operating layer for physical test infrastructure, positioned as an API for hardware research and development. It connects the data acquisition systems, PLCs and custom hardware at a test stand, unifies live and historical test data, and orchestrates each run, replacing the channel lists, calibrations and configurations that engineers otherwise rebuild by hand between tests. The platform targets aerospace, energy and robotics teams. In aerospace it covers static fires, qualification campaigns and ground support systems; in energy it brings PLCs, historians and custom rigs at nuclear, oil and gas, turbine and grid facilities into one governed, traceable system; in robotics it serves hardware in the loop benches, fleet telemetry and drone flight tests. It has three components. Edge connects to NI equipment, PLCs and custom hardware, streaming every channel live and sending commands back out. Hub ingests every run and uses AI to organize the data, so engineers can search, compare and trace root cause across campaigns. The API lets engineers orchestrate hardware as code, including sequences, redlines and aborts, keeping the whole test loop under version control. Daqstra does not publish pricing. Access starts with a demo request, after which a founder follows up to review the customer's stack and define a next step, so pricing is quote based. The company says the system first ran in live liquid oxygen and isopropyl alcohol static fire campaigns with the SEDS chapter at UC San Diego before any other deployment.