Frequently asked questions
Straight answers about Ionity Global, our services and the live on-device demos.
What is Ionity Global?
Ionity Global (Pty) Ltd is a South African Native-AI engineering company. We build AIoT, Cloud and Edge systems, custom MCP servers, AI agents and copilots, dashboards and live digital twins, and we run evidence-first audits and forensics. We are solutionists across mechanical, electrical and IT, and we make the hardware when the software needs a body.
Is Ionity Global the same as the IONITY EV-charging network?
No. Ionity Global (Pty) Ltd is a South African Native-AI, AIoT, Edge and audit company founded by Johan Wilhelm van Antwerp. It is a separate, unrelated entity from the European electric-vehicle charging network IONITY GmbH (ionity.com).
What services does Ionity Global offer?
Twenty-one services in five pillars. Intelligence: Native-AI integration (custom MCP, RAG, copilots), AI implementation and adoption, and agent development. Edge and hardware: hardware AI training and deployment (ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Hailo, GPU nodes), AIoT and edge systems, and hardware, firmware and edge compute. Software and cloud: software development, custom B2B systems and dashboards (including RMS), and cloud, data and hosting. Assurance: audit and forensics, and technical advisory. Now trending (2026): sovereign and offline AI, AI security and red-teaming, preemptive cyber defence, physical AI and robotics, predictive maintenance, energy and ESG intelligence, AI search visibility (GEO), digital provenance and trust, and AI literacy and team enablement. See the Services page.
What is the Edge Micro-Audit?
A live, 100% on-device diagnostic of your hardware and network, measured entirely in your browser — nothing is transmitted. It is a real taste of how Ionity audits infrastructure, evidence-first.
What is AEDi?
AEDi (Automated Ecosystems Designs Intelligence) is Ionity's own Native-AI assistant, embedded on this website. It answers questions and routes you to the right page, and it is built on frontier AI models and our own AI fabric.
Which cookies does the site use?
One strictly-necessary cookie (ionity_consent) that remembers your consent choice, plus optional preference storage that stays off until you allow it. No advertising or tracking cookies. The full list, lifetimes and third-party services are itemised in the Cookie Policy.
What is ProGramerly?
ProGramerly is Ionity’s free desktop app that provisions a complete development environment on Windows, macOS and Linux in one run, keeps it in sync, and watches the machine from the tray with AEDi running locally and offline. Get it at ionity.digital — more on our Software page.
What is ionity.fun?
ionity.fun is Ionity’s gaming site. Its first title, IO-MAN — Get Over It Door, is a free ASCII side-scrolling beat-em-up that runs in the browser, with gamepad support and landscape touch controls on mobile. See all our Freebies.
Can you run AI without sending our data to the cloud?
Yes. Our Sovereign & Offline AI service deploys local language models and on-prem inference servers — air-gapped where needed — so your data stays in your building and in your custody. Cloud is optional, never required.
Where is Ionity Global based and how do I get in touch?
Ionity Global is based in Centurion, South Africa. Reach us at ai@ionity.today or +27 646 999 877, or start a project on the Contact page.
