The Unified Energy-Data Mesh: Co-Routing Power and Information Through a Single Deterministic Fabric

The Meridian mesh already carries two kinds of traffic. The first is energy: RF bursts routed hop-by-hop from source nodes to destination devices. The second is data: LINKSTATEUPDATE messages, NODEANNOUNCE broadcasts, EBF delivery confirmations, Guardian Security authentication exchanges, and Lume-X cross-layer monitoring packets. These control-plane messages are structured, addressed, routed information flowing across the same physical nodes as the energy they govern. The Meridian mesh is already a unified energy-data fabric. It just has not been formally recognized as one. This paper formalizes the co-routing architecture of the Meridian mesh — the simultaneous routing of energy and data through the same physical node infrastructure under a shared addressing and governance framework. I define the Unified Energy-Data Mesh (UEDM) as a formal architecture in which the same addressed nodes, topology-aware routing fabric, and Trust Layer identity substrate serve both energy delivery and data communication simultaneously. I define the co-routing arbitration rules governing how energy bursts and data packets share TDMA capacity without conflict. I define the UEDM addressing scheme unifying energy delivery addresses (EIP) and data communication addresses under the same 128-bit namespace. I show that the UEDM collapses two infrastructure problems — power delivery and device communication — into one, enabling a class of self-sustaining autonomous devices that power themselves and communicate through the same wireless fabric. I propose the UEDM as the convergence point of the Energy Internet and the Trust Layer communication infrastructure: a single fabric that routes both resources and information under a unified governance framework, providing the complete infrastructure substrate for autonomous physical systems operating in the Deterministic Infrastructure paradigm. Keywords: unified energy-data mesh, co-routing, wireless power and communication, SWIPT, Meridian, deterministic infrastructure, TDMA co-scheduling, ambient IoT, self-sustaining networks, simultaneous wireless information and power transfer Protected under U. S. Provisional Patent Application No. 64/032, 339, Filed April 7, 2026.