A Personal Awareness Layer for Drone Defense.

Two sensors per operator. No fixed infrastructure. No active emissions.

Earlier awareness. Less surprise.

THE GAP

Fixed counter-UAS systems help protect places. Patrols need awareness that moves.

Low-cost drones increasingly threaten personnel operating at the human edge of layered defense, where radar, RF, EO/IR, and installation sensors may not always provide actionable warning to the individual operator in time.

AERIUP is studying whether mobile acoustic sensing can provide useful directional awareness when a drone is close enough that even a few additional seconds may matter.

WHAT WE ARE BUILDING

AERIUP is developing a hands-free two-sensor acoustic wearable designed to provide close-range drone cueing for personnel operating beyond fixed counter-UAS coverage.

The system is intended to turn local acoustic evidence into simple directional awareness, giving the operator a few additional seconds to orient, move, report, warn others, or cue visual search.

In practical terms, this is the final-warning problem: increasing time of awareness before the moment of surprise.

EARLY RESULTS

Initial live-drone testing showed measurable directional lag at roughly 100 meters.

This supports the core concept that a minimal two-sensor setup, combined with signal processing, may produce useful left-right cueing for nearby drones.

INITIAL OPERATIONAL FOCUS

AERIUP is currently studying patrol-edge, installation-security, training, test, and base-defense use cases where body-worn electronics are practical and permitted.

The discovery question is whether mobile acoustic awareness can provide useful warning before the drone becomes obvious or the operator is forced into reaction.

DEVELOPMENT PATH

Current development is focused on wearable prototype build, synchronized dual-channel recording, on-body live-drone data collection, cueing logic, and field validation in representative operating environments.

The longer-term technical path is motion-aware acoustic evidence from wearable nodes: compact local evidence that may support body-relative cueing, confidence scoring, quality assessment, and downstream fusion.

For operational discussions, technical collaboration, prototype evaluation, or early pilot interest:

James Lakings
Founder and CEO
j.lakings@aeriup.com