A Personal Awareness Layer for Drone Defense
Wearable sensing designed to give patrol personnel earlier notice of nearby drones.
Two sensors per soldier. No fixed infrastructure. No active emissions.
The gap
Low-cost drones increasingly threaten patrol personnel and security forces at close range. Installation sensors protect airspace, but do not follow personnel operating at the patrol edge.
What we are building
AERIUP is developing a hands-free wearable two-sensor acoustic system for close-range drone cueing. The system is designed to extend layered drone defense to the individual operator and provide a few additional seconds for orientation and response.
Early results
Initial live-drone testing showed measurable directional lag at roughly 100 meters. The result supports the core concept: a minimal two-sensor setup with signal processing can produce useful left-right cueing.
Initial operational focus
AERIUP’s initial focus is security forces perimeter patrol operations, especially in known terrain, recurring patrol routes, and night or reduced-visibility conditions where simple audible cues fit normal patrol workload and equipment practices.
Development path
Current development is focused on building the first wearable sensing prototype, collecting on-body live-drone data across representative patrol environments, and refining cueing logic and packaging toward a fieldable prototype.
Contact
For operational discussions, technical collaboration, prototype evaluation, or early pilot interest:
James Lakings
Founder and CEO
j.lakings@aeriup.com