SvitovydPassive, camera-only drone detection.
Autonomous drones fly by sight and emit no radio signal. Svitovyd sees them anyway: a low-cost 360° camera and the CCTV you already own, feeding edge software that spots drones and reports where they are.
The gap cameras close
The usual counter-drone sensors were built for drones that talk to a pilot or are big enough to reflect radar. The new threat is neither.
Nothing to hear
An autonomous drone navigates by its own camera. With no control link and no video downlink, there is no radio signal to detect.
Too small, too slow
Small, slow targets are hard for radar to separate from clutter, birds and the ground.
If it can see, so can we
A drone that flies by sight has to be visible. Svitovyd watches the sky passively, emits nothing and cannot be jammed.
How it works
Cameras at the edge, one shared node to put the pieces together.
Watch
The low-cost 360° Svitovyd Camera covers the whole horizon. Existing CCTV cameras join the same network.
Detect
Edge software on each camera spots drones and rejects birds and clouds.
Point
Every detection is reported as a direction: bearing and elevation from that camera.
Triangulate
A shared node combines directions from several cameras into range, height and speed.
drone trial
Svitovyd has been field-tested at a US Navy drone trial, with Svitovyd Cameras recording and detecting live drone flights in the field.
The Svitovyd Camera
Four wide-angle cameras and an NVIDIA edge GPU in one compact, 3D-printed unit assembled with screws only, so it can be serviced in the field with hand tools.
Because detection runs on the unit, only detections leave it, not video. The same software also runs on feeds from CCTV cameras already on site.
- Sensing
- Passive, visible light only
- Coverage
- 360° horizon per unit
- Cameras
- 4 × wide-angle, plus existing CCTV
- Compute
- NVIDIA edge GPU
- Output
- Direction per camera; range, height and speed from the shared node
- Calibration
- Star-based, per camera
Technology
Built on proven robotics and edge-AI tooling.
Why “Svitovyd”
Svitovyd is a figure from Slavic tradition, depicted with four faces so that he looks in every direction at once. One watcher, all horizons. That is the design of the camera: four lenses, one view of the whole sky.
Talk to us
Interested in a pilot deployment, a field trial, or running Svitovyd on your existing cameras? Send us a note.
valentyn.stadnytskyi@svitovyd.com