Passive 3D drone sensor

See the shape of everything below the drone.

VyzAI is a drone sensor that measures the 3D shape of every surface it sees, passively, through one lens. On the drone it detects people and vehicles, gives each an ID, and ranges and places them on a map, fully passively.

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Passive range of 60 to 150 m, shown in flight.

01 Mission view

Every person and vehicle gets an ID, a class and a range.

Computed on the drone. This view is an illustration; the frames that follow are from the October flights.

A frame from the VyzAI control app in flight. Three cars and a walking person, each labelled with a class, an ID, a range and a velocity.

02 From the flight

The control app, in flight.

A frame from the October flights, labelled live.

An aerial frame from the flight with thirteen labelled objects: people, cars and trucks.

03 From the flight

13 objects labelled in one frame.

A drone-centred radar plot from the control app, with object IDs placed by range and bearing.

04 From the flight

Every ID, placed around the aircraft.

Built from the same detections.

05 Why shape matters

Shape picks out what color misses.

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Color view: cars parked under a tree, partly hidden by its canopy.
Shape view of the same scene: the car bodies stand out through the canopy.
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Vehicles under tree canopy.
Color view: a building shadow lies dark across the pavement.
Shape view of the same scene: the ground reads evenly through the shadow.
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Ground through shadow.
Color view: an aerial parking lot where grey cars blend into grey asphalt.
Shape view of the same lot: each car body separates from the flat ground.
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Same-color vehicles on same-color ground.
The VyzAI module, a small black box with a lens, mounted on a drone arm. The test hexacopter on a stand with the module mounted beneath it.

06 The module

One self‑contained box.

Its own processing, positioning, power and storage. It runs independently of the airframe. Daylight to low light, fully passive with no illuminator.

70 68 97 mm 74° field of view
Sensor
12 MP global shutter, color and shape
Lens
35 mm, 74° field of view
Size
70 × 68 × 97 mm
Positioning
IMU with GNSS, INS and RTK
Power
Two swappable 18650 cells
Storage
2 TB on board

Built on Spatial Phase Imaging, a patented technology with decades of development behind it.

07 Flown and measured, October 2026

Two test flights. Every number computed on the unit.

Flown on a commercial hexacopter.

61 to 147 m

Passive range

To people and vehicles, flying 24 to 35 m above ground.

13

Objects in one frame

Own height

No barometer

The unit measures its own height above ground every frame. Held for 1,691 frames in flight.

10 s

One level pass

Sets the scale for every distance.

08 In development

Glare, shadow, night and accuracy work.

  1. 01

    Glare and reflection removal

    Running in real time on a ground-vehicle version, moving to the drone next.

    A dashcam frame from the ground-vehicle version, plain on the left and with glare reduced on the right.

  2. 02

    Shadow suppression

  3. 03

    Night operation in motion

  4. 04

    Accuracy benchmarks against surveyed ground points

09 Mission profiles

Who it’s for.

01

Drone and UGV makers

A self-contained payload with its own power, positioning and storage.

02

Integrators

ID, class and range for every detection, computed on board.

03

Government agencies

Passive ISR, force protection and border security. Demonstrations and evaluation units available.

04

Direct buyers

Public safety, security and inspection teams.

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