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OpenWorks Engineering develops world-leading intelligent optics for counter-UAS (C-UAS), air defence, and surveillance applications. The company's product portfolio includes VISION FLEX modular camera systems for tracking and classification, VISION PACE for stabilised tracking and targeting on the move, VISION GUARD for deployable covert surveillance, and SKYWALL PATROL, a handheld system that physically captures…

High Tech · Drones, · Prudhoe, United Kingdom · EST 2015

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OpenWorks Engineering develops world-leading intelligent optics for counter-UAS (C-UAS), air defence, and surveillance applications. The company's product portfolio includes VISION FLEX modular camera systems for tracking and classification, VISION PACE for stabilised tracking and targeting on the move, VISION GUARD for deployable covert surveillance, and SKYWALL PATROL, a handheld system that physically captures drones with smart projectiles. SkyWall has been deployed worldwide since 2016, protecting heads of state including royalty and US presidents. OpenWorks provides 360-degree vision technology with AI classification and motion control modules for counter-UAS, serving military, policing, and critical national infrastructure sectors with a common interface for third-party detector integration. Founded in 2015, headquartered in Prudhoe, United Kingdom.

Business model

Drones > Counter Drone Systems,

Security & Surveillance Technology > PIDAS > Counter-Drone System,

Military Tech > Non Combat Systems > Countermeasure Solutions > Anti Drone > Detection & Disruption

Team background

College Wise > University of Cambridge

Institutional investors

Adderstone GroupNorthumberlandsmallbusinessTerry CourtneyAlexander WilkinsonTony TrappNeil ArmstrongIan BaggettAndy ScaifeDaniel LevyLevy StuartLewis Birchenough

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