THE SILENT EYE

As an opening gambit,‘ the problem with aerial surveillance is …’ is up there. But bear with us. Satellites are remote, expensive and bothered by latency and cloud cover; drones are tethered to the charger as operators fret about batteries. Then there’ s the noise.

It’ s why Finnish startup Kelluu’ s offering is so compelling, not least because it resembles the kind of space-age ships that are stalwarts of science fiction. In reality, the autonomous, hydrogen-powered airships are a smart way of delivering accurate, large-scale aerial data for defense, infrastructure and environmental use.

A lack of this kind of data impacts situational awareness and decision making for organisations. Kelluu’ s silent, emission-free solution provides centimetre-level data for real-time digital twins of the physical world to combat this. Not a bad way to rewrite the US $ 20bn surveillance market.