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// APATE SYSTEMS · ACOUSTIC COUNTER-UAS · US-BUILT

Hears the drones that radio can't see.

SIREN is a self-orienting acoustic sensor network that detects and tracks drones — including fiber-optic FPV drones that emit no radio signal — and never transmits, jams, or engages. Designed and built in the United States.

SIREN sensor head concept render

Concept render — pre-production hardware

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// THE THREAT

RADIO-SILENT

Fiber-optic FPV drones carry their control link on a spool of fiber; there is no RF to detect.

UNJAMMABLE

Every RF jammer and RF detector is blind to them.

AUDIBLE

Motors and props are loud; sound is the signal that cannot be turned off.

// HOW IT WORKS
01 // LISTEN

A 4-microphone sensor head

Weatherproof, self-orienting via its own IMU.

02 // CLASSIFY

A 7,000-parameter neural network

Runs on the node. No cloud, no raw audio leaves the device.

03 // LOCATE

Each node reports a bearing

Two nodes cross-fix a position, three or more track it.

04 // ALERT

The watch station shows bearings, tracks and node health

On a live map, and pushes alerts to the operator.

LIVE PICTURE (SIMULATION)SIMULATION
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EVENT LOG
// awaiting events...
// VARIANTS
S1 SENTRY concept render

Concept render — pre-production hardware

// S1 SENTRYAUTONOMOUS

S1 SENTRY

  • —Battery + 30 W solar (indefinite runtime March–October at mid-latitudes, estimated)
  • —LoRa mesh uplink with AES-256 + per-node authentication
  • —GPS position + IMU heading
  • —1.5 m mast with ground spike
  • —NEMA 4X body
  • —Sub-$500 in parts per node at prototype quantity
F1 FIXED concept render

Concept render — pre-production hardware

// F1 FIXEDPOE

F1 FIXED

  • —One Ethernet cable for power and data
  • —Same sensor head on a wall/pole bracket
  • —No battery or solar
  • —Direct encrypted link to the station
  • —Sub-$300 parts
// HOW IT'S BUILT
Exploded SIREN sensor head concept render

Concept render — pre-production hardware

01

4-MIC MEMS ARRAY

On-board DSP; raw 16 kHz multichannel processing.

02

9-AXIS IMU

Self-orientation for a bearing you can trust.

03

SEALED PUCK

120 mm weather-sealed body with ePTFE membranes and O-ring.

04

MAST SOCKET

25.4 mm socket for fast placement on a mast or bracket.

// NETWORK, NOT TOWER

Coverage that hands off.

Nodes share bearings over a low-bandwidth mesh. Tracks are seeded by bearing and refined by time-difference across nodes. As the target moves, the track hands off node-to-node without breaking the operator's picture.

Distributed sensing. Graceful handoff. No single tower to fail.

Concept render — pre-production hardware

// USE CASES

Forward operating base

Perimeter coverage from solar-powered S1 nodes on masts. Battery-only for short deployments; solar for weeks of unattended watch.

S1 SENTRY

Airfield perimeter

F1 fixed nodes on fence poles watch the approach and overrun. PoE means no batteries to swap — wire once and leave it.

F1 FIXED

Stadium & major event

Temporary deployment on light poles around a bowl. S1 nodes go up in minutes and self-orient without surveying.

F1 FIXED

Port & energy site

Mixed S1 and F1 nodes across a quay and tank farm. One console covers the waterfront, the berths and the tank dike.

S1 + F1
// HONEST NUMBERS
1.2°
Mean bearing error at 10 dB SNR
SIMULATED
81.7%
Recall on real labeled drone audio, rule-based baseline
MEASURED
0
Field hours — measured detection range will be published when we have it
AS OF SEP 2026
// STATUSFIELD-TESTEDSIMULATION-VALIDATEDIN DESIGNSIREN → SIMULATION-VALIDATED

PASSIVE BY DESIGN

Nothing we ship transmits at, jams or engages anything.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

Nodes never store or transmit raw audio; only 100-byte events.

US-BUILT

Designed and assembled in the United States, NDAA-conscious bill of materials.