Like many other things in the legacy of aviation, NUAIR’s success comes from a system of systems. A team of industry-leading products and solutions in their own right, the NUAIR Alliance comes together to enable the NUAIR Center of Excellence – headquarters of Advanced Air Mobility in Central New York and influencing the Next generation of aviation around the globe. Hidden Level integrates Airspace Monitoring Service (AMS) into the Alliance for drone detection and visibility – a critical element of airspace security and integration. In this blog, we’ve invited the team to introduce themselves…
Can you explain what Hidden Level does as if we knew nothing about it or the aviation market?
Radio Frequency (RF) waves are all around us carrying information from one place to another. Examples would be traditional radio communications, communications between electronic devices, cell phones, radar systems, and in the case of our work with NUAIR, to communicate with drones. Hidden Level believes that RF signals detection, tracking, and analysis is critical for competitive advantage across industries.
We design and manufacture multi-function radio frequency (RF) sensors with passive detection and direction-finding capabilities that, among other use-cases, are used to detect, identify, and track crewed and uncrewed vehicles. This allows us to keep track of all aircraft flying in a particular area to enhance safety and enable new services. For NUAIR we provide Airspace Monitoring as a Service where we are responsible for all the underlying technology and support so NUAIR can focus on the UAS operations mission. In addition to Airspace Monitoring, Hidden Level is a trusted technology provider in the national security market where our technology stands out for being small and lightweight, long-range, passive, and capable of advanced multi-static radar.
What is the history of Hidden Level and how did the organization get started in this space?
Hidden Level was founded in 2018 to bring game-changing, small form factor, RF sensing capabilities to the most challenging use cases in defense and commercial industries. Our team has decades of experience in advance radar, EW systems, RF energy, C-UAS, air traffic management, and multiple federal programs of record.
What are three ways that Hidden Level changes the landscape of our industry?
- Providing affordable airspace monitoring for manned and uncrewed vehicles is a critical challenge facing the advanced air mobility industry today. Hidden Level is proud to play a key role in this effort.
- Our Data as a Service model provides an alternative to acquiring this world-class technology and Hidden Level is the first to do this on a large scale.
- We recognize that this industry and the technology within it is rapidly changing. Through our software-defined sensors and sensing services we can pivot and advance to meet the evolving challenge.
What makes Hidden Level different from other providers in the market?
Our biggest differentiator is that we detect and track all manner of RF signals to solve problems and support decision-making. Airspace awareness and drone detection are popular use-cases, but we are building products and a data platform to address numerous challenges into the future. Within this market, our solution has the capability to blanket entire cities and is highly scalable, whereas most other solutions are point based and have a limited range. Many other solutions are limited to tracking only UAS and more specifically only certain UAS models (i.e. DJI). Our solution not only tracks all models of UAS (including Wi-Fi and DIY), but also other RF signals of interest (i.e. manned aircraft or RF energy).
What is the biggest takeaway you want people reading this to know about Hidden Level?
Hidden Level designs and builds world class sensor technology to harness and analyze RF signals for competitive advantage. Helping Nuair and New York State lead the way in Air Space Mobility is something we are very proud of. Whether we are providing broad airspace awareness solutions, protecting our borders, or enhancing the safety of our troops and first responders, it’s our ability to sense and track valuable, invisible RF signals that will continue to drive our company into the future. You could say that Hidden Level turns RF signals into insights that can change the world.
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