Perception systems
PANOPTES is a helmet- and glasses-mounted system. It shows the soldier one quiet heads-up display and saves every sound and encounter along the way.
Perception for the soldier on foot.
MTIVE Industries is a defense technology company. We build AI-powered perception systems that help the dismounted soldier take more calculated steps in a fight.
What we do
We help soldiers take more calculated steps in a fight.
A soldier on foot can only see and hear so far, and can't remember everything that happened. MTIVE builds AI that reads camera, thermal, motion and radar data, shows the soldier only what matters, and keeps a record of every sound and encounter. The decisions stay with the soldier.
Perception AI
ARGUS is MTIVE's onboard AI. It finds people in the camera, thermal, motion and radar data and decides which are worth showing the soldier.
Made for people on foot
ARGUS is trained to find people from a worn camera at eye level, the view a soldier on foot actually has.
Our main product
PANOPTES helps the soldier take more calculated steps in a fight.
PANOPTES is a helmet- and glasses-mounted perception system for the dismounted soldier. It points out the people around them as they move, and saves every sound and encounter they go through, so each next step can build on what already happened.
Drag to compare · Low-light footage, ARGUS v1
The naked eye sees shadows. PANOPTES sees who is in them.
Drag the handle across the scene. To its left is what the eye picks up in the dark, to its right is what reaches the soldier's glasses.
Source footage: "Airsoft inside a prison" by Names Nicco, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7XcAX9JQN8. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), checked 2026-10-30. Overlay (ARGUS detections, grayscale conversion) added by MTIVE. Not endorsed by the original author.
Sensors on the head, compute on the back.
The helmet and glasses carry the sensors and the display. A compact unit on the back does all the processing. A bracelet on the forearm takes the commands.
Head · Helmet and glasses
4 sensor channels scan the scene from the helmet and glasses.
CH 01Cameras, eye levelCH 02MotionCH 03Thermal, always onCH 04UWB radar, front-facing
Back · Processing unit
Onboard AI turns raw returns into a few clear marks.
ARGUS, MTIVE's perception AI, detects people, fuses the 4 channels and decides which returns are worth interrupting the soldier's view.
All processing on the onboard unit · No cloud · No reach-back link
Glasses · Heads-up display
The glasses show only what is worth the soldier's attention.
Solid boxes for confirmed detections, dashed boxes for unconfirmed signals. Nothing else reaches the glass.
Forearm · EMG bracelet
A forearm bracelet turns muscle signals into commands.
Gestures go to the processing unit. No voice, no buttons, hands stay on the weapon.
The display stays quiet until it matters.
Every channel scans the same scene all the time. Open each one to see what it picks up, then compare it with what reaches the soldier's glasses.
CAM · Scanning
MOT · Scanning
IR · Scanning
UWB · Scanning
Simulated scene. Illustration, not sensor footage.
View · Heads-up display
What the soldier sees
The scene through the glasses, plus only what the alert layer passes. 3 of 9 returns reach the display.
- ConfirmedPerson at the treelineCamera and thermal agree.
- UnconfirmedMovement in the grassMotion channel only.
- UnconfirmedBreathing behind the wallRadar only.
- Held back6 other returnsStill in the scan, off the display.
Solid box. Confirmed by more than 1 sensor.
Dashed box. Unconfirmed, a single channel only.
CH 01 · CAM
Cameras
Eye-level cameras see from the soldier's own point of view. ARGUS, the onboard perception AI, finds people in the frame.
- ConfirmedPerson at the treelineThermal agrees, so the box is solid.
CH 02 · MOT
Motion
Catches movement too slow or too small for the human eye, such as a body moving through grass.
- UnconfirmedMovement in the grassNo other channel agrees, so the box is dashed.
- Held back2 other returnsStill in the scan, off the display.
CH 03 · IR
Thermal
Always on and scanned continuously, including while the thermal image is not on the display.
- ConfirmedBody heat at the treelineMatches the camera detection.
- Held back2 other returnsStill in the scan, off the display.
CH 04 · UWB
UWB radar
Front-facing, directional and aligned with the cameras. Detects presence and breathing through walls.
- UnconfirmedBreathing behind the wallRadar only, so the box is dashed.
- Held back1 other returnStill in the scan, off the display.
ARGUS runs in real time and rarely raises a false alarm.
Bench figures for the current model. Full test conditions and accuracy results are shared in briefings.
<5ms
Per camera frame
Bench measurement on a desktop GPU.
0.029
False boxes per empty frame
Under the 0.04 limit MTIVE set for the model.
~70%
Barely-visible people found
Nearly 7 in 10 people the eye can hardly pick out.
Control with both hands on the weapon.
An EMG bracelet on the forearm reads muscle signals as gestures. There is nothing to press and nothing to say out loud.
0
Buttons
Nothing to find or press.
0
Voice commands
Nothing to say out loud.
2
Hands on the weapon
Gestures are read at the forearm.
1
Bracelet
Muscle signals from the forearm become commands.
Who we are
Built for the person on the ground.
MTIVE Industries is a defense technology company. These are the people who lead it.
ARGUS is made completely from scratch and optimised for this mission.
Every model is trained on data MTIVE owns, with no borrowed pretrained weights. Allied and sovereign customers get a stack with no foreign licensing strings and no export-control exposure.
Everything runs on the soldier's own equipment.
All processing happens in the compact unit worn on the back. PANOPTES needs no cloud and no reach-back link to work.
PANOPTES informs the operator and never decides for them.
Human-in-the-loop by design. It sharpens the operator's judgement and leaves every decision with the person wearing it.
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