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A man-made substance created with the express purpose of exhibiting qualities not found in nature, such as the capacity to control electromagnetic radiation in novel ways. The company’s radar beam is guided by a metamaterial antenna, which modifies its physical composition.
Any substance created to have a property that is not present in naturally existing materials is referred to as a metamaterial.
The words “metamaterial” and “Materia” come from the Greek words “meta,” which means beyond, and “Materia,” which means matter or material. They are constructed using multi-element assemblies comprised of composite materials like metals and polymers.
The Global Metamaterial radar market accounted for $XX Billion in 2021 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2022 to 2030.
Hundreds of clients and applications from numerous industries have influenced the development of Echo Shield.
The radar’s architecture is based on Ecodyne’s proprietary metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA) radars, which have a history of success in the field and are used for a variety of purposes, including counter-UAS, base and border security, force protection, critical infrastructure security, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, UAV detect and avoid, and autonomous ground vehicles.
Echo Shield is a pulse-Doppler cognitive 4D radar that blends real-time dynamic waveform synthesis with ESA beamforming to achieve sub-degree tracking precision on hundreds of objects within a large 3D field of view.
The cognitive search capabilities of Echo Shield incorporate onboard or offboard data repositories to modify and divert radar resources as needed to provide the appropriate information at the appropriate time.
Echo Shield’s SDK offers deep integration and multi-sensor fusion, whether exploiting the radar’s considerable onboard processing capabilities or ingesting range-doppler spectrograms into offboard compute.
To give improved radar performance, Echo Shield is intended to be software-optimized to mission profiles that match potent dynamic radar resources with specific customer needs.
The first software release prioritizes a counter-UAS mission based on market demand and is excellent at spotting, tracking, and classifying any unmanned aircraft, including low, sluggish, and small drones even in crowded urban areas. In dozens of subsequent releases, radar resources will be matched with customer demand.
The limited release of Echodyne Corp’s metamaterials electronically scanning array (MESA) for radar applications was announced. With a cost and weight reduction of up to 10 times and a reduction in antenna area of up to 5 or more times over conventional electronically scanned arrays, Echodyne’s MESA greatly simplifies the deployment of high performance radar.
The MESA X-EVU from Echodyne is an electronically scanning array with ultra-low C-SWAP (cost, size, weight, and power) and ultra-fast beam steering (sub-microsecond). It may be incorporated into new or existing radar systems.
Smart materials and photonics startup Metamaterial Technologies Inc. reported that its institutional “Series A” equity financing, which was headed by Radar Capital Inc. with participation from Innovacorp and other investors, has been completed.
With the money raised, MTI will be able to commercialize its metaAIRTM aerospace laser protection solution and create production tools for its smart material platform technology.
MTI’s Lamda Guard business and Airbus have partnered to test and modify metaAIR, a flexible metamaterial optical filter designed to shield eyes from dangerous laser beams directed at aircraft. MTI purchased Rolith Inc., a Silicon Valley-based nanofabrication startup, in order to hasten the development of its large-scale optical metamaterial technologies.
The Kirkland, Washington-based Echodyne Corporation has received funding from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) to continue vital research and development on novel radar systems that use metamaterials.
Through a Phase 5 Other Transaction Agreement with S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program, DHS provided the funding (SVIP).
The development of a cutting-edge Metamaterials Electronically Scanning Array (MESA) radar for use in a range of border security applications was the subject of earlier Echodyne collaborations with SVIP. With substantially lower costs, size, weight, and power, MESA creates a new architecture for entirely electronic scanning radar systems with excellent fidelity and quick directional shifts.
In order to develop intelligent radars for driverless vehicles, Hyundai CRADLE, the corporate entrepreneurship and open innovation arm of Hyundai Motor Co., announced that it is investing in Metawave Corp.
