3D vision fordrone defense.
- Cam-Lidar lidar, radar, camera and thermal, fusedfused tracking
- UDL-64 low-cost acoustic coveragelow-cost acoustic
From the inventor of 3D lidar
Cam-Lidar fuses state-of-the-art lidar with radar, cameras and thermal in one unit. It finds a drone, identifies it the same way every time and holds the track, day or night. UDL-64 adds acoustic coverage cheap enough to put everywhere, and every unit you network adds range and certainty.
- 4-in-1
- Lidar · radar · camera · thermal
- 60 fps
- Fused tracking
- ~Mach 1
- Target speed
- 64 mics
- Low-cost acoustic
In 2005, David Hall built the spinning lidar that let cars see the road. The next problem is overhead: small, fast, cheap drones that are hard to see, hard to identify and harder to follow.
Cam-Lidar · Sensor-fusion suite
Radar finds it. Lidar knows what it is.
Cam-Lidar fuses a state-of-the-art lidar with radar, cameras and thermal in one unit. Each sensor covers what the others can’t, and AI turns them into one track that predicts where the drone goes next.
Radar
Finds it
Reaches far, in any weather, and cues the other sensors.
Lidar
Resolves it
Far finer resolution than radar: dense 3D points show its shape, its rotors, its span.
Thermal
Sees its heat
Picks out warm motors and batteries against a cold sky, day or night.
Camera
Confirms it
A visual check on what the lidar resolved.
AI
Predicts its path
One fused track, the same ID every time, and where it goes next.
Fig. 1 — One drone, resolved: radar contact, lidar point cloud, heat signature, camera lock, predicted path. The third target is the first drone again, and it gets the same ID.
One unit holds a track more reliably than any single sensor type can.
Lidar’s resolution is far finer than radar’s, so the system can tell what a target is (its shape, its size, its rotors), not just that something is there, and give the same drone the same ID every time it is seen. Thermal adds its heat, day or night. With every sensor checking the others, the track holds.
- 4 in 1
- Lidar, radar, camera and thermal, fused
- 60 fps
- Fused tracking
- ~1 Mach
- Target speed it can follow
- Laptop size
- Smallest targets it tracks
Networked
One unit tracks. A network predicts.
Units share one picture of the sky. Add more and three things grow together.
Fig. 2 — Five units cover a site at night and hand one track across it. Switch to one unit to compare.
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Range
Every unit extends coverage. A drone that leaves one unit’s view is already in the next one’s.
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Reliability
Overlapping units see the target from different angles, so the track survives terrain, clutter and the loss of any one sensor.
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Predictability
More viewpoints give a tighter estimate of where the target goes next, and the same ID across the whole network.
UDL-64 · Low-cost acoustic detection
Cheap enough to put everywhere.
Sixty-four microphones in a 24-inch array, with on-device AI that finds drones by their sound and classifies them in real time. It is built to be extremely low-cost, so you can ring a whole site with them instead of guarding a single spot.
UDL-64 is passive: it transmits nothing, so there is nothing to detect. It doesn’t depend on RF, GPS or daylight, and it has no moving parts. One unit covers about 200 meters; networked units reach about 500.
Fig. 3 — Sound reaches each microphone at a slightly different moment; the array turns that into a direction and a class.
- Low cost
- Built to deploy by the dozen
- 64 mics
- In a 24-inch array
- 200 m
- Detection, single unit
- 500 m
- Detection, networked
CES 2027 · Las Vegas · January 6–9, 2027
Product three launches at CES.
Cam-Lidar and UDL-64 are available to order now. The third Hall Lidar product launches at CES 2027 in Las Vegas. Its name and details come out at the show.
- Opens in
- 57 days
- Dates
- January 6–9, 2027
- Venue
- Las Vegas Convention Center
- Booth
- Announced soon
Layered defense
Hear it. Track it. Catch it.
Each sensor covers what the other can’t, and together they hand off to a capture system built by our sister company.
Velodyne Space- 01
Hear it
Low-cost UDL-64 arrays listen close in, day or night, and are cheap enough to ring a whole site. About 200 m per unit, about 500 m networked.
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Track it
Cam-Lidar fuses lidar, radar, cameras and thermal into one track with a repeatable ID and predicts where it goes next. Network units to extend it.
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Catch it
Our sister company, Velodyne Space, brings it down intact in a net, from up to one kilometer away.
Heritage
From the inventor of 3D lidar.
- 1983David Hall founds Velodyne.
- 2005He invents real-time 3D lidar for the DARPA Grand Challenge.
- 2007Five of the six finishers of the DARPA Urban Challenge see the road with it.
- Nov 2025Hall Lidar launches Cam-Lidar, its first product.
- Apr 2026UDL-64 acoustic drone detection launches.
- Jan 2027A third product launches at CES 2027 in Las Vegas. More ↑
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Ready to order.
For defense, public safety, critical infrastructure and commercial teams. Cam-Lidar and UDL-64 are available to order now.
Sister company: Velodyne Space