Life Without Mines
DreamSensor Denmark ApS is a drone-mounted sensor system designed to increase minefield survey coverage from around 10 m² a day manually to up to 10,000 m² a day using an aerial platform, developed with the Department of Physics at Odesa Polytechnic.
DreamSensor Pitch Deck
The full investor presentation: the problem, the technology, the market and the roadmap.
Ukraine's minefields, by the numbers
Already mined, more than Denmark, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Moldova and Belgium combined
Needed to fully clear Ukraine of mines and other unexploded ordnance at the current pace
Coverage from manual survey alone, searching for plastic mines and PFM-1 ("petal") mines
Drone plus sensor: 10,000 m² a day
DreamSensor combines a carrier drone, software, cameras, a metal detector, a magnetometer and a multispectral camera with the DreamSensor unit itself, which is designed to detect explosive objects directly. Together, they are designed to turn a sapper's manual survey into an aerial one, increasing coverage from roughly 10 m² a day to up to 10,000 m² a day.
How DreamSensor works
Developed jointly with the Department of Physics at Odesa Polytechnic, DreamSensor registers different types of response to safe-level neutron and gamma radiation exposure, then determines the concentration ratio of the chemical elements H:C:N:O contained in each explosive substance, calculating both the explosive substance and the type of unexploded ordnance. The result is delivered as an augmented-reality application that displays detected ordnance directly on the operator's device, geolocated in the field.
What it does
- Aerial detection of landmines and UXOs, targeting up to 1,000× the coverage rate of manual survey once the full system reaches field-validated maturity
- Explosive-type classification via neutron/gamma response and H:C:N:O ratio analysis
- Augmented-reality display of detected ordnance, geolocated for follow-up clearance
Technology maturity
The 1,000× figure is a system-level design target, not yet a field-proven result: it depends on the core explosive-detection sensor, currently TRL 4 and validated only in laboratory conditions. The carrier drone and its supporting sensors (metal detector, magnetometer, multispectral camera) are considerably further along.
- Carrier drone and software: complete and ready
- Multi-zone metal detector, magnetometer and multispectral-camera system: TRL 7
- DreamSensor core sensor: TRL 4, validated in laboratory conditions
Beyond demining
- Agrochemical soil analysis
- Soil carbon analysis
- Mineral exploration
- Search and rescue: locating people trapped under rubble
A market measured in billions, not millions
Estimated cost of fully demining Ukraine (World Bank)
Estimated cost of technical minefield survey alone (Kyiv School of Economics)
Estimated near-term market demand for DreamSensor's product specifically
From laboratory validation to production
Technology validated in laboratory conditions (TRL 4). $230,000 invested to date.
Research & development (~$300,000 required)
Prototyping and field tests
Combat tests, product finalisation, mass-production setup, state certification (~$300,000 required)
Product launch and sales, targeting 10 units/month
Built by operators, engineers and physicists
Sergei
Sapper Battalion Commander; main consultant, tester and drone user
Oleg
Project manager, 10 years of CEO experience
Alexander
Designer, electronics engineer, drone assembly/control specialist, 20 years of experience
Oleg
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Physics, Odesa Polytechnic; author of the DreamSensor idea
Yuri
Programmer-developer, 15 years of experience
Partners and supporters
BRAVE1 (Ukrainian Defense Innovations), Brave Inventors, the Odesa Regional Development Agency, DataArt, Defence Builder, KSE Business (Kyiv School of Economics), Dignitas, SOTY Marketing Agency, Odesa Polytechnic University, the National Research Foundation of Ukraine, U-NATION, IT Arena, and Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science.
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