At a recent company meeting, our team discussed how to position MatrixSpace. While most people know us as a highly-portable radar manufacturer, we believe we are equally an enterprise software platform company.  

This perspective informs the way we design and develop our products. Modern enterprise systems software is mission critical, operations-oriented, secure and seamlessly integrated. When we start with this approach, it’s much easier to make our applications accessible to other services and software systems, and simplify the integration into our customers’ existing ecosystems.  

MatrixSpace designs every product with this philosophy in mind—from initial concept through production and release. This approach gives us precise control over our radar systems, and enables multiple sensors, components, and software packages to interoperate seamlessly. It also supports straightforward sensor interconnection and rapid integration with a wide ecosystem of applications through open APIs.  

Key 3rd Party Integrations

The MatrixSpace sensor API allows other systems to consume our radar system data for visualization in situational awareness applications. The API sends information about detections, as well as the telemetry details associated with each detection, and control of radar devices. Developers can use our documentation to connect apps via these APIs to enrich them with MatrixSpace data. Current protocols include:

• REST

• Websockets

• MQTT

• ZeroMQ

MatrixSpace sensor API is currently integrated with these applications and services:

• (A)TAK – Our TAK integration facilitates simultaneous visibility to sensor detections across all connected personnel. For military purposes, this allows forward-deployed assets using the MatrixSpace Expeditionary Kit to immediately share hostile drone detections with the rest of their teams.  

• NINJA – The U.S. Air Force sponsored NINJA (Negation of Improvised Non-State Joint Aerial) project for hostile small drone defense (C-UAS) is deployed in over 565 systems worldwide. NINJA-based systems are now integrated for use with MatrixSpace sensors for UAS threat (dark drone) detection.  

• ARES Security AVERT MPO – ARES Security AVERT MPO seamlessly correlates detections, tracks and signals from multiple sensors into a common operating picture. AVERT MPO fuses MatrixSpace radar sensor data with camera, thermal, human and other inputs, empowering security operators with superior situational awareness.

• DroneSense – DroneSense is a leading provider of remote drone operations software. MatrixSpace radar data feeds support real-time airspace awareness allowing public safety operators to keep their drones safely separated from other low-flying aircraft.  

• Kongsberg IRIS Terminal – The IRIS platform from Kongsberg Geospatial provides remote drone operators airspace visualization and air safety alerting that simplifies safe BVLOS operations. MatrixSpace radar sensors push critical airspace telemetry data to IRIS.  

• L3Harris UAS TRACER – UAS TRACER from L3Harris provides advanced drone identification and decision support for automating UAS countermeasures in highly contested environments. Using the MatrixSpace sensor API, UAS TRACER cues optical camera targeting and computer vision-based threat analysis based on MatrixSpace radar detections.  

• Sagetech Avionics – Sagetech’s onboard ACAS DAA computer enables additional safety for drones flying BVLOS. MatrixSpace onboard radar sensors provide intruder detection telemetry for safe avoidance guided by Sagetech Avionics.  

While MatrixSpace sensor API powers a broad range of applications, more are coming online soon. If you want to build an application for MatrixSpace sensors, talk to us. Our integration experts can help you add precision sensing to enhance your application—sometimes in as little as a few minutes!  

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