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Vestarax, an RF listening engine.
Vestarax is the RF listening engine inside every Copernix product: a receive chain and the software that makes sense of what it picks up. It listens to the radio spectrum from 1 MHz to 6 GHz without ever transmitting, recognises what it hears and tells you which direction it comes from.
What Vestarax can do
It listens. Then it tells you what it heard, and where.
Listen, never transmit
Receive-only, from 1 MHz to 6 GHz. Vestarax never pings, jams or interrogates a device: it hears what is already on the air.
Hear devices that never announce themselves
Phones on cellular, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, handheld radios, drone control links and Remote ID, aviation distress beacons on 121.5 and 406 MHz, and RF-triggered devices.
Need nothing from the target
The device being found needs no app, no network coverage and no GPS fix. If it transmits within range, Vestarax can hear it.
Point at the source
Two directional antennas resolve one bearing on the emitter: a direction to walk, drive or fly, not just a level on a meter.
Tell one signal from another
AI-assisted classification separates the target from background traffic, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy decoding pick out one device among many. More protocols are coming soon.
Map and log what it hears
Every reading is kept with its position and heading. A route driven or flown becomes a heatmap of where the signal was strongest, and a site keeps a history of what was heard, where and when.
From emission to bearing
A device transmits
A phone reaching for a tower, a radio keyed up, a drone talking to its controller, an RF trigger waiting for a call.
Two antennas hear it
Vestarax listens from 1 MHz to 6 GHz. The pair of antennas resolves one directional bearing on the source.
The engine sorts it
AI-assisted detection separates the target from background traffic, so the operator follows one signal.
The team moves
A bearing on screen. Walk it, fly it or log it.
Any platform
One engine, wherever the search goes.
Vestarax is a compact receive chain and the software that runs it. The same engine goes in a searcher’s hand, a truck, an aircraft or a boat, or onto a fixed station, and it works the same way on each.
Handheld
The Liberandum puts Vestarax in a searcher’s hands, through deep woods and mountain terrain.
The LiberandumVehicles
Driven along a road or a trail, it paints a heatmap of where the signal was strongest, to cover ground fast.
Aircraft and drones
The aerial pod carries it under a Cessna wing or a drone, and it has been validated in flight.
The aerial podBoats
Aboard a boat, along shorelines, across lakes and on open water, where the roads end and coverage often does too.
Stations
Sentinel stations will keep watch over a site day and night: pipeline intrusion monitoring, for example, or a utility, a railway or a port.
Sentinel, coming soonNo cell tower. No satellite. No internet.
Vestarax listens, classifies and gives the bearing on board. It needs no outside network to find a signal, so it works at sea, deep in the backcountry, along a remote pipeline, or where the networks are down.
SIGINT + COMINT
One engine hears the signal and reads it.
Signal intelligence finds what is on the air. Communications intelligence tells you which device is talking. Vestarax runs both at once and adds a bearing, so the team gets one answer: that device, that way.
What is on the air
Which device is talking
- WI-FIPixel_Marc · ch 6−61 dBm
- BLEGalaxy Buds−68 dBm
- WI-FIChalet_Lavoie · ch 1−74 dBm
- BLEFind My tag−81 dBm
That device, that way
What the two layers solve together
Dozens of access points and phones share one band. SIGINT sees them all; COMINT singles out the one you are after.
SIGINT hears its control link even when it broadcasts no identity, and Vestarax gives a bearing on it.
Orion learns the known transmitters and sets them aside, so a new one stands out.
Questions we get
Can Vestarax find a phone that has no cell coverage?
Yes. Vestarax listens to what the phone itself transmits, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi included, so it works deep in the backcountry, where there is no network at all.
Can it single out one specific device?
Yes. Vestarax decodes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy to pick out one device among many, and AI-assisted classification separates the target from background traffic. More protocols are coming soon.
Does it detect drones?
Yes. It hears drone control links and Remote ID broadcasts, and gives a bearing on the control link, even when the drone sends no Remote ID.
Does it stay silent toward the device it is looking for?
Yes. Vestarax only listens. It never pings, jams or interrogates its target: it hears it, sorts it from the background and gives the operator its direction.
Can we test it before buying?
Yes, through a paid field trial, with a reduced rate for non-profit and volunteer teams. Two Copernix staff come on site for setup, training and a blind test under protocol PVT-002, with a witness and every miss reported. Travel is quoted as a fixed package.
Put it on your terrain.
Paid field trials, with two Copernix staff on site.