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Optical sensing payloads  ·  Athens, Greece

Space-grade sensing,
brought down to Earth.

REDAR builds lightweight optical payloads that measure greenhouse gases and track moving objects from low-flying drones. Precise, non-intrusive, and built to be affordable.

CH₄ methane   4 ppm range 1–100 m method TDLAS status TRL 4
Technology platform

One optical core. Three missions.

A single modular optical engine, built largely from off-the-shelf components, reconfigured for several jobs. One research effort serves climate, safety and security.

Greenhouse-gas monitoring

Methane and industrial-emission detection using tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS).

4 ppm  ·  1–100 mTRL 4

Chemical gas detection

Hazardous-gas detection for industrial safety and civil protection, sharing the same optical core.

shared coreRoadmap

Object tracking & early warning

Autonomous aerial tracking of moving targets using a frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) technique.

speed + positionTRL 2
Why now

Regulation and sovereignty are converging.

The market is being created by policy and geopolitics at the same time the technology becomes deployable in the field.

REGULATION

Mandatory methane rules

The EU Methane Regulation requires leak detection and repair and operational monitoring, and favours mobile, drone-based sensing.

SOVEREIGNTY

European defence autonomy

Rising airspace threats and sovereign-technology funding are accelerating demand for indigenous detection and surveillance.

CONVERGENCE

Field-ready technology

Compact photonics, drone autonomy and machine learning now move space-grade sensing out of the lab and into operations.

2024
EU Methane Regulation in force
2025
Routine venting & flaring restricted
2027
Monitoring & reporting operational
2030
Scope review & expansion
Markets

One platform, four markets.

The same core serves climate, industry, defence and space, which multiplies the return on a single technology and keeps the whole stack European.

01

Climate & energy

Methane leak detection for oil & gas, plus waste, biogas and environmental monitoring.

02

Industrial safety

Hazardous-gas detection and process-safety monitoring at refineries, plants and terminals.

03

Defence & security

Lightweight, sovereign airborne ISR and counter-drone sensing for European autonomy.

04

Space & observation

Optical payloads for high-altitude and orbital platforms, pursued with industrial partners.

Dual-use core

One platform across climate, safety and security.

Low-cost & agile

Off-the-shelf parts beat bespoke aerospace hardware.

European & sovereign

Indigenous EU sensing for environment and defence.

Drone-native

Mobile, non-intrusive, source-level measurement.

Traction & validation

Backed, contracted, proven in the lab.

4 ppm
Demonstrated

Methane sensitivity proven in the laboratory.

TRL 4
Validated

Greenhouse-gas payload validated in the lab.

ESA
Incubated

ESA BIC Greece, with initial funding secured.

EU
Sovereign

Greek-built, dual-use, European technology.

In the European technology ecosystem ESA BIC Greece National Observatory of Athens Prospective industrial partner HASI si-Cluster · Corallia Elevate Greece
Team

Technical depth meets commercial discipline.

DK

Dr. Dimitrios Kokkinos

Co-founder · CEO / CTO

PhD in optical sensors; instrument design, verification and LIDAR concepts. Former project manager at Airbus. Leads technology and product.

MT

Menelaos Tzagkournis

Co-founder · Business & Finance

A decade in London across investment roles. Leads fundraising, commercial development, partnerships and finance.

Careers

Join the team.

We are seeking an Electronics Engineer to perform a balanced mix of hands-on laboratory work and electronic system design, with a strong focus on signal processing across analog, digital and FPGA platforms.

Electronics Engineer

Athens, Greece

Laboratory responsibilities

  • Set up and configure lab test benches using oscilloscopes, function and arbitrary waveform generators, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers and power supplies.
  • Acquire and analyze signals in the time and frequency domains using FFTs, spectral density and statistical methods.
  • Debug signal-integrity issues including noise, distortion, jitter, grounding and crosstalk.
  • Validate system performance through measurement, calibration and controlled experiments.
  • Document lab setups, procedures and test results clearly and reproducibly.

Design responsibilities

  • Design analog and mixed-signal circuits for signal conditioning (amplifiers, filters, impedance matching, ADC/DAC interfaces).
  • Develop digital signal-processing algorithms (filtering, decimation and interpolation, averaging, FFT-based analysis).
  • Implement real-time signal processing on FPGAs using VHDL, Verilog or SystemVerilog.
  • Design and integrate FPGA interfaces to ADCs, DACs, sensors and high-speed digital links.
  • Support schematic design, component selection and design verification.

Desired skills

  • Oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, logic analyzers and data-acquisition systems.
  • MATLAB, Python (NumPy/SciPy) or LabVIEW for signal analysis and algorithm development.
  • FPGA toolchains and on-chip debugging tools (e.g. ILA, SignalTap).
  • Strong understanding of sampling theory, filtering, clocking and timing.

Let’s measure what matters.

Whether you are investing, evaluating a measurement need, or exploring a partnership, we would like to hear from you.

WEB
www.redar-sensors.com
BASE
Athens, Greece