Three in production · shipping Q4 2026
The instruments.
Five instruments: the Lookout and Defender optical sensors, the Link that carries what they see out of the landscape, and, in development for 2027–28, the bio-acoustic Listener and the combined Survey Unit. Each runs its detection models on the device and sends the conclusion first, deciding for itself what has to travel now and what can wait, which is what makes them deployable where there is no cellular coverage, no mains power, and no maintenance visit for a year.
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To see · Protected areas
Landseed Lookout
A low-power AI alert optical sensor for protected areas. Earlier versions of this system have run in the Serengeti, and since in six further countries.
A conventional trail camera stores every frame until someone collects the card. The Lookout classifies on the device instead, and sends the conclusion first: a class, a confidence, a station, a time. The photograph follows when the sighting warrants one and the link can carry it. Rangers get a message in seconds rather than a memory card weeks later.
It is tuned narrow: one or two classes, such as humans, vehicles or a single conflict species, running on inexpensive vision hardware. That keeps the unit cheap enough to deploy across a whole landscape rather than at a few chosen points.
- ≈ $200per unit
- Over a yearon one battery
- Secondsfrom sighting to alert
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To see · The park boundary
Landseed Defender
A multi-species AI optical sensor for the park boundary. It gives rangers and village protection units advance warning when large or dangerous animals move toward settlements.
At the boundary the constraint is time, not detection. A herd approaching a settlement at dusk is already visible; what matters is how much warning the people there get. Defender is built to widen that margin.
It carries a larger sensor, a dedicated vision processor and a second radio, and recognises many species and threat classes in a single detector. One unit at the village edge therefore does not need retasking as the season changes.
- ≈ $340per unit
- 8–10 classesin one detector
- Over a yearon one battery
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To connect · The hub
Landseed Link
Most protected areas have no cellular coverage. The Link collects long-range radio from many sensors and forwards it over whichever link the site has, cell, ethernet or satellite.
This unit determines whether a deployment is viable at all. Sensors within cellular coverage transmit directly and need no hub. Beyond it, the majority of protected land, the Link is the bridge. It remains in deep sleep until a sensor calls, then forwards the traffic.
Because many sensors share one hub, the connectivity cost falls to a single subscription per landscape rather than one per sensor. It also separates placement from coverage: sensors can sit under canopy where the animals are, while the hub is sited where the sky is open.
- ≈ $150per unit, target
- One hubmany sensors
- Solarno mains needed
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To listen · Bio-acoustics
Landseed Listener In R&D
A passive bio-acoustic monitor. The forest is louder than it looks, and the Listener hears what a camera never frames: the vocal species that move through cover, at night, out of any line of sight.
An optical sensor needs its subject in frame. Most of what lives in a forest never obliges. The Listener runs always-on with no trigger, recognises calls on the device, and reports the species rather than the recording.
Three or more units hearing the same call place the animal between them. That turns presence and absence into distance, and calling rates into density, the same measurement the optical units produce, for the species they cannot see.
- $100per unit, target
- 24/7passive listening
- 3+ unitstriangulate a call
In development for 2027–28. Specification not yet fixed; figures are targets, not measurements.
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To see & listen · Biodiversity
Landseed Survey Unit In R&D
A combined optical and acoustic unit for biodiversity survey work, Defender optics carrying species models built for one landscape, joined to the Listener's acoustic pod.
Alerting and surveying want opposite things. An alert must arrive in seconds and can afford to know only a few classes. A survey can wait weeks, and needs to tell one species from another precisely. The Survey Unit is built for the second case.
Choose the few indicator species that say the most about a landscape, and it watches and listens for exactly those. Data comes home over Wi-Fi on patrol or on the card, so no airtime is needed, and density falls out of re-identification and triangulation.
- Custombuilt per landscape
- Weeksnot seconds
- No airtimeWi-Fi or microSD
In development for 2027–28. Specification not yet fixed; builds are bespoke and priced per deployment.
What happens to the signal.
An instrument in the field produces a conclusion rather than a photograph: a class, a confidence, a station, a timestamp. On its own that is a line in a log. It becomes useful when every unit across a landscape reports into one place that can rank it, map it, route it to the right phone, and hold it as evidence.
That place is Landseed AI, the management layer. From a detection in the field to a decision on a phone takes about thirty seconds.
Three instruments are in production and ship in Q4 2026. The Listener and the Survey Unit are shown above as in development for 2027–28; their specifications are not fixed and their figures are targets. A handheld Mobile unit is also in development and is not shown.