Zen, C14 and Galaxeye unveil naval tech at Navy's Swavlamban exhibition

Startups pitch cutting-edge tech to the Navy

NEW DELHI: Beyond Sagar Defence's headline-grabbing rise, the Indian Navy's 'Swavlamban' Naval Innovation and Indigenisation Seminar at the Manekshaw Centre became a stage for a wave of homegrown startups offering the force a suite of autonomous and intelligence-gathering tools.

Zen Technologies' networked surface vessel

At the Swavlamban naval exhibition, startup Zen Technologies displayed its autonomous surface vessel prototype — a multirole and networked unmanned craft that can be used for surveillance, fire support, anti-submarine warfare and other naval missions.

C14's modular platform and diver vision

C14 unveiled its Tandav autonomous, modular USV platform and also AquaScan, an AI vision device that can be used by divers for underwater vision. A C14 representative said the Navy has shown interest in its AquaScan and plans to buy it.

Galaxeye's eye from space

Space startup Galaxeye is offering the Navy a satellite-based solution for keeping an eye on hostile or shadow vessels that loiter around in Indian waters.

"Besides wide-area monitoring, night-time and adverse weather monitoring, we are ready to offer a solution to the Navy to detect an unknown or unidentified vessel that is loitering around in the Indian waters from space itself. Our satellite-based system can even provide the entire data or history of that shadow vessel with a click of the mouse,"

Aarav Saexna, forward deployed engineer of Galaxeye, told TOI.