About Aardvark Sensing

Who We Are

Aardvark Sensing BV is a technology company based in Amstelveen, the Netherlands, and an alumnus of the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC Noordwijk).

We work on a single idea: inexpensive sensors, carried by autonomous platforms and fused with AI, add up to a far more capable instrument than any one expensive sensor on its own. Getting there means owning the whole chain. In our own robots that runs from optics and radar, through signal processing, machine vision and machine learning, to autonomous driving, radio communications and the cloud infrastructure behind them.

We build that chain ourselves for our own product, GreenPulse, and we bring the same experience to other sensing companies as technology leadership.

2023

Incorporated

ESA BIC

Alumni

25 yrs

Sensing Systems

The Full Depth of a Sensing Product

Sensing products fail at the seams between disciplines. We cover all of them in one team.

Sensing and Signal Chain

Analog front ends, radio, optics and acoustics. Multispectral sensing at a fraction of the cost of commercial alternatives, with active illumination for night operation.

DSP and Embedded

Real-time acquisition and signal processing, embedded firmware, and the numerical work underneath: dynamic range, quantisation, filtering and timing.

Hardware and Mechanics

Electrical and PCB design, mechanical design, and additive manufacturing. Our own robots are 100% 3D printed, which keeps lead times short and the supply chain resilient.

Robotics and Autonomy

GNSS and RTK navigation, motor control, obstacle avoidance and route planning for machines that have to work unattended, outdoors, at night.

Machine Vision and AI

Detection, classification and anomaly models trained on our own data, running at the edge and in the cloud. 10GB per green, every night, is what makes the models possible.

IoT, Cloud and CI/CD

Fleet telemetry, over-the-air updates, containerised deployment and continuous delivery, from air-gapped installations to public cloud.

Strategic Technology Consulting

Senior technical leadership for sensing companies, with the hands-on depth behind it.

Sensing companies rarely have every discipline in house, and the questions that matter most sit between them. What is the analog front end costing the rest of the chain. Is the detection performance we ship the best this design can do. What happens when the one person who understands the core of the product leaves. These are decisions rather than tasks, and they are usually made without anyone in the room who has built the whole chain before.

That is the seat we take. Alongside your leadership, inside your team, with twenty-five years of sensing systems behind the advice and the ability to prove it in hardware when it matters.

Fractional CTO

Technical leadership for companies between CTOs, or carrying a hardware product without a hardware architect. One or two days a week, in the room where the decisions are made, accountable for the outcome rather than the report.

Technology Strategy and Architecture

Where the product should go technically, and what it will cost to get there. Build versus buy, technology selection, and an architecture that survives the next product instead of being rewritten for it.

Continuity and Key-Person Risk

When a core design, often an FPGA or a signal processing chain, is understood by one person and changed by nobody. We recover the architecture, the requirements and the engineering intent, add testing, and hand back something the company owns rather than borrows.

Measurement Performance

What your detection performance is actually costing you. Where the signal chain gives away noise performance, dynamic range or resolution, what that means in false positives and false negatives, and which fixes are worth making.

AI-Assisted Engineering

Most hardware teams cannot use AI assistance on their own product, because the design is not written down in a form anything can read. We change that, so the speed AI brings to software becomes available on your hardware codebase too.

Engineering Practice and Team

How the team builds, not only what it builds. Version control, build and test discipline, code review, release process, and an honest view of which role is worth hiring next.

Engagements typically run one or two days a week, on site, for as long as they are useful and no longer. We start with a short technical session at your premises, at no cost, to work out whether there is a problem worth our time and yours.

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Our Own Product: GreenPulse

GreenPulse is autonomous scouting for golf course greens. Robots scan every green nightly, AI spots stress patterns before they are visible to the eye, and the head greenkeeper has complete visibility before the morning meeting.

It is also the proof of everything above. Every layer of it, the sensor, the electronics, the robot, the models and the cloud, was designed and built in house, and it runs in the field on real golf courses rather than in a lab.

Greens are the first market. Sports fields, turf growers and broader agricultural applications follow the same technology.

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Leadership

Experienced technology leadership across sensing, hardware and go-to-market.

Ilan Lewin

Co-founder & CTO

Physicist and three-time founder with 25 years across sensing and signal processing, RF and electronic warfare, multi-sensor platforms, and cloud. Leads the consulting practice.

Omri Gino

Co-founder & Chief Product Officer

Product designer, operator, and serial co-founder. Seven years in sales leadership and go-to-market strategy, €700K+ raised across four crowdfunding campaigns, and 20+ products brought to market with production lines in the US and China.

Martin Haselhoff

Chief Commercial Officer

Experienced business manager and innovator in the TMT sector. Track record building high-impact consumer products at Philips and KPN, with expertise in strategy, partnerships, and bridging tech startups with corporate innovation.

Building something that senses the world?

Whether you need a partner for a sensing product or want to see GreenPulse in the field, we are happy to talk.

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