WRAP anchors the platform with a strategic investment in Frenel Imaging Ltd., securing WRAP exclusive U.S. and NATO commercialization rights to TPiCore® thermal-polarimetric sensing and establishing the detection layer for WrapShield and potential future responses across every domain
Wrap Technologies, Inc., a global public safety technology company, launched WrapShield, an autonomous defense and public safety platform designed to detect threats earlier, orchestrate the response, and act with proportionate, mission-appropriate action; built on the conviction that this decade’s defining threats, from the battlefield to the homeland, will be solved not by better individual devices but by an intelligent operating layer connecting detection to response.
WrapShield represents the next evolution of WRAP – from a company recognized for innovative non-lethal tools to a platform company connecting advanced sensing, artificial intelligence, command-and-control, and response technologies into a unified operating architecture for public safety, homeland security, defense, and critical infrastructure.
To stand up the platform’s detection layer, WRAP announced a strategic investment in Frenel Imaging Ltd. (“Frenel”), an Israeli advanced-sensing company, together with an exclusive U.S. and NATO license to Frenel’s proprietary TPiCore® thermal-polarimetric imaging. Frenel is expected to be the first of many planned investments into WrapShield. WRAP believes it identified the market’s blind spot early and secured access before the U.S. market fully understood this newly validated operational technology. Already in operational use in Israel, Frenel’s technology brings WRAP access to a sensing capability that the Company believes is relevant to U.S. defense and public safety markets.
WrapShield is an autonomous defense and public safety platform intended to serve as an operating layer that connects detection, decision, and response across complex operational environments. WrapShield is designed to enable government agencies to integrate existing and future sensors, AI capabilities, and response technologies into a unified operational ecosystem.
- Detect: Advanced multi-modal sensing beginning with Frenel’s TPiCore® thermal-polarimetric imaging and AI edge processing, with an architecture designed to incorporate additional sensing technologies over time.
- Orchestrate: AI-assisted, human-supervised threat detection, classification, and decision support that fuses sensor data, assesses threats, and recommends proportionate courses of action while interoperating with government and third-party command-and-control systems.
- Respond: A response layer capable of integrating WRAP’s own technologies as well as third-party and government response capabilities – kinetic or non-kinetic, lethal or non-lethal, autonomous or human-directed – based on mission requirements, rules of engagement, and customer preferences. The initial application is counter-UAS, with an architecture designed to expand across defense, public safety, critical infrastructure, border security, and other autonomous security missions.
The platform’s advantage begins with physics. Conventional thermal cameras generally read one dimension of infrared data – intensity; TPiCore® is designed to read a additional data layers, capturing the polarization of thermal radiation at the pixel level to support reconstruction for each object’s physical characteristics and material composition. The Company believes this polarimetric fingerprint cannot be spoofed, jammed, or turned off, and requires no RF signal to detect. Frenel’s technology implements real-time processing on edge hardware across drone, ground, fixed-site, naval, and handheld configurations.
“We believe the polarimetric fingerprint of an object is as immutable as its molecular composition — it cannot be spoofed, jammed, or turned off. WRAP is the right partner to scale this capability across the U.S. and NATO” said Sagi Zur Arie, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Frenel
For two decades these were nation-state problems – engineered abroad, fought on foreign battlefields, and countered almost exclusively by the U.S. military. We believe that era is over: the same autonomous, RF-silent systems now cross the U.S. border, loiter over domestic airspace, and probe critical infrastructure at home – and defending against them is no longer the military’s job alone: homeland security, critical infrastructure, and public safety must all be able to detect, orchestrate, and respond. The most dangerous of these systems may carry no radio link, rendering them invisible to the RF-based detection the counter-UAS market is built on. WrapShield is designed to help address that blind spot.
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“WrapShield represents our long-term vision for the future of defense and public safety,” said Scot Cohen, Chief Executive Officer of WRAP. “We’re beginning with one of the most urgent operational challenges facing the world today – countering the rapidly growing threat posed by unmanned aircraft systems. As asymmetric threats become more accessible to lone actors and sophisticated adversaries alike, our customers need platform-level solutions that match the speed, scale, and economics of the threat. WrapShield is our answer: an autonomous platform that is designed to enable earlier detection, AI-assisted decision support, and integration with the response technologies our customers trust. Frenel’s advanced thermal polarimetric sensing technology is the first building block in what we believe will become a foundational platform for the next generation of defense and public safety.”
A Sensing Capability Applicable Across Emerging Security and Autonomous Markets
Thermal polarimetric sensing is the next level of Visual Actionable Intelligence with applicability extending well beyond traditional public safety environments. Illustrative markets and applications include:
- Defense Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)
- Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Counter-UAS)
- Autonomous Ground, Maritime, and Aerial Vehicles
- Maritime Domain Awareness
- Persistent Surveillance Missions
- AI-Enabled Perception Systems
- Robotics and Autonomous Platforms
- Military and Allied Defense Applications
- Border Security
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Industrial Monitoring
- Advanced Remote Sensing Architectures
- Airborne and Persistent Observation Missions
Because thermal polarimetric sensing measures characteristics inherent to physical materials rather than solely thermal intensity, management believes it is positioned as the underlying technology that will support future applications ranging from ground-based security operations to airborne remote sensing architectures, persistent observation missions, and intelligent autonomous systems where advanced material discrimination, anomaly detection, and situational awareness are increasingly important.
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