The Hero

Every day, over 170,000 vessels, paramotor pilots, kayakers, and paddleboarders operate in UK coastal waters completely invisible to electronic watchkeeping. Commercial ships cannot see them. RNLI crews cannot track them. When something goes wrong, rescue teams search blind across hundreds of square kilometres.

VIDEAR makes them visible.

Our patented Coastal Position Awareness System — CPAS — turns the smartphone already in a coastal user's pocket into a real-time 3D safety beacon. No hardware. No infrastructure cost. No barrier to adoption. Just every life on and around the UK coastline, visible to those sworn to protect them.

What We Build

VIDEAR is a pure-software Digital Twin platform built on Unity 6 and protected by UK Patent GB2629638B. We unify fragmented data sources — commercial AIS feeds, mobile GNSS, UAV telemetry, tidal streams, and LiDAR terrain — into a single navigable 3D operational picture.

Where traditional tracking systems show a flat map, VIDEAR shows a living, breathing volume. A kayaker at sea level. A paramotor at 300 feet above the cliff edge. A commercial ferry entering the harbour mouth. All in the same display. All in real time. All accurate to the metre in three dimensions.

Why Now

RYA SafeTrx — the UK's primary coastal safety tracking service — closed permanently on 31 December 2025. Over 13,000 active users lost their platform overnight. Approximately 6,000 remain without a viable replacement today.

No current alternative integrates with RNLI systems. None make coastal users visible to commercial shipping. None solve the problem SafeTrx was only beginning to address.

VIDEAR is the only platform that closes this loop entirely — and the window to act is open right now.

Our Vision

We are building the visibility infrastructure for the UK coastline — and beyond. Our Pilot is Newhaven Port to Shoreham-by-sea 14km of coastline with incredibly diverse traffic.

True situational awareness demands more than dashboards and data tables. It requires visually intuitive, immersive 3D environments where complex information becomes immediately actionable. VIDEAR transforms real-time IoT, GIS, and mobile data into high-fidelity Digital Twins that operators can explore, interrogate, and act within — under pressure, in the field, when it matters most.

We are democratising the Digital Twin: moving it out of engineering labs and into the hands of RNLI crews, port controllers, coastguard operators, and the coastal communities they protect.