VIDEAR: Making Every Life on the UK Coastline Visible
Every day, people enter UK coastal waters carrying nothing but a smartphone.
Paddleboarders. Kayakers. Paramotor pilots. Small vessel operators.
To the crews sworn to protect them — they are invisible.
VIDEAR CPAS changes that.
The smartphone already in every coastal user's pocket becomes a verified, real-time presence on an RNLI crew's operational screen — rendered in a live 3D Digital Twin built on real terrain and live AIS data.
For the crew aboard the lifeboat, CPAS delivers a monocular clip HUD — a hands-free augmented reality display that puts the recovery vector directly in the crew member's line of sight.
No screen to hold. No radio to cross-reference. No cognitive load added to an already demanding operation.
Just a precise AR arrow — pointing directly to the casualty's last confirmed position, even when they are hidden below wave height.
Searches become recoveries.
Hours become minutes.
Every life — visible, in real time.
VIDEAR: Making the Invisible, Visible
A "Dark Target" paraglider flying over the English Channel is completely invisible. No AIS signal. No transponder. No radar return. To every vessel below and every rescue service ashore, they simply do not exist. CPAS changes that — turning any smartphone into a real-time position beacon, making the invisible visible, instantly
VIDEAR: Making the Invisible, Visible
When Seconds Matter
Every year, walkers and coastal ramblers set out along the UK's most dramatic cliff paths and Mountain ranges — and some don't come back. When something goes wrong on a remote headland or inland away from cell service, the traditional search response starts from a last known location that may be hours old. Rescue teams fan out across hundreds of metres of rough terrain, working against fading light, deteriorating weather, and the knowledge that every minute matters. Until now, there has been no way to know exactly where that person is.
CPAS changes that in a single moment. The instant a registered walker presses the SOS alert on their phone, their precise 3D position appears on every Mountain Rescue and RNLI screen as a live, pulsing red marker — satellite-confirmed, accurate to within metres, visible even where there is no mobile signal. The 50-metre search radius is already drawn around them. The drone pilot already knows where to point the thermal camera before the aircraft leaves the ground. No specialist hardware. No training required. Just the phone already in their pocket, and a system quietly watching over them from the moment they set off — making the invisible, visible.