The same hardware solving the same problem at three different scales
Market One
Every motorcyclist knows the tradeoff: put on a helmet, lose your peripheral vision. You can't see the car in your blind spot. You can't see what's behind you without a painful neck twist. At night, you're guessing. And the statistics are brutal — motorcyclists are 24 times more likely to die per mile traveled than car drivers.
Project Heimdall restores what the helmet takes away. Four cameras stitch a seamless 180-degree passthrough view directly to your eyes in under 25 milliseconds — faster than human visual processing. Rear-view picture-in-picture eliminates the need to look over your shoulder. Blind spot alerts catch what mirrors miss. Night vision keeps you riding when the sun goes down. And the entire system — AI, displays, cameras, compute — lives inside a helmet that costs less than a premium exhaust system.
Market Two
Dismounted soldiers operate with a catastrophic situational awareness gap. The F-35 Helmet Mounted Display System solves this — but it costs $400,000 per unit and requires a $100 million aircraft to function. The Army's IVAS program allocated $21.9 billion for 120,000 units at $182,000 each. Every dismounted soldier who isn't in an F-35 cockpit or wearing IVAS is operating blind.
Project Heimdall is fully self-contained. No vehicle. No external compute rack. No tether. WiFi CSI through-wall detection identifies humans behind solid walls up to 5 meters. YOLOv8 weapon recognition runs at 15fps on embedded Jetson Orin Nano compute. Night vision, facial recognition watchlists, and graceful degradation on camera failure — all in a helmet that costs less than 1/36th of IVAS per unit.
Procurement path: SBIR Phase I and II, direct procurement, patent licensing to defense contractors.
Market Three
Tactical helmets offer ballistic protection but zero sensory enhancement. Officers entering buildings, scanning crowds, or responding to active threats operate with degraded awareness at exactly the moment they need awareness most. Current tactical gear protects the head but blindfolds the mind.
Project Heimdall transforms the tactical helmet from passive protection into active intelligence. Weapon detection flags threats in crowds before officers consciously register them. Through-wall WiFi sensing reveals occupants behind closed doors. Local facial recognition watchlists identify persons of interest without cloud dependency. Department-level procurement requires no federal approval — deploy under $5,000 per unit with recurring software subscription for watchlist management and AI model updates.
Recurring revenue: Software subscription model for watchlist management and AI model updates.