Squarehead Technology

Squarehead Technology AS designs and manufactures electronically steerable microphone arrays and acoustic sensors. The systems detect drones and rocket, artillery and mortar fire passively from sound, and monitor machinery in industrial facilities, where machine learning is used to flag early signs of equipment failure.

Customers are defense and security organisations, and industrial operators in maritime, pulp and paper, and metal industries. The company sells through its own subsidiaries, distributor channels and partnerships with system integrators, according to its website.

The company was founded in 2004 by three physics students at the University of Oslo; its headquarters is at Nydalsveien 28 in Oslo, Norway, and the website also lists a US subsidiary in Hickory, North Carolina. Its website states that staff live in four countries. Open roles listed include a Sales Manager for Defense and a Manufacturing Test Engineer based in Fredrikstad.

Product: Steerable microphone arrays and acoustic sensors for drone detection, C-RAM detection and industrial machinery monitoring.