DGIST Startup 'Toris' Develops World's Best Anti-Drone Technology... Capable of Tracking from 10km Distance

Global Company Tracks Only 3km

CEO O Dae-geon: "Factory Completion Next Year"

DGIST (President Yang Guk) announced that its employee startup company ‘Toris’ (CEO Daegun Oh) held an anti-drone radar demonstration event at the Goheung Drone Center in Goheung-gun, Jeollanam-do, with over 50 attendees including related personnel, proving the world’s top-level drone detection radar performance.

The Elizer Radar, an anti-drone radar developed by Toris.

At the demonstration held on September 22, Toris’s anti-drone radar successfully detected, identified, and tracked a virtual hostile drone (RCS 0.03m²) at a distance of about 13 km and a micro drone, DJI’s Phantom 4 (RCS 0.01m²), at about 10 km.

Considering that the tracking distance of the global major British company B’s radar is 3 km, this is more than three times better, representing the world’s best performance. Moreover, during the 40-minute demonstration, the radar did not miss a single drone flying various routes over land and sea, including approaching and departing targets and crossing targets.

This demonstration proved the world’s top-level range and accuracy.

Furthermore, Toris’s anti-drone radar is an AI-based AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar that can detect not only small unmanned aerial vehicles but also ground vehicles and small vessels at sea through AI filtering.

Toris is conducting a demonstration event for an anti-drone radar.

Toris is a DGIST employee startup founded in 2020 by Dr. Daegun Oh of DGIST, based on the core technology of AESA drone detection radar.

In 2021, it already demonstrated world-class drone detection radar performance through the Defense Acquisition Program Administration’s rapid demonstration acquisition project.

Since then, it has dramatically improved the maximum detection distance of anti-drone technology using purely domestic technology. Also, from October 17 to 22, at Seoul ADEX 2023, it exhibited the AESA radar alongside Hyundai Wia’s integrated anti-drone defense system (ADS) and introduced the technology to domestic and international military officials.

Dr. Daegun Oh, CEO of Toris, said, “We commercially launched an excellent mass-production version of the radar last July, and the product manufacturing factory is scheduled to be completed in the first half of next year.” He added, “Considering the global industry’s top-level technological competitiveness with a detection range exceeding 13 km through actively utilizing AI radar technology, there is guaranteed high demand in the global market, and we can become a leading player in K-defense exports.”