Find it. Light it. Sleep.

Tripwire is built by SpectralSense, a computer vision company in Utah. The hard problem was never the light. It was picking out something the size of a grain of rice, moving in three dimensions, in a dark room, and knowing where it is right now, not where it was a second ago. Tripwire does that on its own, inside the device, with no app and nothing sent anywhere.

When it finds one it marks the spot with a low-power light, the same class as a laser pointer. It does not try to kill anything. It is a spotlight, not a weapon, and it is safe around kids and pets.

Male and female mosquitoes look the same to a person. Not to Tripwire. Females are the ones that bite and carry dengue, malaria and other diseases, so those are the ones it marks.

Something that small and that quick is the worst case for a camera. Once a system can track it, bigger and faster things in the same frame are easier, not harder. The same tracking core sees a moth, a bird, a hobby drone, a small aircraft, and at the far end the jet-powered one-way attack drones of the Geran class now used in Ukraine, which are large, loud and fast but fly the same kind of low, straight line a camera can hold. That is our next challenge, and it is gladly accepted.

Government and defense inquiries go through spectralsense.ai/defense.