Overview
Senhive offers customized drone detection and countermeasure solutions for airspace security, as well as airspace management using ground sensors. The company serves use cases including nuclear facilities, prisons, airports, military sites, stadiums, datacenters, maritime ports, and cities.
Media & appearances
- VirtualYouTubeVirtual S02#6 - Go Fast, Think Smart: Vlaanderen op missie in het tijdperk van artificiële intell...Steven Krekels' drone detection business is hyper-relevant and was positioned for Olympic Games security opportunities during the mission.
- VirtualYouTubeVirtual S02#6 - Go Fast, Think Smart: Vlaanderen op missie in het tijdperk van AISteven Krekels' drone detection company is highly relevant and was positioned toward the LA 2028 Olympics for drone detection.
- VirtualYouTubeVirtual S02#4 - Kunnen drones echt onze luchthavens platleggen en bedrijven hacken?Hasselt-based drone detection and identification company (founded 2019, ~20 employees) whose technology helped intercept 800 illegal drones at the Paris Olympics and secures Belgian international airports, ports and events. Flemish drone detection company founded 2019 in Hasselt, pivoted from forest fire detection via satellites to drone detection, secured the Paris Olympics, Belgian airports, ports of Antwerp/Rotterdam/Hamburg and Central Park in New York. Additional recording: Virtual.
Stated facts & numbers
- 800 illegal drones were intercepted during the Paris Olympics using Senhive technologyVirtual 2025-10-010:00:34
- Senhive was founded in 2019 and currently employs 20 peopleVirtual 2025-10-010:17:53
- Only 10-15% of drone flights broadcast their mandatory remote ID according to Senhive's global sensor dataVirtual 2025-10-010:19:26
- Senhive was contacted 2.5 months before the Olympics opening and delivered 20 mobile detection units to the French gendarmerieVirtual 2025-10-010:22:30
- Senhive sensors detect drone-pilot communication up to 25 km awayVirtual 2025-10-010:24:32
- Senhive was founded in 2019, originally for forest fire detection via satellites, and is based at Corda Campus in Hasselt.Virtual 2025-10-010:17:57
- Senhive employs about 20 people and works via a network of resellers and integrators.Virtual 2025-10-010:22:02
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In the news
- 802 NETWORKS is erbij op 𝗗𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘅 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆! Op donderdag 29 oktober zijn we aanwezig op Drone West x Captains of Industrie Day, waar drones, technologie en industriële toepassingen centraal staan. Drones bieden heel wat mogelijkheden voor bedrijven, maar brengen ook nieuwe uitdagingen met zich mee op vlak van veiligheid en connectiviteit. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan het detecteren van drones in omgevingen waar een goede beveiliging essentieel is. Bij 802 Networks brengen we
- How can we support Lower Airspace Economy development? Thousands of autonomous drones will transform how we move, operate and secure our skies. But who will manage this increasingly dynamic—and potentially contested—airspace? I’m pleased to announce my session tomorrow at NestGen by FlytBase: “Securing and Managing the Lower Airspace as Autonomous Drone Operations Scale” Registration is free, link in comments. Senhive
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- There are a few things you won’t hear at a defence event where shiny new tech, “partnerships” with global companies and letters-of-intent are in every pitch. 👇 For example: in the real world, defence buyers won’t bet an operational requirement on a vendor that might run out of cash mid-pilot. Contracts take months of sign-offs. Pilot schedules slip. Payments come late. Investors pull out at the last minute. Somewhere in there, a small company can run out of money. So: yes, beautiful tech matters. So do partnerships, and
- If your core technology relies on unvetted offshore suppliers, your dual-use strategy is dead on arrival. When commercial tech meets defence, there are many reasons why it fails. The less-expected one is provenance: where the hardware was manufactured, who maintains the code, where the data is stored, etc. And - just to make things extra spicy - provenance cuts both ways. 🔺It creates the opportunity. Belgian Defence commissioned Noordzee Drones to build a training drone with no foreign components: the THEQ-1. A clean supply
- See you in Antwerp today and tomorrow! Port of Antwerp-Bruges Senhive
- Slapping a camouflage sticker on an enterprise software product does not make you a dual-use company. Founders struggling in civilian markets sometimes rebrand generic B2B tools as defence tech to chase new funding (I can perfectly understand that, that's where the big money is heading). But when these teams get in front of military buyers, the conversation dies in five minutes. Defence buyers rarely pay for do-everything software. They pay for a specific fix to a concrete operational problem. That is why we invited Steven
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