Besides the IDF, several foreign militaries use the system. The Hellenic Army, Colombian Air Force, and Czech Republic’s Integrated Intelligence Directorate, all use Airis VISION for border surveillance and counter‑terror monitoring.
By Hezy Laing
Israel’s Airis Labs, founded in Tel Aviv in 2021 by computer‑vision specialist Dr. Eyal Shani and former Unit 8200 engineer Lior Ben‑Ami, has rapidly become one of the most influential companies in the field of automated visual‑intelligence extraction.
Its core mission is to transform raw visual data—video feeds, drone imagery, satellite photography and CCTV archives—into actionable military intelligence at scale.
The need for such a system emerged during the intense multi‑front operations of 2023–2025, when the IDF discovered that it was collecting petabytes of visual data per month from drones, aerostats, ground cameras, and satellite partners, far more than human analysts could process.
Units in Gaza and southern Lebanon frequently reported delays of six to twelve hours between image capture and intelligence delivery, a gap that proved operationally dangerous.
Aris Labs was created to close this gap by automating the extraction, classification and prioritization of visual intelligence.
The company’s flagship platform, Airis VISION, uses convolutional neural networks, multi‑sensor fusion and temporal‑pattern analysis to identify objects, track movement, detect anomalies and map changes over time.
It can ingest feeds from Elbit Systems’ Skylark drones, IAI Heron UAVs, commercial satellites such as PlanetScope, and even smartphone video captured by soldiers.
The system tags vehicles, weapons, individuals, infrastructure damage, tunnel entrances and logistical activity, then pushes alerts directly to battlefield networks such as the IDF’s Tzayad and Shachar systems.
Airis VISION provides automated order‑of‑battle reconstruction, convoy‑tracking, border‑monitoring, and change‑detection reports.
It can process up to 40,000 frames per second across distributed servers and generate intelligence summaries in under 90 seconds, replacing hours of manual review.
The platform also includes a forensic module used by military police and intelligence units to reconstruct incidents from fragmented video sources.
Aris Labs competes with several major players in the defense‑AI sector, including Cortica Defense, AnyVision, Palantir’s MetaConstellation, and Skydio’s visual‑AI stack, though Aris is considered unique for its specialization in real‑time multi‑sensor fusion.
Its clients include the Israel Defense Forces, the Ministry of Defense Directorate of Defense Research and Development (MAFAT), and several foreign partners such as the Hellenic Army, Colombian Air Force, and Czech Republic’s Integrated Intelligence Directorate, all of which use Aris VISION for border surveillance and counter‑terror monitoring.
Aris Labs has become a central pillar of Israel’s emerging battlefield‑AI ecosystem, turning overwhelming volumes of visual data into fast, structured intelligence that directly shapes operational decision‑making.
