The latest “Situation Awareness System Market Report” published by IMARC Group (April 2025) highlights the spectacular growth of the global market for situational awareness systems (SAS). Estimated at 37.7 billion USD in 2024, it should reach 70.6 billion USD in 2033, with average annual growth of 6.87% over the period 2025-2033.
In this rapidly accelerating context, Nexvision stands out by being referenced by this study alongside major international names such as BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and Honeywell. This significant recognition positions the Marseille-based SME as an essential leader in mission-critical embedded systems dedicated to advanced perception and multispectral data fusion.
Why is Situational Awareness essential?
Situational awareness is the ability to collect, analyze and render instantaneous information from multiple sensors, enabling rapid, informed decision-making. The market is developing under the impetus of three major factors:
- Increased security in today’s unstable geopolitical context, requiring reliable systems for armored vehicles and soldiers.
- The growing autonomy of vehicles and drones, requiring enhanced perception capabilities.
- Environmental and maritime safety requirements, to prevent collisions with floating objects or protected species.
Nexvision’s answer: three specialized systems for three major challenges
Nexvision has developed a range of systems dedicated to these specific challenges, capitalizing on 20 years of expertise in onboard optronics, sensor fusion and high-speed real-time computing.
eVSA: A revolution for armored vehicles
The eVSA (embedded Vehicle Situational Awareness) system provides military vehicles with ultra-detailed 360° vision, combining visible, thermal infrared and night vision sensors. Thanks to the eVPU embedded computing platform developed by Nexvision (with a capacity for up to 100 Gb/s of locally processed data), eVSA instantly detects and identifies potential threats in critical conditions (dust, smoke, total darkness). The result: enhanced crew safety and decisive operational superiority.
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eSAS: the mixed-reality augmented soldier
Designed for dismounted soldiers in the theater of operations, the eSAS (embedded Situational Awareness for Soldiers) system uses innovative helmets equipped with OST (Optical See Through) mixed reality. Thanks to the fusion of data from multiple sensors (lightweight helmet-mounted cameras with thermal sensors, NATO level 5 dark night vision, plus multiple sensors on the soldier’s physiology), the soldier instantly obtains an augmented representation of his environment, drastically improving his safety and tactical capabilities. With eSAS, Nexvision offers an ergonomic, lightweight solution that pushes human sensory limits in the field.
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eMAS: Proactive detection for maritime environments
The eMAS (embedded Maritime Awareness System) meets the growing demands of the civilian and military sectors for intelligent maritime surveillance. Designed specifically to detect floating objects (boats, drones, debris), but also to protect sensitive marine species (cetaceans), eMAS combines multispectral sensors and AI algorithms for rapid, accurate identification. This solution effectively prevents the risk of collisions and helps preserve the marine environment.
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Innovation at the heart of success: the eVPU platform
The common technological pillar of these systems remains the eVPU embedded computing platform. Capable of processing up to 3,000 TOps/s in real time, it integrates FPGAs, Nvidia GPUs with neural networks and artificial intelligence algorithms. This exceptional processing power is essential for immediate decision-making in situations where every millisecond counts. eVPU is available in several versions, depending on whether it is integrated into a vehicle or mounted on a soldier.
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A strategic and sovereign advantage
Nexvision’s presence in this major report is no coincidence: it illustrates the competitiveness of French Deep Tech in the face of international giants. By mastering the complete optronics chain (optics, image sensors, mechatronics, electronic design, image processing and analysis, multi-sensor fusion, etc.), Nexvision contributes directly to strengthening national and European technological sovereignty in a key strategic field.
Promising prospects
By positioning its eVSA, eSAS and eMAS solutions as benchmarks in their respective markets (military vehicles, augmented soldiers and maritime), Nexvision aims to become a central player on a European and global scale. The company now aims to accelerate its collaboration with defense and industrial integrators, while capitalizing on its ability to offer highly innovative, robust systems that have been tested under extreme conditions.
With this international recognition, Nexvision confirms that French technological innovation has its place in the global challenges of Situational Awareness, opening up excellent industrial, strategic and environmental prospects for years to come.
