What Spoor does
Spoor provides continuous AI-powered monitoring of birds and bats at onshore and offshore wind farms, using off-the-shelf cameras and computer vision to detect and classify wildlife in real time and trigger automated turbine mitigation. The company says its system detects birds at distances up to 1.5km with 95%-plus accuracy and is used by operators including Orsted, RWE, Vattenfall and Equinor. Spoor is based in Oslo, Norway, and was founded in 2020 by CEO Ask Helseth and CTO Helge Reikeras.
How Spoor compares with its closest alternatives
None of the 5 closest alternatives has a free plan, and neither does Spoor. 1 of the 5 offers an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Spoor. Spoor offers a web app and hardware. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 3 offer hardware. Spoor was founded in 2020; the alternatives were founded between 2013 and 2022, 3 of them earlier. Spoor is based in Oslo, Norway; none of its 5 alternatives is in Norway. They are in the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland and elsewhere.