MoTES: Modular Total Environmental Sensor
MoTES is a wearable sensing platform that provides real-time detection of airborne hazards, chemical and radiological threats, and environmental exposure conditions. Designed for modular integration, MoTES can be worn or integrated with manned and unmanned systems. A modular, mission-ready sensing platform, MoTES fuses multiple detection capabilities into a compact, configurable system – delivering real-time awareness of acute environmental and operational hazards across personnel.
Built for Changing Threat Environments
Today’s missions require more than a single-purpose detector. Teams operate in fast-changing environments where airborne hazards and emerging threats can appear without warning.
Developed by CRG Defense, MoTES (Modular Total Environmental Sensor) is a compact sensing platform designed to provide real-time awareness of operational and environmental hazards across personnel, vehicles, and unmanned systems.
MoTES combines multiple sensor types, long battery life, wireless communication, and flexible architecture in a lightweight system built for field use. The platform is designed to support both today’s sensing needs and future threat-detection technologies as they become available.
Designed to Grow with the Mission
Most portable detectors are built around fixed sensor packages with limited upgrade paths. MoTES was designed to adapt.
MoTES’ modular architecture allows new sensors to be added without redesigning the full system. As better or lower-maintenance sensors become available, they can be integrated quickly through plug-and-play sensor modules. This approach helps reduce sustainment burden while extending the useful life of the platform.
Lightweight and Mission Ready
MoTES is designed for use across dismounted, mounted, and unmanned operations.
Form Factor Advantages:
- ~ 1 lb total weight
- 12+ hours of battery life
- Wearable or body-mounted configurations
- Vehicle integration capability
- Small UAS payload compatibility
Its compact design allows sensing coverage to be distributed across larger operational areas without adding significant burden to personnel.
Multi-Threat Sensing in One System
MoTES is designed to monitor multiple airborne hazards at the same time, providing a broader picture of operational conditions than traditional single-purpose detectors.
Current Sensor Support: The platform supports gas sensing configurations including:
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Planned Future Expansion
MoTES is being developed to support future integration of:
- Chemical warfare agent (CWA) detection
- Radiation sensing (Gamma and Beta)
- Fine/coarse particulate sensing (PM1, 2.5, 10)
- Tactical data system integration
- Wireless data transmission (including Bluetooth capabilities)
The same core platform supporting today’s gas sensors will support future sensing technologies as they mature.
Data Collection and Operational Insight
MoTES is designed to support both real-time awareness and long-term exposure tracking.
Data Features:
- High-capacity onboard storage for months to years of data retention
- Adjustable alarm limits
- Low detection thresholds
- High-resolution sensor outputs
Long-term Data Collection Can Support:
- Exposure trend analysis
- Force health protection efforts
- Medical surveillance programs
- Operational risk assessment
- Mission review and analysis
Future interoperability goals include integration with:
- TAK / ATAK systems
- CBRN Advisor tools
- Operational command systems
- Tactical force health platforms
Key Capabilities
- Modular Sensor Architecture: Supports up to six sensor modules with mission-specific configurations.
- Real-Time Monitoring with Wireless Transmission: Runs multiple sensing modes at the same time for improved situational awareness.
- Expandable Platform: Supports future sensor upgrades without major redesign.
- Sensitive Detection: Designed for precise measurements with adjustable alarm thresholds.
- Long-Term Data Logging: Stores operational data for exposure tracking and analysis.
- Rugged System Design: Built for personnel, vehicle, and unmanned deployments.
Potential Applications
Military
MoTES is being developed to support defense, CBRN, and force health protection missions.
- CBRN threat detection and exposure monitoring
- Tactical sensing for Special Operations teams
- Bioenvironmental air quality assessment
- Flight-line and maintenance-area monitoring
- Expeditionary sensing in dispersed environments
- Long-term force health tracking
- UAS and UGV-based environmental sensing
- Hazard assessment in contested environments
For many missions, MoTES is intended to serve as a next-generation alternative to legacy systems such as the MultiRAE while providing a path toward future CWA and advanced threat sensing capabilities.
Commercial
- Workplace exposure assessment
- HazMat and emergency response monitoring
- Confined-space atmosphere monitoring
- Field technician air monitoring
- Environmental hazard assessment
- EHS and facility safety operations
A Platform Built for Partnership
MoTES is being developed as an open, modular sensing architecture designed to integrate across missions, platforms, and sensor ecosystems. We are actively seeking partners to help shape and field the system.
- Platform Integrators (Vehicles, UAS, and Wearables)
Teams looking to embed advanced airborne threat and exposure sensing into manned or unmanned systems. - Sensor Developers and OEMs
Organizations interested in integrating gas, particulate, CWA, radiation, or novel sensing technologies into a modular, fieldable platform. - Military and Government Customers
Units and program offices seeking next-generation CBRN, force health protection, and environmental awareness capabilities. - Commercial and Industrial Users
Safety and operations teams that require persistent, multi-hazard exposure monitoring in complex environments.
We are currently engaging partners for early collaboration, integration planning, and future fielding opportunities.