Satellite-powered land protection

Sharing what we’re building at ShieldNex and why it matters, in case anyone here is working on adjacent problems.

In India, a large share of household wealth sits in a single plot of land. For farmers, small business owners, and especially NRIs living abroad, that plot is often the outcome of decades of savings. It is also wide open to slow, quiet encroachment — a boundary wall creeping over, a shed going up on a corner, a track cut through a field. The owner usually finds out long after the change is on the ground, and the legal fight that follows can drag on for years. Families lose the land, the money, or both.

We built ShieldNex to close that gap.

• Every plot is monitored on a fixed cadence using trusted satellite imagery.
• Our AI change-detection engine compares images over time and flags new construction, boundary shifts, and land-use changes.
• The owner gets an alert within 72 hours of a detected change, along with a geo-referenced evidence pack designed to stand up as an electronic record under India’s IT Act 2000 and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023.
• Everything is sealed behind a SHA-256 chain of custody, so no single party — us included — can alter evidence without it being detectable.

The point is that a landowner sitting in Dubai, Toronto, or the next district over gets to see their plot the way a farmer standing on it would, but continuously, and with proof.

The outcome we care about is simple: a family’s lifetime savings stays with the family. A grandmother’s plot doesn’t quietly turn into somebody else’s driveway. An NRI doesn’t come back from abroad to find a stranger’s building on their land.

Would love to hear from anyone in this community working on land protection, change detection for legal use, or evidence pipelines in emerging markets. Happy to compare notes on cadence, cloud cover, and chain-of-custody design.

— Team ShieldNex