An industrial-technology company building sovereign wireless power infrastructure for autonomous platforms — designed, engineered and manufactured in Australia.
NOA Wireless exists because charging is the bottleneck no one has solved.
Every connector is a failure point. Every charging cycle is a 20–45 minute mission interruption. Every manual battery swap is a labour ceiling that caps fleet size at the human-tech ratio. If your fleet still needs a human to plug it in, your fleet isn't actually autonomous.
NOA's wireless power infrastructure removes the contact entirely — power crosses an air gap, the enclosure stays sealed, and charging starts in under two seconds when the platform lands on the pad. Power becomes infrastructure, not a chore. We treat power exactly the way data is treated: invisible, continuous.
That premise — power-as-infrastructure — is why we engineer the technology as a 1 W to 500 W platform rather than a single charger. The same architecture serves a wearable sensor and a marine ROV.
A decade of work, before the company.
NOA is the production answer to a research problem that's been worked on since 2014.
The technology lineage runs back to portable-power R&D first demonstrated publicly at TEDxMacquarie in 2014 — a decade before the first NOA wireless Dev Kit shipped to engineering teams. The early work asked a small question: why is the experience of charging so much worse than the experience of using power? The answer, eventually, turned out to be the connector itself.
What followed was a long iteration on form factor, on power class, on use case. The shift from consumer portable to industrial wireless came when robotics and drone fleets started losing more uptime to charging than to mission. Charging stopped being a usability problem and became a fleet-economics problem.
NOA was set up to ship that as a sovereign Australian capability — designed in Australia and engineered in Sydney, operating out of Cicada Innovations alongside the country's largest deep-tech community, with a dedicated R&D and engineering facility in North Sydney and Australian-sourced critical components from the first board. Manufacturing capability is being scaled under the current raise. Selected for Startmate's Summer '24 cohort. The stated position: be the picks-and-shovels infrastructure underneath every autonomous platform running the field — across commercial fleets, industrial OEMs, and defence.
The picks and shovels of autonomous technologies.
— NOA's position in the stack
The sovereignty isn't retrofit.
The supply chain decisions are deliberate. Australian capability, AUKUS-aligned, ready for procurement contexts where origin matters.
Wireless power is moving into platforms that can't tolerate supply-chain ambiguity — defence systems, coalition assets, critical infrastructure, sovereign industrial fleets. NOA was set up Australian, with Australian-sourced critical components, from the first board.
The IP is Australian. NOA is designed in Australia and engineered in Sydney, with operations across two spaces: Cicada Innovations — Australia's deeptech incubator at Eveleigh, where the team works alongside the country's largest deep-tech and hardware community — and NOA's R&D and engineering facility in North Sydney, where the day-to-day build happens. Manufacturing capability is being scaled under the current raise. The supply chain for critical components is Australian-sourced by deliberate decision.
The capability is designed to fit AUKUS Pillar 2 sourcing requirements from day one — no retrofitted compliance documentation. For industrial OEMs reshoring after the 2020 supply-chain reset, it's a de-risked Australian source for a capability that's already being procurement-screened.
DesignedAustralian wireless power IP
EngineeredR&D and engineering facility, North Sydney
ManufacturingCapability scaling under current raise
SourcedAustralian-sourced critical components
Designed forAUKUS Pillar 2 sourcing rules
Reference deployment
A drone-as-a-service customer — autonomous bird deterrence at scale.
An Australian drone-as-a-service operator running AgTech fleets for bird deterrence across vineyards and berry farms. The original plan called for 18 drones to cover a 20-hectare plot under manual battery-swap operations. With NOA wireless power integrated into the dock, the same plot is now covered by 6 drones charging autonomously between sorties — a 66% fleet reduction, and zero operators on the ground rotating batteries. From the deployment data.
66%
Fleet reduction — 18 drones to 6, same coverage
~$214K
Equipment cost savings on a single deployment
29.7 min
Full recharge — no plug, no operator
< 2 s
Charge initiation when the drone lands on the pad
Most defence hardware traces back to a component you didn't choose. NOA Wireless is built here because sovereign supply chains aren't negotiable.
SovereignAustralian-sourced components, by design
AccountableA team you can call, not a datasheet you can email
