OIP Sensor Systems

OIP Sensor Systems, the trade name of OIP nv, is a Belgian electro-optics company headquartered in Oudenaarde and part of Elbit Systems, which acquired it in 2003. It was founded in Ghent in 1919 as Optique et Instruments de Précision and moved to Oudenaarde in 1988. According to the company it employs nearly 200 people, most of them engineers, and carries out engineering, production and qualification in its Belgian facilities.

Its defence portfolio comprises night vision and thermal equipment for dismounted soldiers, sighting and fire control systems for vehicles and remote weapon stations, situational awareness systems and surveillance cameras. It supplies defence forces as well as vehicle manufacturers and weapon system integrators. The business unit OIP Space Instruments builds electro-optical instruments for space missions, including the NOMAD instrument that has been studying the atmosphere of Mars since 2018.

In counter-UAS the company offers SKYLAR, a stabilised long-range observation platform designed for counter-UAS, surveillance, target acquisition and tracking, with integrated AI processing for target detection, classification and tracking. Its CLOVIS long-range thermal imager with a cooled detector also lists counter-UAS among its applications. SKYLAR was shown at Eurosatory 2026.