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Drones & robotics

Firefighting drone

A heavy-lift multirotor carrying suppressant and a radiometric LWIR camera. It reads the seat of a fire to within two degrees, holds over it on RTK GNSS, and releases on command inside ninety seconds of arriving overhead.

The problem

Fire outpaces the crew, not the sensor.

In its growth phase a compartment fire roughly doubles in size every 30 to 60 seconds. A ground crew averages six to ten minutes to the seat of a structure fire, and longer across wildland fronts or process plant where access is restricted or unsafe. Through that window responders have no line of sight to the hottest point, no calibrated temperature to act on, and no way to apply suppressant without entering the hazard. Water is committed toward the smoke rather than the heat, and the opening decisions of the incident are made on estimation. Closing that gap takes two things overhead at once: a sensor that measures where the fire actually is, and a payload that can act on it in the same pass.

Design targets
< 90 s Overhead to first release
+/- 2 C Radiometric seat-of-fire read
10 kg Suppressant per sortie
0 Responders in the hazard to look
The system

One system, several airframes.

Sensing, control and lift. Each part earns its place by fixing one gap in the first minutes of a fire; the lift is the airframe you choose. Open a part for what it fixes and how far it goes.

Sees the heat
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Sensing

Fixes: no measured temperature to act on, through smoke and at night.

Radiometric 640 x 512, 30 Hz Accurate to +/- 2 C, reads to 1500 C 30x visible fused into one picture
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Sensing

Fixes: no measured temperature to act on, through smoke and at night.

Radiometric 640 x 512, 30 Hz Accurate to +/- 2 C, reads to 1500 C 30x visible fused into one picture

An uncooled 640 x 512 microbolometer streams calibrated 16-bit temperature at 30 Hz across 8 to 14 um, accurate to +/- 2 C and readable to 1500 C in high-gain. Without it, a crew reads a fire by colour and guesswork through smoke. With it, every pixel is a real temperature, logged and exportable, and a 30x visible camera shares the gimbal so the operator works one fused day-and-heat picture instead of switching feeds. The same sensor flies on every airframe.

Holds and shares
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Control & link

Fixes: a pilot flying by hand, and a picture only they can see.

RTK hold to a few centimetres Auto hotspot lock, hands-off loiter AES-256 feed, open REST and MAVLink
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Control & link

Fixes: a pilot flying by hand, and a picture only they can see.

RTK hold to a few centimetres Auto hotspot lock, hands-off loiter AES-256 feed, open REST and MAVLink

Dual-band RTK GNSS holds station to a few centimetres in wind, and the flight computer auto-segments the hottest region by threshold and loiters on it hands-off while the operator commands the drop. Command and video are AES-256 encrypted and under 200 ms glass-to-glass; position, temperature and threshold events push over documented REST and MAVLink, and the video is a standard encrypted stream any authorised ground station can read. So the aircraft flies the pattern, and the whole incident sees the same picture.

Reaches, in three series
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Lift & airframe

Fixes: reaching and holding over ground no crew can safely approach.

Up to 10 kg, motor-out safe 20 to 35 min on station, refly in two Quad, fixed-wing or VTOL
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Lift & airframe

Fixes: reaching and holding over ground no crew can safely approach.

Up to 10 kg, motor-out safe 20 to 35 min on station, refly in two Quad, fixed-wing or VTOL

The lift is the part you size to the mission, so it comes as three airframes on one shared sensing, control and ground stack: Quad series - multirotor, up to 10 kg, hover and precise drop, 20 to 35 min. For structure and industrial fires that have to stop and act over a point. Fixed-wing series - up to 3 kg, 90 to 120 min of thermal patrol and long transit. For wildland fronts and large sites, mapping rather than dropping. VTOL series - up to 5 kg, vertical launch then wing cruise, 60 to 75 min. For incidents far from the launch point that still need eyes, or a drop, once overhead.

Solution optimized products

The configured hardware.

Every line item selected and integrated for aerial suppression.

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Airframe

Heavy-lift coaxial-quad

10 kg payload

Eight-motor coaxial-X, sealed carbon frame, IP54, hot-swap smart battery, full motor-out control margin.

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Payload

Suppressant module

Gravity or pumped

Quick-release tank on a standard rail, gravity or pumped delivery, drop rate and volume set to the airframe.

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Payload

Radiometric LWIR gimbal

640x512, 30 Hz

Uncooled microbolometer, 8 to 14 um, +/- 2 C to 1500 C, 16-bit radiometric stream, slaved 30x visible camera.

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Ground

Encrypted ground station

AES-256 link

Ruggedised controller, AES-256 command-and-video link, sub-200 ms glass-to-glass latency, incident-net video out.

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Software

CalyOS Embedded flight stack

Onboard

Mission planning, RTK waypoint flight, threshold hotspot detection, radiometric logging and export.

Specify it with us

Send us the operating envelope.

Payload, altitude, endurance, the environment it flies in and the rules you operate under. We return a configuration, a spec sheet and a fixed price.

Technologies & tools

How it works, subsystem by subsystem.

Nothing on this airframe is a black box. The sensing, the autonomy and the link are ours, so what you see is what you own: calibrated data, standard mounts and a picture you can pull into your own systems.

Under the airframe

Three subsystems, in detail.

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Sensing & data

Radiometric, not just a heat picture

An uncooled 640 x 512 microbolometer streams calibrated 16-bit temperature at 30 Hz across 8 to 14 um, accurate to +/- 2 C and readable to 1500 C in high-gain. Frames leave the aircraft as R-JPEG or 16-bit TIFF, GPS and time tagged, so a reading is auditable evidence rather than a colourmap. A 30x visible camera is bore-sighted to the same gimbal for one fused day-and-heat picture.

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Flight & autonomy

Triple-redundant, holds itself on the hotspot

A triple-redundant flight controller with dual-band RTK GNSS holds station to roughly two centimetres in wind. The autonomy stack auto-segments the hottest region by threshold and loiters on it hands-off while the operator commands the drop; the same planner flies the fixed-wing series patrol route. Motor-out control margin is retained on the multirotor.

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Datalink & integration

Encrypted, and open to your systems

Command and video are AES-256 encrypted and frequency-agile, under 200 ms glass-to-glass. Position, temperature and threshold events push over documented REST and MAVLink; video is a standard encrypted RTP stream any authorised ground station can decode. Payloads mount to a published rail and power spec, so you are never tied to one controller or a closed cloud.

The numbers that matter
640 x 512 Radiometric thermal, 30 Hz
+/- 2 C Calibrated, reads to 1500 C
2 cm RTK station hold in wind
<200 ms Encrypted link, glass to glass
Engineering questions

The ones your integrator will ask.

Is the thermal data truly radiometric?

Every frame is 16-bit per-pixel temperature, calibrated at manufacture and exported as R-JPEG or 16-bit TIFF. Colourmaps are applied only in the viewer and can be stripped for analysis.

Do payloads move between the series?

The sensor, gimbal and link are common across the quad, fixed-wing and VTOL airframes, so a payload and the ground stack carry over; only the airframe and its flight envelope change.

Are we locked to your ground station?

No. Payloads mount to a published rail and power spec, and the video and control links follow standard, documented protocols.

Specify it with us

Send us the operating envelope.

Payload, altitude, endurance, the environment it flies in and the rules you operate under. We return a configuration, a spec sheet and a fixed price.

Curriculum

A competency path, not a demo day.

  1. Ground school

    Airframe systems, radiometry and thermal interpretation, battery handling and emergency procedures, assessed in writing.

  2. Simulator

    Motor-out, link loss, GNSS degradation and return-to-home flown in sim until the responses are automatic.

  3. Supervised flight

    Live flying on your own airframes and payloads, building to suppression drops under an instructor.

  4. Assessment

    A practical check to a defined standard; pass and the operator is signed to the profile they trained on.

What is included

More than a manual.

Hands-on

Trained on your own airframes.

Your crew learns on the exact units and payloads they will operate, not a demo. Most crews fly a supervised mission the same week and are signed to profile inside the course.

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Course materials

Printed and digital references your crew keeps.

Certification support

We guide your operators through the operator and airspace application, and hand over an evidence pack of training records and sign-offs for your file.

Annual currency

Recurrent assessment every twelve months, records kept per operator and airframe.

Assessed against

What an operator must demonstrate.

Sign-off is to a written standard, not attendance.

Planning

To the airspace rules

A mission plan that meets the rules for the site and the profile.

Interpretation

Seat, not decoy

Correctly reading the seat of a fire on thermal against thermal decoys.

Recovery

At least one failure

Clean handling of an injected failure, flown to time.

Certification

Against your regulator.

Which frameworks?

Typically EASA Open or Specific in Europe and FAA Part 107 equivalents; we evidence to the one you operate under and support the Specific or waiver application.

On our own aircraft?

Yes, live flying is on the exact airframes and payloads you will field, so competency transfers directly to service.

“The crew was reading the seat of the fire on their second training flight. That is the part you cannot get from a manual.”
Training lead, a regional fire and rescue service
Lifecycle services

Bought once, kept flying for years.

The airframe is the start of the relationship, not the end of it. Advance replacement puts a spare in the air before a failed unit is even returned, its logs and settings restored on sign-in. Spares and signed firmware are held ten years from the last shipment, every update tested against your fielded configuration. New sensors fit the airframe you already own, and the person who answers is one of our own engineers.

Reliability

Built to a service life, kept to it.

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Advance replacement

A spare is airborne-ready first

If a unit is lost to a fault, the replacement dispatches before the failed airframe is returned, and its logs and settings restore on sign-in so the crew is not stood down waiting on logistics.

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Serviced on a schedule

Inspected by flight hours

Motors, ESCs and airframe are on a defined inspection interval by flight hour, documented per airframe, so airworthiness is a record you can show, not a hope.

Cover

Everything on the airframe, for years.

Uptime

Never grounded for long.

Spares and signed firmware images are held for ten years from the last unit shipped, so an ageing fleet stays serviceable and every update is tested against your configuration before it reaches you.

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Scheduled service

Checks that keep it airworthy, by the hour.

Payload upgrades

New sensors and modules on the same airframe.

Trade in

Return an old airframe for credit against the next.

The cover in figures
3 yr Warranty standard
Next day Advance replacement
10 yr Spares and images
0 Forced upgrades
“Two seasons in and we have not lost a day to a grounded aircraft. When one went down, the replacement was flying before the paperwork.”
Fleet manager, an industrial response team
Briefs, papers & use cases

Preview before you decide.

Open any document or worked deployment to preview it. Ask and we send the full versions the same working day.

Brief
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The one-page case for the airframe.

2 pages For decision makers
Brief
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the airframe.

2 pages For decision makers

A two-page summary: the problem, the design targets, the series on offer and the outcome, with a headline of the specification and the price model. Written for the person who signs off, not the person who integrates.

White paper
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The technical and operational rationale.

14 pages For technical evaluators
White paper
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Aerial suppression white paper

The technical and operational rationale.

14 pages For technical evaluators

Response-time modelling, the sensing rationale and radiometric method, and a worked deployment from first flight to in-service, with total cost of ownership. The document your technical team reads before a trial.

White paper
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For your own engineers.

20 pages For integrators
White paper
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Ground system integration guide

For your own engineers.

20 pages For integrators

The REST and MAVLink interfaces, the encrypted RTP video stream, data formats and the payload mounting and power spec, so integration can be scoped before purchase.

Use case
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Roof and compartment attack.

SeriesQuad Rolesuppression
Use case
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Structure fire

Roof and compartment attack.

SeriesQuad Rolesuppression

Quad series over the roofline: establish thermal, locate the seat through the smoke layer and place a targeted drop ahead of internal crews. Knock-down is confirmed on the same sensor and the crew's blind-entry exposure is cut.

Use case
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Fire-edge monitoring.

SeriesFixed-wing Rolesurveillance
Use case
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Wildland patrol

Fire-edge monitoring.

SeriesFixed-wing Rolesurveillance

Fixed-wing series flying a programmed perimeter route for up to two hours, flagging over-line spotting by temperature threshold and feeding a live thermal picture to command so crews are committed on data, not guesswork.

Use case
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Tank and gantry.

SeriesQuad or VTOL Rolemonitor and cool
Use case
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Industrial site

Tank and gantry.

SeriesQuad or VTOL Rolemonitor and cool

Hold over process plant no one should climb, monitor vessel skin temperature and cool a rising hotspot while feeding live radiometry to the incident commander.

Request the files

Sent the same working day.

Ask for any document above and we send the current version by return, no NDA to read the datasheet.

How the pack is supplied

6 Documents and cases
Same day On request
No NDA To read the datasheet
One price No recurring licence
Pricing

You own it outright.

There is no per-flight or per-seat licence and no forced subscription. You buy the configured aircraft, the ground system and the CalyOS flight stack once, and they are yours, with signed firmware updates included through the support term. The white paper lays out total cost of ownership against the operating profile you send us, so procurement sees the whole figure, not a headline price with a meter behind it.

Specify it with us

Send us the operating envelope.

Payload, altitude, endurance, the environment it flies in and the rules you operate under. We return a configuration, a spec sheet and a fixed price.