Sensing
Fixes: no measured temperature to act on, through smoke and at night.
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.
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.
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.
Fixes: no measured temperature to act on, through smoke and at night.
Fixes: a pilot flying by hand, and a picture only they can see.
Fixes: reaching and holding over ground no crew can safely approach.
Every line item selected and integrated for aerial suppression.
Eight-motor coaxial-X, sealed carbon frame, IP54, hot-swap smart battery, full motor-out control margin.
Quick-release tank on a standard rail, gravity or pumped delivery, drop rate and volume set to the airframe.
Uncooled microbolometer, 8 to 14 um, +/- 2 C to 1500 C, 16-bit radiometric stream, slaved 30x visible camera.
Ruggedised controller, AES-256 command-and-video link, sub-200 ms glass-to-glass latency, incident-net video out.
Mission planning, RTK waypoint flight, threshold hotspot detection, radiometric logging and export.
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.