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Drones & robotics

Surveillance drone

A long-endurance aircraft carrying a stabilised EO/IR gimbal and on-board detection. It reaches any point on a site in under a minute, holds there for over an hour, tells a person from an animal on its own, and puts one encrypted picture in front of every responder.

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The problem

Blind

A fixed camera network covers the posts you planned for and leaves the gaps you did not. Blind spots sit behind buildings, along tree lines and across the stretches of a site no mast reaches, and the moment an incident moves it moves out of frame. Guards cannot stand everywhere, a foot patrol takes minutes to reach the far fence, and by the time a control room stitches three feeds together the subject has gone. What a site needs is an eye that can be over any point within a minute, hold there for the length of a shift, separate a person from a fox on its own, and hand that call to every responder at once. That is an aircraft, not another pole.

Design targets
90 min Endurance on station
< 60 s Overhead to any point on site
1.2 km Human detection range, EO/IR
AES-256 Encrypted feed to every seat
The system

Jobs

Sensing, autonomy and endurance. Each part closes one gap a fixed network leaves open. Open a part for what it fixes and how far it goes.

Day and night
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Stabilised EO/IR eye

Sees in the dark

30x EO zoom, cooled or uncooled IR Continuous day and night watch Gyro-stabilised to sub-pixel jitter
Day and night
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Stabilised EO/IR eye

Sees in the dark

30x EO zoom, cooled or uncooled IR Continuous day and night watch Gyro-stabilised to sub-pixel jitter

A gyro-stabilised three-axis gimbal pairs a 30x electro-optical zoom with a thermal IR channel, bore-sighted so the operator works one fused picture from noon to the middle of the night. Without it, a fixed network has fixed blind spots and goes half-blind after dark. With it, the eye moves to the incident, reads a plate or a face at full zoom in daylight and a heat signature through darkness or light fog, and every frame is time and position stamped. The same gimbal flies on every airframe in the range.
Edge AI
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On-board detection and follow

Watches for you

Person and vehicle detection on-board Automatic follow and hands-off orbit AES-256 feed, open REST and ONVIF
Edge AI
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On-board detection and follow

Watches for you

Person and vehicle detection on-board Automatic follow and hands-off orbit AES-256 feed, open REST and ONVIF

On-board inference classifies people and vehicles at the edge and raises an alert only on a real detection, so an operator is not asked to watch an empty picture for an hour. Lock a target and the aircraft flies the follow itself while the operator directs. Command and video are AES-256 encrypted and under 200 ms glass to glass. Detections, position and tracks push over documented REST and an ONVIF video profile any authorised control room can consume. The aircraft flies the watch; the whole team sees one picture.
Quad, wing, VTOL
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Three airframes, one stack

Stays up

60 to 90 min on station per airframe Quad, fixed-wing or VTOL Hot-swap battery, refly in two
Quad, wing, VTOL
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Three airframes, one stack

Stays up

60 to 90 min on station per airframe Quad, fixed-wing or VTOL Hot-swap battery, refly in two

Endurance is the part you size to the site, so the airframe comes as three series on one shared sensing and ground stack. Quad series, multirotor, precise hold over a gate or a crowd, 40 to 60 minutes, hot-swap battery to refly in two. Fixed-wing series, up to two hours of perimeter patrol and long transit over a large estate, mapping and monitoring rather than holding. VTOL series, vertical launch then wing cruise, 60 to 90 minutes, for a watch that has to reach a far corner and then loiter.
Solution optimized products

Configured

Every line item selected and integrated for persistent aerial watch.

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Airframe

Long-endurance multirotor

90 min class

Sealed carbon frame, IP54, hot-swap smart battery, low-noise props, full motor-out control margin for flight over people under waiver.

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Payload

Stabilised EO/IR gimbal

30x + thermal

Gyro-stabilised three-axis gimbal, 30x EO zoom bore-sighted to a thermal IR channel, sub-pixel jitter, on-board H.265 recording.

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Payload

Edge detection module

On-board AI

Person and vehicle classification at the edge, automatic target follow, alert-on-event so operators watch calls, not frames.

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Ground

Encrypted ground station

AES-256 link

Ruggedised controller, AES-256 command-and-video link, sub-200 ms latency, ONVIF and RTP video out to the control room.

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Software

CalyOS Embedded flight stack

Onboard

Mission planning, RTK waypoint flight, geofencing, automatic follow, detection logging and evidence export.

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What is included

Delivered

Turnkey

Ready

The aircraft arrives configured to your site: geofences loaded, the gimbal bore-sighted, the link keyed to your fleet and the feed already routed to your control room. First flight is a supervised watch, not a build.

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On-board detection

Person and vehicle classification runs on the aircraft, so alerts do not wait on a cloud.

Encrypted feed

AES-256 command and video, keyed to your fleet, under 200 ms glass to glass.

Long endurance

60 to 90 minutes on station per airframe, hot-swap battery to refly in two.

Field service

Advance replacement and signed firmware held ten years from the last unit shipped.

“Within a minute of the alarm we had eyes on the trigger and knew we did not need to send anyone. The picture reached every seat at once.”
Control room supervisor, a distribution park
Sensing & detection

Watches

One fused picture from noon to the middle of the night, and an aircraft that flags the person, not the branch. Here is the eye and the inference behind it.

Under the hood

Eye

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Stabilised optics

Day and night in one picture

A three-axis gyro-stabilised gimbal pairs a 30x electro-optical zoom with a thermal IR channel, bore-sighted so the operator works one fused picture rather than two feeds. Sub-pixel stabilisation holds a plate or a face readable at full zoom from over a kilometre in daylight. On thermal, a warm body separates from cold ground well beyond that, so a person crossing an unlit field is a contact, not a guess.

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Edge inference

Classifies on the aircraft

On-board inference classifies people and vehicles in frame and raises an alert only on a real detection, so an operator is not asked to watch nothing happen for an hour. Lock a subject and the flight computer flies the orbit or follow itself, keeping the gimbal on target while the operator directs. None of it depends on a link to a cloud, and no footage has to leave your network to raise an alert.

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Sensor fusion

EO and thermal, bore-sighted

The two channels share a boresight, so a thermal contact picked up at night hands straight to the 30x zoom the moment it comes into light. The cooled IR option holds contrast through light fog and smoke and extends detection range for colder climates, while the uncooled channel suits general watch and follow. You choose the channel against the range and the light you actually work in.

The sensor package

30x EO optical zoom
640 Thermal IR, px class
1.2 km Human detection
H.265 On-board recording
Engineering questions

Sensing

Cooled or uncooled thermal?

Both are offered. The uncooled long-wave channel suits general watch and follow; the cooled channel extends detection range and holds contrast through light fog and smoke. We size the choice against the range and the climate you fly.

Does detection run on the aircraft or in a cloud?

Classification runs on-board at the edge, so alerts do not depend on a link to a cloud and footage does not have to leave your network to raise one.

How readable is the picture at range?

Sub-pixel stabilisation holds a plate or a face readable at full 30x zoom from over a kilometre in daylight, and a warm body separable from cold ground on thermal well beyond that.

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Sensing

Send us the site, the range and the light you work in and we will size the gimbal and the detection to it. First flight is a supervised watch on your own aircraft.

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How it flies

Autonomy

The aircraft flies the watch so the operator directs it, not pilots it.

Follow

Locks and holds

Lock a subject and the flight computer flies the orbit or follow itself, keeping the gimbal on target while the operator directs.

Contain

Geofenced in the stack

No-fly volumes and site boundaries are enforced in the flight stack, not left to the pilot's hand on the stick.

Recover

Fails to a plan

Link loss, GNSS degradation and a motor-out each fly a defined return, tested in the simulator before an operator is signed off.

Control-room integration

Open

One picture

Shared

Command and video are AES-256 encrypted and frequency-agile, under 200 ms glass to glass. Detections, tracks and position push over documented REST, and video is an ONVIF and RTP stream, so the aircraft becomes another camera in the system you already run rather than a second app to learn.

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AES-256 link

Command and video encrypted and keyed to your fleet.

REST events

Detections, tracks and position on a documented API.

ONVIF and RTP

Video straight into your existing VMS, no closed app.

< 200 ms

Glass to glass, so a hands-on follow stays honest.

The difference

Open

CalyraenThe closed system
Video out ONVIF and RTP into your VMS A vendor app only
Detections Documented REST events Locked in the dashboard
Recording H.265 MP4 you own Cloud you rent
Payloads Published rail and power spec Proprietary mount
Where the AI runs On the aircraft In their cloud
The link
< 200 ms Glass to glass
AES-256 Command and video
ONVIF Straight into your VMS
REST Detections and tracks
“It appears in our video wall as just another camera. My operators did not have to learn a second system to watch the sky.”
Security systems integrator, a rail operator
Privacy, evidence & approval

Accountable

A camera that flies raises real questions about privacy, evidence and airspace. None of them are left to chance. Here is how each is answered, in the hardware and in the paperwork.

By design

Evidence

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Privacy

Minimised and logged

Detection is set to alert on people and vehicles, not to identify a named individual, and privacy zones mask fixed areas such as neighbouring property. Every clip is time and GPS stamped and every flight logged, so who watched what and when is a record, not a claim. Retention and access follow your policy, held on your network rather than a vendor cloud.

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Evidence

Admissible, not a phone photo

Recording is on-board in H.265 with a time and position overlay, exported as standard MP4 and stills with an unbroken chain of custody. A clip is handed to an investigation or a court as evidence, not a picture of a screen taken on a phone. Nothing has to leave your network to be useful, and the export format is one your legal team already accepts.

Getting approved

Approval

  1. Scope the operation

    We map the site, the profile and the airspace and agree the category you fly under, Open or Specific.

  2. Build the safety case

    Ground risk, air risk and the flight-over-people case are documented to the standard your regulator expects.

  3. Evidence airworthiness

    The airframe's motor-out margin, geofencing and recovery behaviour are evidenced for the exact profile you fly.

  4. Hand over the pack

    You receive an evidence pack for your file and support through the operator and airspace application.

Compliance questions

Approval

Which frameworks?

Typically EASA Open or Specific in Europe and FAA Part 107 in the United States. We evidence to the one you operate under and support the Specific, waiver or flight-over-people case.

Can it legally fly over people?

The multirotor holds a full motor-out control margin and low-noise props for operation over people under the appropriate waiver, and we evidence the airworthiness case for that profile.

Where is footage stored?

On your network, under your retention policy. Nothing is forced into a vendor cloud, and privacy zones and access controls are set before first flight.

Bring us your site

Compliance

Send us the airspace and the policy you operate under and we will map the approval and the evidence pack before you buy. The compliance case is scoped, not improvised.

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Take it away

Resources

The briefs, the technical case and three worked deployments. Open one to read the summary.

Brief
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the aircraft.

2 pages For decision makers
Brief
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Solution brief

The one-page case for the aircraft.

2 pages For decision makers

A two-page summary: the problem, the design targets, the three 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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Persistent watch white paper

The technical and operational rationale.

14 pages For technical evaluators
White paper
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Persistent watch white paper

The technical and operational rationale.

14 pages For technical evaluators

Coverage modelling against a fixed camera network, the sensing and edge-detection rationale, privacy and evidence handling, and a worked deployment from first flight to in-service, with total cost of ownership.
White paper
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Control-room integration guide

For your own engineers.

20 pages For integrators
White paper
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Control-room integration guide

For your own engineers.

20 pages For integrators

The REST and ONVIF interfaces, the encrypted RTP video stream, VMS integration, data formats and the payload rail and power spec, so integration can be scoped before purchase.
Use case
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Perimeter watch

Fence line and blind spots.

SeriesFixed-wing Rolepatrol
Use case
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Perimeter watch

Fence line and blind spots.

SeriesFixed-wing Rolepatrol

Fixed-wing series flying a programmed perimeter route for up to two hours, classifying people and vehicles along the fence line and feeding tracks to the control room so guards are sent to a confirmed intrusion, not a swaying branch.
Use case
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Event and crowd

Overwatch and flow.

SeriesQuad Rolehold and observe
Use case
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Event and crowd

Overwatch and flow.

SeriesQuad Rolehold and observe

Quad series holding over a venue, reading crowd density and flow and following an incident as it moves, with a live feed to the command post and to police liaison on one encrypted picture.
Use case
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Rapid response

First eyes on an alarm.

SeriesVTOL Roletransit then hold
Use case
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Rapid response

First eyes on an alarm.

SeriesVTOL Roletransit then hold

VTOL series launched on an alarm, cruising to a far corner of a large site and then holding on target, putting eyes on the trigger before a patrol can reach it and confirming whether to commit people at all.
Request the files

Files

Sent on request and tailored to the profile you send us.

Surveillance drone datasheet Datasheet PDF, on request Control-room integration guide Integration PDF, on request Persistent watch white paper White paper PDF, on request

What the pack contains

6 Documents and cases
AES-256 Link, evidenced
10 yr Spares and images
3 yr Warranty standard
How you buy it

Owned

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 Embedded flight stack once, and they are yours, with signed firmware updates included through the support term. Advance replacement puts a spare in the air before a failed unit is returned, and spares and signed images are held ten years from the last shipment. 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 running behind it.

Specify it with us

Watch

Tell us the site, the light and the airspace, and we will configure the aircraft, the link and the approval around it. One aircraft, one encrypted picture, on watch for years.

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