Accipiter’s Smart Surveillance Networks (SSNs) will do for surveillance systems what cellular networks have done to telephones by replacing them with smart phones. It’s all about creating wide-area, regional situational awareness accessible to stakeholders using shared infrastructure, so they can understand what’s happening on the water, in the air or on the ground in the world around them, in an affordable manner.
While we are in the very early days of smart surveillance networks, Accipiter has already rolled out three such networks in North America, and can roll one out for you too.
In the Oil Sands of Northern Alberta, Accipiter has rolled out a private smart surveillance network for Suncor combining dozens of avian radars and hundreds of radio-controlled deterrent devices from different OEMs into an integrated and completely automated radar-activated deterrent system that protects birds from harm, the first and only one of its kind, and this SSN continues to expand.
In Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Region, Accipiter has also rolled out a small and growing, bi-national, smart surveillance network, the only one of its kind, with both IMO and IALA maritime radar sensors, and with radars owned by different parties all working together in an integrated system with various users including Canadian and U.S. law enforcement. This SSN serves border enforcement, search and rescue, shipping and port operations missions; and users access the data they require through a secure subscription service provided by Accipiter. This SSN is ideally suited to expand and help Canada and the United States affordably secure the entire 2,000 km open maritime border that runs through the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway for less than 20% of the cost of the Gordie Howe Bridge.
More recently, Accipiter helped FPL roll out a private smart surveillance network with integrated radar and ADS-B sensors across West Palm Beach, Florida to enable its team of Part 107 drone pilots to remotely fly their fleet of drone-in-boxes beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) to efficiently inspect FPL’s power line infrastructure. By obfuscating and replicating surveillance data in real-time from the SSN into a new, Accipiter-managed data center, Accipiter is able today to offer new users affordable, airspace awareness subscription services which leverage the original surveillance infrastructure. This is done in a similar way to how smart phones from one service provider are able to securely access and leverage cellular base stations provided by another service provider.