Counter-UAS

Advanced Counter-UAS solutions providing drone detection, tracking, classification, and decision support to help organisations identify, assess, and respond to emerging aerial threats.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Drone threat detection and response

Airspace is filling with drones, most of them harmless. The problem is no longer seeing them — it is knowing which ones matter, without asking operators to investigate every track.

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Why organisations trust us here

Operational credibility, validated science, and proven results.

In development for Project HADO

Octa is being developed for deployment at London Heathrow under Innovate UK's Future Flight Challenge (consortium led by OSL).

An independent line of identification

Octa classifies objects from their track dynamics, so it complements and cross-checks RF, micro-Doppler and camera systems rather than duplicating them.

No new hardware required

We add capability to the sensors an organisation already owns, rather than replacing them.

Fewer alerts, better alerts

Behaviour is assessed so operators are interrupted only when there is something to act on.

THE DECISION CYCLE

01

Track

Airborne objects are tracked using the sensors already in place.

02

Classify

Objects are classified from their track dynamics (drone, bird, crewed aircraft), out to the sensor's full detection range.

03

Analyse

Flight behaviour is assessed to establish what the object is doing.

04

Alert & re-run

Operators are alerted only when action is required — and the assessment updates as behaviour changes.

We work alongside existing detection technologies rather than replacing them.

Operational use-cases

Real situations, from the challenge to the outcome.

Controlled airspace

Octa: Protecting an airport from unauthorised drones

THE CHALLENGE

An airport has to keep authorised drone operations running while spotting the unauthorised ones, across a large volume of airspace, with operators who cannot investigate every track.

WHAT OUR SOFTWARE DOES

Octa classifies airborne objects and analyses how they are flying, separating authorised activity from flights that warrant attention.

THE OUTCOME

Unauthorised drones are identified in controlled airspace, authorised operations are verified, and operators act on exceptions rather than everything.

Products used: Octa

Products in Counter-UAS

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Octa

Classifying and analysing drone behaviour at scale

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