Counter-UAS · Critical Infrastructure

Drone Detection for Critical Infrastructure

Drones loiter over and probe critical infrastructure: water and wastewater treatment plants, power plants and substations, data centers, pipelines, and ports. Perimeter fences were not built for an aerial threat. We design a layered detection architecture for the facility, install and integrate it with the security operation already in place, and train the people who run it, matched to the authority the operator and its law enforcement partners hold.

Discuss Your Requirement Counter-UAS Overview
Where It Is Employed

Facilities We Design For

Each facility type has its own approaches, its own clutter, and its own consequences. The site survey sets the sensor mix and placement.

H2O

Water and Wastewater Treatment

Open basins, chemical storage, and pump stations spread across a large footprint, often with limited security staff on site.

PWR

Power Plants and Substations

Generation sites, switchyards, and substations where a drone over the fence line is a reconnaissance and disruption concern.

DC

Data Centers

High-value campuses where airspace awareness joins an existing physical security and monitoring operation.

PIP

Pipelines and Energy Corridors

Linear assets and remote facilities where detection supports patrol and response planning.

PRT

Ports and Transportation

Waterfront and transportation nodes with approaches over water and open ground. Coastal and port detection →

The Architecture

Layers for the Facility

A single sensor is a gap, not a program. Each layer fills a gap the others leave, fused into one airspace picture the security operation can act on.

RDR

Radar

Non-cooperative detection and tracking of small UAS, cuing EO/IR sensors and feeding a unified common operating picture.

RF

RF Spectrum Sensing

Passive detection and characterization of UAS control and video links. No emissions.

AC

Acoustic Detection

Passive microphone arrays that detect and locate small UAS by acoustic signature, including drones that emit no RF. Strongest at short range and low altitude.

EO

EO/IR Confirmation

Visual classification and confirmation of detected tracks for informed response decisions, day and night.

RID

Remote ID Monitoring

Broadcast Remote ID sensing integrated into the airspace picture for identification and pattern-of-life awareness.

Purchase or Lease

Fixed-site detection can be quoted as a purchase or a lease, with option years and sustainment priced into the acquisition up front. How a detection lease works →

Integration

IRIS provides SAPIENT, ASTERIX, CoT, and XML data interfaces for integration into layered counter-UAS architectures and the common operating picture a facility already runs.

Counter-UAS mitigation capabilities are restricted to organizations and personnel possessing applicable legal authority and are subject to federal requirements governing authorized systems, training, certification, and employment. Counter-UAS detection technologies may be available to federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial organizations subject to applicable law, technology-specific considerations, and each agency's authority. Before we quote, we ask each agency to identify the authority under which it will operate the system.
Common Questions

Questions Buyers Ask

Can a utility or data center operator install drone detection?
Counter-UAS detection technologies may be available to federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial organizations subject to applicable law, technology-specific considerations, and each organization's authority. We ask each customer to identify the authority under which it will operate the system and to confirm it with its own counsel before we quote.
Can a critical infrastructure operator stop or jam a drone?
Mitigation is restricted to organizations and personnel possessing applicable legal authority, and is subject to federal requirements governing authorized systems, training, certification, and employment. A facility typically plans its response with the law enforcement agency that holds that authority.
What sensors does a treatment plant, substation, or data center need?
Usually more than one. Radar provides non-cooperative detection and tracking, passive RF and Remote ID help identify the aircraft and its control link, acoustic sensing adds a passive check at short range, and EO/IR confirms what the other layers report. The site survey sets the mix.
Can drone detection be leased for a fixed facility?
Yes. Fixed-site detection can be quoted as a purchase or a lease. The lease structure gives a facility detection capability without a capital acquisition, with sustainment priced up front.
Will it work with our existing security systems?
IRIS supports SAPIENT, ASTERIX, CoT, and XML data interfaces for integration into common operating pictures, including the systems a facility already runs.
Get In Touch

Discuss Your Requirement

Send the requirement, the site, the authority you operate under, and the timeframe. We acknowledge inquiries within one business day and confirm next steps after reviewing the requirement. If we are not the right fit, we will tell you.

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