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When an unauthorised drone appears near critical infrastructure

Detecting a drone is only the start. Copyl gives municipalities and critical operators a shared picture, agent proposals and approvals, with a full trace.

The challenge

Unauthorised drones have quickly become a real problem at airports, ports, and energy and water facilities. They are hard to see, but detection is rarely the hard part. The hard part is what happens next:

  • Who sees what, and is it the same picture for everyone?
  • Who judges whether the flight is authorised?
  • Who decides, on what basis, and can it be followed up afterwards?

Municipalities, rescue services, regions and site operators need a shared picture and clear routines before something happens, not during.

How Copyl helps

Copyl does not supply sensors. Signals come from the detection equipment you already have or procure, through a controlled integration. Copyl takes over where the signal arrives:

  1. Protected sites on the map. The facilities and zones you are responsible for, with owners and contact paths.
  2. A signal becomes a case. The anomaly is linked to the site and gets a timeline that everyone involved can see.
  3. The agent proposes, a person decides. Agent Hub prepares the evidence and a proposed action. Nothing consequential happens until an authorised person approves it.
  4. Collaboration across organisations. Each actor sees the same picture, limited to what they are entitled to see.
  5. Traceability end to end. From signal through proposal and approval to outcome. The record holds up for follow-up, exercises and learning.

Where it fits

  • Civil preparedness: routines, exercises and a shared picture for municipalities and critical operators.
  • Smart City: the infrastructure, sensors and case flows a municipality already runs.
  • Defence: the same chain when the protection task goes beyond civil operations.

Status

This is a planned extension of Copyl’s civil preparedness track and is not yet in the product. The foundation exists: signal, proposal, approval and decision trail. If you want to influence how it is built, or test it early with your own operation, get in touch.

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