CAMPUS AND SCHOOLS
Everyone is covering the field. Nobody is covering the sky.
Campus security is built around ground access: gates, ticketing, bag policy, post assignments, resource officers. None of it looks up. WarDragon deploys with the team for a game or a commencement, or installs permanently at a stadium or a medical center, and puts the airspace into the same picture the command post is already watching.
WATCHES
Venue airspace, on and off schedule
IDENTIFIES
Aircraft, and operators with DragonScope
DEPLOYS
Game day, or permanently
DELIVERS
Into the systems you already run
INCLUDED
Detection, with no recurring fee
The operational problem
A full stadium is outdoors, on a published schedule anyone can look up, with a soft perimeter and no coverage above it.
When a drone does appear, the command post usually finds out because someone in the stands is pointing at it.
Commencement, homecoming, arrival and dismissal, visiting officials, and demonstrations all put people outside in open space on a known timetable.
Medical centers, laboratories, and central plants sit inside the campus footprint and draw a different kind of interest than athletics does.
The cost is a command post making decisions about a crowd without knowing what is above it. Posted policy does not produce a detection, and an aircraft nobody logged is an incident that cannot be investigated on Monday or explained to a board later.
The flight on game day is also rarely the first one. Aerial survey of a building, a route, or a grounds layout ahead of a planned act is the reason school safety directors ask about this at all, and it is the flight a campus with no detection never knew happened.
STADIUM · QUAD · GROUNDS · PLANT
One system, a different venue each week.
What WarDragon delivers against it
Campus airspace is a scheduling problem as much as a coverage problem. Most of the year needs nothing; a dozen dates need everything.
Coverage is not limited to Remote ID. WarDragon receives Remote ID broadcasts over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, identifies DJI OcuSync activity, and on Elite kits covers FPV control and video links and open telemetry standards through a second software-defined radio. The demodulation library grows with each software release and reaches kits already in the field.
Standard antenna configurations detect a wide range of drone signals at estimated distances of up to 5 km. High-gain configurations extend detection beyond 10 km under favorable conditions. These are estimates rather than specifications: RF environment, antenna height, line of sight, and aircraft type all materially affect what a given installation achieves.
Detection distance comes from antenna selection, height, placement, line of sight, and the RF environment rather than from the processor inside the kit. Antennas are specified per site.
Drones use several distinct classes of radio link, and each one asks something different of a receiver. See what actually flies, and what it takes to see it.
What it will not do
It does not jam, disable, take control of, or otherwise interfere with an aircraft. Detection is passive; the system only listens. Under federal law, mitigation measures are restricted to specific agencies with express statutory authority.
It does not detect an aircraft that transmits nothing at all. A fully autonomous flight with no control link is outside the reach of RF detection of any kind, ours included. Radar is the answer to that class of aircraft.
It does not determine intent, and it does not decide anything. Output is a detection record delivered to the systems you already run. What happens next belongs to whoever holds the authority to act on it at that venue.
It does not extend beyond property the institution controls. Coverage is scoped to the campus footprint and to the institution’s authority over it.
Specifying a system for a campus or district
Most institutions begin with one venue or one event, prove the capability against their own airspace, and expand from there.
Campus work is mostly episodic, so the Mobile configuration is usually the appropriate starting point. It ships in a hardened carry case, is deployable by the personnel using it, runs on vehicle DC power or 120V AC, and requires no installation at a venue. A district can move one unit between schools across a season.
The Elite tier adds x86 processing and a second software-defined radio, extending coverage to FPV control and video links and open telemetry standards. Open-ground venues attract exactly those aircraft, so Elite is worth specifying where stadiums, fields, and quads are the concern. The second radio is fitted at manufacture and is not a later addition.
Institutions with a site that needs watching continuously — a medical center, a central plant, a laboratory building — add a Drop-In system there. It installs inside an enclosure already at the site and runs with nobody present. Both configurations run the same platform, so a mixed deployment needs no second training.
Coverage across a large campus is a question of antenna selection and node count rather than processing tier. Antenna packages and the WarDragon Multi-Antenna Mount shape coverage, and additional nodes aggregate into one picture.
The DragonScope Drone ID Service applies where an event has to support an investigation or a conduct proceeding. Baseline detection identifies a flight and correlates it; DragonScope adds serial-number attribution and pilot location where the transmission carries it. Licensed per sensor.
Bought once, used by everyone.
A campus system is specified by one department and relied on by several. Detections publish into the systems the institution already runs rather than into software bought from the vendor who sold the sensor, so police, athletics, and emergency management see the same picture without anyone logging into a separate platform. Detection itself carries no recurring fee and needs no cloud connection.
Passive RF detection and situational awareness only. Performance varies by RF environment, antenna placement, aircraft type, and deployment configuration. Terms and policies.