CORRECTIONS

Detection while the aircraft is still inbound.

Drone deliveries to a correctional facility take seconds and usually happen when staffing is thinnest. WarDragon monitors the airspace over the facility continuously, resolves drone communications to identified aircraft as they occur, and records each event, so the first indication of a delivery is not the contraband itself.

WATCHES

Facility airspace, continuously

IDENTIFIES

Aircraft, not just RF energy

RECORDS

Every flight, time-stamped

DELIVERS

Into the systems you already run

INCLUDED

Detection, with no recurring fee

The operational problem

Activity concentrates in the overnight hours, when the fewest staff are available to respond.

Perimeter fencing and camera coverage were designed for approaches on the ground, not from above.

Without detection, an incident is usually identified only after the contraband is recovered.

Events that cannot be documented at the time are difficult to investigate or prosecute later.

PERIMETER · YARD · APPROACH

Coverage comes from antennas, not a bigger processor.

What WarDragon delivers against it

Each of those is a gap in information rather than a gap in response. The system closes them in the same order.

Detection during the flight. Continuous monitoring across the standards drones actually use. Aircraft flown outside Remote ID are a material part of the problem here, so detection does not rely on that signal alone.

Identification, not just an alert. Supported communications are demodulated to unique identifiers, so an event is a specific aircraft rather than an unexplained return that staff have to go and check.

A record over time. Each detection is logged and correlated to a single flight. Over weeks that establishes the pattern of activity at a facility, which supports staffing decisions, investigations, and funding requests.

Open by design. Detections publish as CoT into the operating picture staff already use. Where a facility has no system to route into, options are configured as part of the deployment.

From DJI OcuSync through MAVLink, mLRS, and ELRS telemetry, WarDragon turns raw RF into identified aircraft and tracks. Encrypted DJI identification, including O4, is decoded with DragonScope. The library of supported standards grows with each software release, and every kit in the field receives it.

Specifying a system for a correctional facility

Corrections is a fixed-site mission, so the Drop-In configuration is usually the appropriate starting point. It installs once inside an existing enclosure, runs continuously without an operator present, and takes 12V or 24V DC power.

The Elite tier adds x86 processing and a second software-defined radio, giving the sensor headroom to run a wider set of demodulators at the same time, including the control and video links used by hand-built aircraft. Contraband delivery frequently involves aircraft that never broadcast Remote ID, so facilities treating those aircraft as part of the threat picture should specify Elite.

Detection distance is set by antenna selection and placement, not by processing tier. Standard configurations reach a wide range of drone signals at up to 5 km, and high-gain configurations extend beyond 10 km under favourable conditions. The WarDragon Multi-Antenna Mount supports up to six antennas on a single pole for yards and extended perimeters, and additional nodes aggregate into a single picture. Departments running several facilities sometimes add a Mobile unit that can be relocated to whichever site is seeing the most activity.

Detection is included with the kit and stays included. There is no recurring fee to keep it running and no connection to our servers. DragonScope is a separate capability rather than an unlock: it decodes encrypted DJI identification, including OcuSync 4, so a flight resolves to a serial number, a pilot location, and a takeoff point. Organisations that need attribution add it. Organisations that need to know an aircraft is there do not.

Your data, on your platform.

Detections are delivered into the systems a facility already operates rather than into software you have to buy from us. Detection itself carries no recurring fee and needs no cloud connection.

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Passive RF detection and situational awareness only. Performance varies by RF environment, antenna placement, aircraft type, and deployment configuration.