Cross Border Surveillance Drone

Cross border surveillance drones are transforming border security operations. Border patrol agencies designed these unmanned aerial systems to enhance their capabilities, providing real-time surveillance and threat detection across expansive and challenging terrains.

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Benefits of a Cross Border Surveillance Drone

Elistair’s drones offer multiple benefits that streamline border security operations and enhance the efficacy of law enforcement.

Wide-Area Coverage

These drones can swiftly survey extensive landscapes, ensuring continuous monitoring of large border areas and minimizing surveillance blind spots.

Mobile and Easy to Deploy

Elistair’s drones are easy to deploy and portable. Airborne in minutes from the back of a border patrol vehicle, they adapt seamlessly to different border security threats.

Actionnable Intelligence

Automated flights profiles and observation settings give border agents the capacity to focus on their border patrol mission, collect actionnable intelligence, and act effectively.

Weather Resistance

Elistair tethered drone solutions are IP54, ingress protection rated which allows users to continue their aerial surveillance missions even in case of poor weather conditions.

Day and Night Surveillance

Equipped with high-resolution and thermal imaging cameras, Elistair’s drones provide high image quality ensuring uninterrupted surveillance.

Cost-Effective Solution

By reducing the need for extensive border patrols, drones offer a cost-effective solution to border surveillance, saving resources while enhancing coverage.

[Webinar] How drone technologie reinforces border security operations?

The Example of Nestor Project

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Aggelos Vasileiou

Aggelos Vasileiou from SATWAYS Ltd, a Nestor Project’s member shares his expertise on existing border overwatch technologies and their limitations. He also explains how Nestor is answering to the need of harmonization. In this webinar, you will learn about the contribution of Elistair in the Nestor Project, with the Orion 2 tethered drone as a component of its border security dispositive.

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Elistair’s Cross Border Surveillance Drones

Elistair’s tethered drones provide a dynamic and effective response to border security issues such as illegal immigration, human trafficking, and drugs smuggling. They enable persistent, broad-range cross border surveillance, enhancing safety and control over expansive border areas.

These drones are quickly deployable in dangerous areas. They help border patrol agents, customs and border protection officials monitor difficult and vast terrains. They provide immediate situational awareness. This allows for effective monitoring of the areas.

Aerial surveillance with tethered drones reduces the need for extensive border agents by overseeing strategic crossing points and remote locations. Capable of operating at heights of 100 meters for extended periods, these autonomous solutions cover day-into-night missions effortlessly. Their small footprint and flexibility allow operators to change their zone of interest easily and cover larger distances.

Enhanced Border Surveillance with Drone Technology

Equipped with EO/IR sensors, cross border surveillance drones provide instant and permanent views of areas up to 10 square kilometers as well as secure data transmission. Integrating high-resolution and thermal imaging cameras, Elistair’s drones are optimal for both daytime and nighttime operations enabling the detection of illegal activities under the cover of darkness. The integration of these cameras ensures that border security agents can monitor movements discreetly and effectively.

Integration with Border Security Operations

Elistair designed its drones to integrate smoothly with existing border security operations, supporting a cohesive approach to border protection. They enhance the capabilities of border patrol agents by providing high-resolution imagery and real-time data, crucial for timely decision-making.

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“The Orion 2 complements the overall system as it provides an aerial view of the surrounding area where there is no permanent infrastructure available. It effectively covers a surveillance gap upon request, and continuously permits to operate even in the presence of an intercept or jammer where a conventional free flying drone would probably face issues communicating with the ground station.”

Aggelos Vasileiou

Research project manager staways ltd, Nestor project member

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Areas of Application of a Cross Border Surveillance Drone

Drug Smuggling Prevention

Elistair’s drones versatility allows them to be deployed in various scenarios critical to national security and public safety. Strategically located away from sensitive areas and equipped with advanced surveillance technology like thermal imaging cameras, Elistair’s tethered drones can discretly observe points of interests and identify drugs smugglers, helping dismantle complex smuggling routes that cross international borders.

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Human Trafficking Surveillance

Tethered drones can remain airborne for day-into-night missions to overwatch large perimeters. By providing continuous surveillance, drones are vital in identifying and disrupting networks involved in the trafficking of humans. When eqquiped with ISR technologies they can detect suspicious activities, helping to protect vulnerable victims of human trafficking.

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Monitoring of Illegal Immigration

Drones provide real time images, which are live retransmitted to a command post, often located miles away from the flight zone. This capability makes it easier to control areas known for illegal crossings and to ensure effective coordination of ground teams, supporting immigration laws and border security protocols.

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Drug Smuggling Prevention

Strategically located away from sensitive areas and equipped with advanced surveillance technology like thermal imaging cameras, Elistair’s tethered drones can discretly observe points of interests and identify drugs smugglers, helping dismantle complex smuggling routes that cross international borders.

Human Trafficking Surveillance

Tethered drones can remain airborne for day-into-night missions to overwatch large perimeters. By providing continuous surveillance, drones are vital in identifying and disrupting networks involved in the trafficking of humans. When eqquiped with ISR technologies they can detect suspicious activities, helping to protect vulnerable victims of human trafficking.

Monitoring of Illegal Immigration

Drones provide real time images, which are live retransmitted to a command post, often located miles away from the flight zone. This capability makes it easier to control areas known for illegal crossings and to ensure effective coordination of ground teams, supporting immigration laws and border security protocols.

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DroneBox designed for mobile operations, it can be integrated onto a border patrol vehicle for continuous border surveillance.

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SAFE-T 2

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FAQ about Cross Border Surveillance Drones

How do these drones integrate with existing border security systems?

Elistair’s drones are equipped with technology that allows seamless integration with existing border security infrastructures, ensuring that data and visuals are easily accessible to border patrol agents and law enforcement bodies.

Can these drones operate in adverse weather conditions?

Yes, these drones are engineered to be weather-resistant, capable of operating effectively under various environmental conditions including rain and wind.

What are the primary benefits of using thermal imaging cameras in drones?

Thermal imaging cameras allow the drones to capture clear images in low-light conditions, making it possible to monitor borders effectively at night and through obscured visibility conditions. Thermal imaging cameras on drones can detect heat signatures, helping to spot people or objects trying to cross the border illegally. This drone technology improves border patrol agents’ ability to watch over the border, respond quickly to potential threats and prevent security breaches.

How cost-effective are cross border surveillance drones?

Cross border surveillance drones are considered highly cost-effective because of their ability to cover large areas quickly and efficiently. These drones minimize the need for manned operations and extensive ground patrols, significantly reducing operational costs and enhancing the efficiency of border surveillance. The use of cross border surveillance drones can also improve safety for border patrol agents by reducing the need for them to physically patrol dangerous or remote areas.

How do drones enhance the efficiency of border patrols?

Drones provide a bird’s-eye view, covering large areas faster than ground patrols, and deliver real-time video feeds to command centers, significantly boosting situational awareness. Futhermore, drones enhance the efficiency of border patrols by providing a constant aerial surveillance that can be used to monitor activity along the border in real-time. This allows for quicker response times to any potential threats or incidents, as well as the ability to track movements of individuals or vehicles accross the border more effectively.

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