Airspace awareness over a dam and reservoir
Layered short- and medium-range radar with AI video confirmation, specified into a new dam security system.
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Customer
Water utility (through a security integrator)
Site
Dam and reservoir with a new security system
Solution
Layered Osprey short- and medium-range radar, CoreCommand® with advanced analytics at the edge, cameras with AI classification
Timeline
Designed and supplied
TKG role
Radar kits, CoreCommand and analytics licensing, survey and commissioning, first-year support
Open water leaves little time.
The utility was specifying a new security system for a dam and its reservoir.
It wanted to see drones over the dam structure, spillway and reservoir, where long open approaches over water leave little cover, but also little time if detection starts late.
The solution
- Short-range radar covering the dam crest, spillway and works areas
- Medium-range radar looking up the reservoir for early warning
- CoreCommand with an advanced-analytics license: radar fusion, camera slew-to-cue and AI classification of drone, bird and aircraft, processed at the edge, on site
- Survey and commissioning by TKG engineers, with first-year support on radars and software
What was delivered.
Coverage design
Layered SR/MR coverage of the dam structure and reservoir approach
Commissioning
Site survey and commissioning by TKG engineers
Support
First-year radar and software support
Keys to a successful implementation.
Write detection into the construction spec
So poles, power, conduit and network are built in rather than retrofitted.
Face medium-range radar up the reservoir
Over open water, the approach is where most of the warning time comes from.
Keep video analytics on site
An edge server suits utility security and network rules.
Connect alerts to dam operations
Agree how security, operations and local police respond.
Budget for annual support
So radars and software stay calibrated and current after year one.
Who did what.
TKG Security
Radar kits, CoreCommand and analytics, survey and commissioning, support
Integration partner
Security system integration, cameras, power, network and construction coordination
Customer, integrator and site identities withheld. Results are site-specific.
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