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Smart cities. Oil & gas facilities. Logistics warehouses. Maritime ports.
NEST® is the autonomous aerial infrastructure designed for environments where continuous coverage is not optional, it is the only viable solution.
Urban districts, open areas and territorial boundaries demand continuous aerial monitoring: traffic flows, security incidents, emergency response coordination; every hour, across every perimeter.
The resultReactive deployments that arrive too late, coverage gaps across the most critical urban zones, and no system capable of providing continuous, legally compliant coverage where it is needed most.
Existing drone-in-a-box systems are ground-based: they require a dedicated footprint and civil works, making installation on existing urban structures impossible. Each node operates in isolation: without coordination between units, coverage ends at the edge of a single deployment zone. And without BVLOS clearance over populated areas, a regulatory barrier that exists in virtually every jurisdiction worldwide, autonomous operations cannot legally cover the urban districts where monitoring is most needed. Competing systems with drones of equivalent size lack thermal imaging capability, limiting detection to standard visual data when thermal intelligence is critical for security and monitoring applications.
NEST® addresses each of these constraints directly. Elevated installation on existing poles, towers and rooftops eliminates the need for civil works or dedicated ground space. Aerial Mesh coordination enables real hand-off between nodes: a drone launched from one NEST can land on another across the city, creating continuous coverage without gaps. With two EASA Design Verification Reports clearing the system's aerial nodes for BVLOS operations over populated areas, Dronus is the only European system with the regulatory clearance to operate where others cannot.
Oil & gas assets are distributed across hazardous environments where human presence is restricted by law. Continuous monitoring is operationally and regulatorily critical: leaks, emissions, and perimeter anomalies occur at any hour and carry significant safety and environmental consequences.
The resultPeriodic manual inspections that leave blind spots between cycles, operational risk that cannot be eliminated, and regulatory exposure that grows with every unmanned hour.
Confined-space inspection drones address point-in-time inspection of tank and vessel interiors, not continuous outdoor monitoring across an active facility. Standard autonomous platforms are not ATEX-certified and cannot legally operate in explosive atmospheres. Ground-based systems require electrical components, charging units and control hardware positioned within or adjacent to the hazardous zone, creating potential ignition risk in explosive atmospheres. No existing solution provides continuous, autonomous monitoring of an active oil & gas facility: perimeter, internal zones, conduits and pipelines, without a pilot on site and without interrupting operations.
NEST® addresses each of these constraints directly. Installed at elevation on existing industrial structures outside the ATEX footprint, it removes the ignition risk entirely. Only the certified aerial node operates within the explosive atmosphere. The system runs continuously: autonomous takeoff, mission execution, and landing without a pilot on site. Real-time data, anomalies, emissions, fugitive gas leaks and perimeter status, is transmitted without interrupting ongoing operations.
Large-scale logistics facilities require continuous inventory monitoring across thousands of SKUs, in high-shelving environments that ground-based systems cannot reach. Manual cycle counts are slow, expensive, and error-prone. Safety compliance across vast industrial perimeters adds further operational burden.
The resultInventory discrepancies that go undetected for weeks, compliance gaps, and operational costs that grow with every square metre of facility.
Autonomous inventory scanning systems operate within defined indoor zones: they address stock counting at scheduled intervals, not continuous coverage across an entire facility. Ground-level systems cannot access high-shelving inventory without dedicated infrastructure. Existing solutions operate in isolation: indoor or outdoor, never both. And without autonomous recharging infrastructure, any system requires human intervention between missions, creating operational gaps precisely when monitoring is most needed.
NEST® is the only system that operates continuously across both indoor and outdoor environments: inventory scanning inside the warehouse, asset condition monitoring, safety compliance and perimeter surveillance outside. Deployed near the asset, it auto-recharges and redeploys autonomously during non-working hours, weekends, nights, without personnel on site and without scheduling constraints.
Ports require 24/7 monitoring across vast, complex perimeters: quays, terminals, fuel storage zones, vessel traffic. Environments are extreme: high winds, salt spray, full humidity, and ATEX zones in fuel areas. Manual patrol is neither practical nor cost-effective at scale. A gap in coverage is a security gap, and in ports, security gaps have operational and regulatory consequences.
Drone-in-a-box systems are designed for controlled environments: they fail rapidly in maritime conditions where high winds, salt spray, and constant humidity corrode components and compromise continuous operations. Being ground-based, they also lack the elevation needed to see across container stacks and terminal infrastructure. Fixed camera networks provide static coverage with no ability to respond dynamically to vessel traffic, perimeter breaches, or evolving incidents.
The resultPorts rely on human patrol for perimeter coverage, a solution that is neither continuous nor scalable across the distances modern terminals demand.
NEST® is designed to operate where conventional systems fail and to install where ground-based systems cannot reach. Elevated on existing port structures, cranes, towers, lighting poles, it provides continuous coverage across the entire terminal, with the vantage point needed to monitor beyond container stacks and vessel traffic. No civil works. No new ground infrastructure. Operational in days.
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