Site Security: When Guards and Cameras Aren't Enough.

Today's live demo is focused on commercial site security. We're showing how teams can get more coverage and faster verification without scaling their headcount. And before we begin, I have a quick question for all of you. What do you wanna see today?

Today's live. We have a lot of flexibility, and we wanna address your specific interests and questions. So please put any questions that you do have in the chat, and we'll answer them throughout today's session and at the end during q and a.

So let's get started.

We've had over seventy five conversations over the last six ish months with commercial security leaders responsible for large venues, data centers, and corporate campuses, etcetera.

And three themes come up time and time again.

The first is that guard programs cost more each year while results flatten.

Second, fixed cameras and foot patrols create creating inconsistent coverage, so gaps persist.

And third, alarms are overwhelmingly false, somewhere between ninety four and ninety eight percent of them actually, which consumes a lot of time and budget.

So our conclusion is the the problem isn't effort. It's scalability and it's signal quality. So I think the question we're all asking or we're all here to ask today is how do we increase our coverage and reduce our noise without spending more money?

So to reiterate, risk and coverage requirements are are rising, but most budgets and headcounts are not. So leaders we're speaking with feel like they've hit the ceiling on what static tools can deliver.

Requirements are are really just shifting towards always on adaptive coverage, proactive deterrence, and, again, higher signal to noise ratio so your teams can stay focused on the real threats.

And what's the answer to this equation?

We think it's autonomous drones that live in docks at the sites that you're responsible for, and they're deployed as an always on system.

And to be clear, the point isn't about the drone itself. It's the capability that drone gives you. You get mobile coverage, rapid verification without adding more headcount. And it only works because we deliver it end to end. We provide the drone, the dock, remote operation software, plus services and integration. So your team isn't stitching together five or six different vendors to make this program a reality.

And the what we're seeing is this is becoming the new standard in site security because it maps to three daily security workflows, which is patrolling, deterring, and responding.

So for patrol, you can schedule autonomous missions day or night, rain or shine, and you can automate those missions to be randomized routes or randomized timing so it's unpredictable to bad actors.

On deterrence, if something looks wrong, you can put a visible presence overhead, and our drones can be equipped with a spotlight and a speaker. And, effectively, this is how you're able to stop crime before it even starts.

And on response, when an alarm triggers, the drone is airborne in seconds. It can fly forty five miles an hour, and it puts eyes on scene really, really quickly.

It also can plug into your IDS and BMS workflows, and, ultimately, it lets you clear alarms really fast without having to get out of your chair in most cases.

And above all else, this is designed for remote operations, so it's coverage from anywhere.

A little bit about what you'll see today. So we're gonna launch a mission. We're gonna run patrol coverage, monitor multiple locations, and detect things that matter, like people or vehicles where they're not supposed to be.

And we're gonna act through verification, deterrence, or escalation. And we're doing this remotely. I'm in Minneapolis. Lee is in Seattle, and we're operating at live sites in Fort Collins, Colorado today in San Mateo, California.

So we're thousands of miles away from what we'll be looking at, and that distance is the point.

A quick note, it's the solution isn't theoretical. It's proven at scale today across law enforcement agencies, critical infrastructure companies like electric utilities, and in the defense sector.

In the US, that that includes over a thousand public safety agencies, nine hundred critical infrastructure organizations, and we're deployed across every branch of the military plus with allied forces globally.

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So overall, we have thirty five hundred customers in the industries that keep our society running, and they've flown two point eight million times.

We're averaging about sixty five flights an hour, which is roughly one a minute. And, ultimately, the point here is that utilization only happens when the system is dependable in real operations. This is real. It's being used today.

And I wanna touch on the economics really quick. So one Dockhive, which is three dock drones running twenty four seven, will deliver roughly the security hours equivalent of fifteen full time cards.

This is powerful. That equivalency comes from two buckets that we see at most sites. It's routine patrol coverage and false alarm checks.

So with a hundred percent of your routine patrols handled autonomously with the drone that, again, goes forty five miles an hour and being able to clear ninety four percent of those false alarms without dispatching anyone, your teams get their time back for real issues. And as sites scale, the economics scale too. You're scaling coverage without scaling headcount.

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So with that, we're gonna get into the live demo. I'm gonna pass it over to Lee. Before we do, I'd encourage you to pull up your phone out or click the link in the comment, comment section. This is a, what we call a ready link, and it's a way to remotely view the drone's POV and ultra high quality in real time. We'll get into why this is helpful in a little bit. Lee, take it away.

Sure thing. Thank you, Tommy. Yep. Hopefully, everyone's scanning that code. If not, we'll give you another opportunity to scan them as well throughout this.

But I'm gonna share my screen now. And, as I'm doing that, I do wanna say thanks for dropping in questions already. We're gonna try to, look them over, and I'm gonna weave those in.

Totally encourage you to ask more questions throughout. We do wanna make this interactive. It's, kinda more fun with me when I don't have to follow a script, which which makes that great. So, Tommy, can you see everything?

I can. Alright. As noted, I am out in Seattle, but I'm gonna take you to two sites today. So, right now, I'm looking at a facility that we do testing in in Fort Collins, and you can kinda see the facility map there, some things about it. This is Skydio remote ops. The fleet page is where you usually land into the product. This is where you can see where your docs are at, what's happening.

Our flight deck is the experience where you fly from, which we'll get into a lot today.

But where I wanna start out is actually in our missions. And we talked about patrol and doing routine. You can build all types of missions. We're not gonna build one on the fly today, but the great thing is once you build a mess mission, they're repeatable and schedule schedule able.

You can do that through a traditional, like, waypoint. You can actually fly your mission live, which is really great for security use cases because that way you can set up your shots and what you can't, and what you capture to capture those dead spaces that you may have today. And you can also do it from a map file as well. So for this one, I'm gonna do just a really simple mission.

There's a solar field here, and it does have some gates. So we're gonna go do some gate checks on the solar field. And this will just give you a feel for what's capable of the system. This is only gonna be a few, what we call, waypoints or or picture locations.

Generally, these are we can build these pretty complex. They run for twenty, thirty minutes, the life of, you know, the mission time of your drone as well.

So a few things are happening here. I just went into the mission. It's loading up in the system. You're gonna see the view here of the complex and then ready to launch.

Real quick, I wanna call out this facility that we use is actually an airport, lightly used, but we've built in some safety features with our geofences that I wanna call out. And you do the same and we do help you map the same thing with your facility. Where can you fly? What do you wanna stay away from?

Green keeps you inside that. Orange keeps you out. And then we've even built some pretty these are three-dimensional. We've built some pretty sophisticated stuff, which you'll see in a second here, is I can actually go in and we'll be flying a tunnel underneath the runway.

We know this is the safe operating area, so that's how we're gonna fly our points to. And then you can see points on the map where we'll be flying. With that, it's a windy day. We're actually on the edge of our operating.

We can operate up to about thirty miles of a hour of consistent winds and a little higher in gust.

You'll kind of maybe see some wind warnings today. This facility was getting, gust nearing thirty just a little about ago, but it looks like the winds actually calmed down, and we're doing pretty good.

So as you can see, my hands right now, I'll put them up here, off the keys.

So this is the autonomy part. Generally, we're flying this, you know, ad hoc and sending it now, but you could schedule this to the morning and afternoon. Like, let's say, crews were leaving. You know, you just wanna make sure they closed all the gates. And, we don't obviously own this solar field, but I have found the gates open a time or two.

Tom, anything you wanna talk about there?

No. So far, so good. I think what's important here so far is is these geofences. That really makes sure that whenever you fly, you are flying compliant with FAA laws, and it makes it so there is just no risk in going the drone going where it shouldn't be going.

Alright. So you can see it's coming to its first waypoint. It's gonna somewhat frame the picture. And then once it gets on it's a little windy. So once it gets on-site, it'll take that picture of the gate. And if you're not seeing anything on the ready link, please refresh it, or I just threw it back up on the screen as well. And then when we get back, we'll take a look at some of these pictures that we're taking now.

Another thing to note, that we're doing with some customers, I did see a question about integrations. There's a bunch of integrations we'll talk about. There's one of what you wanna do with your data after it's captured.

There's some real time integrations. So we are working with, customers who have third party integrations to do real time AI off of these. So they're taking the same feed, basically, that you're seeing from ReadyLinks. They're running it through AI to identify people, vehicles, and other types of anomalies.

So that's the integration piece, and I'll show a little bit more about that in a second. So now our mission's over. The drone is heading back. Do you wanna note on the map side? The drone has a capability we call Pathfinder, and this is smart mission routing. So it's taking a look at both the geofences and if you're in kind of a, area with buildings and it knows your area. It's gonna pick the smartest path back, and that works in conjunction with Skydio's autonomy and obstacle avoidance.

Hey, Lee. Real quick.

A point there on just Pathfinder and and all of the geofencing and everything else.

For all of you who have complex sites, where you've got restricted air rules or you've got, urban canyons or you've got buildings and things like that, and you don't necessarily want an expert pilot to be always be on the sticks, this capability just gives you that easy way to set up those rules. So the every mission that you fly, the drone is doing the navigating, and it takes the cognitive load off of those operators. And it also ensures that you get the the the data or the insights that you need the quickest, whether that be taking a picture of a door or verifying an alarm, etcetera, etcetera.

Alright. Genentech pulled up, and I'm seeing that one of our fence sensors is triggering.

Do you see that in

Yeah.

This is a good segue to the next kind of piece we had. Talked about the integrations. So one of the things you could do is integrate in your alerting systems. So right now, I can see an alert just popped up. It's a fence alarm in zone five. All I simply have to do is click on that. And now even though the drone was finishing up its mission, I'm just gonna retask it to respond to that alarm.

And now as a pilot, and getting situational awareness is what's great is while it's automatically flying, I can actually go in and with a capability we call free look, I can get control of the gimbal. So now instead of worrying about flying, I can just worry about getting eyes on the situation. I know I'm getting close to that alarm, and I think I see what our, alarm is sensing on right now.

This also allows you to just give let's say, for example, you're you're in communication with responding teams.

While the drone is flying, you're seeing what's happening in real time. You can be coordinating those individuals on the ground without having to have hands on the controls.

Alright. And since it's windy, it looks like our assailant has plastered their self up against the line today. So this is probably the cause of our, alarm. We like to have a little fun with these, so we stage out some mannequins.

But if this were a real situation, this is the like Matt just said, you'd be able to get eyes on the subject. You'd be taking live video. You can take pictures. You're able to communicate this situation and keep tabs on it, and take the applicable action.

I've actually seen these. You know, sometimes we'll be doing inspections. We've actually seen, people stealing copper while, inspections were going on. So there's also some multiuse case aspects to this as well.

We we did get a question about, the the types of cameras, Lee. And I just wanted to let folks know, for those of you that are on the ReadyLink and, Tommy, thanks for sharing that again. You can actually toggle the thermal to see that in that view. So if you have that pulled up down the lower right screen of the ReadyLink, you'll see a little ability to toggle thermal, and you can see that as well. And the beauty of this is for those individuals who are watching what the drone is seeing, the pilot can have the heads up display and see the the live view, so to speak. But the responding officers or command staff, for example, can be viewing thermal, and it doesn't change what the pilot sees. So it gives you that optionality to be able to truly get as much situational awareness as possible.

Great. Good questions. Keep the questions flowing. So when, Matt and Tommy are watching them, we love to answer them in real time, or I can always kinda retask the drone to do some other stuff.

So I do I'm gonna watch this come in for a landing. Always one of my favorite parts. We can switch to the doc cam. Make that nice and big.

Alright. Successful landing. One thing that's great here too is we have a customizable post flight report.

This one is set up for some of our public safety things they'd wanna capture, like where the call is within Overwatch. But you can imagine in a, in a security use case, you wanna talk about patrol, nothing found, or the temp the types of events you're looking to capture. So we can customize those for you as well. I'm just gonna x out of this and get back into the I'm gonna exit the flight experience or flight deck, get back into, management here. So a few other things we wanna talk about.

The media side, it's gonna immediately download, from this mission.

It's not up yet, but it'll just take a few seconds. Well, it starts I did fly this this morning, so just kind of a little teaser on that.

These are the images I got. I can scroll into that, and then I can really kinda punch in. I can clearly see that the gate is locked and everything is good there.

Yeah. And, folks, you can also, as you plan your missions, you can, get as close as necessary to get the kind of detail that you need and and configure all those settings. So depending on what you're looking for, it's easily configurable to capture the right data that you need.

Yeah. I mean, you can really punch in on stuff. We have some folks that are actually capturing gauge readings with this. I just built a really simple grab it and go mission for this demo today.

Another thing we do have is some reporting. I'm gonna show you that most of Skydio was off during the holidays because we were not flying the site. But this is a great way to just kinda get a picture of what you're what you're doing. And then the one I like and just to show you another piece is, we do know some folks in the security side use some Axon cameras.

We have a native integration with Axon. So you can see that all my data here goes to Axon Evidence as soon as it's done. And then that way, you get it off of our system, and you can follow your retention policies from Axon Evidence. That said, we also have integrations with Genentech, couple like New World.

There's a few others that we have. We have, like, twenty to twenty five kind of out of the box integrations, and then we can also have an open API structure that makes it really easy to import things like alarms or kick these out to any of the tools that you use today.

And just to chime in, what that means at our customer sites, they're integrating this feed directly into their their GSI.

And then when they're using the AI detection models, they can even go as far as these AI models are looking for things like open doors. When one is found, it can send an email out or a text message about or send an alert, and notify the appropriate people. So it's just taking the man hours out of the equation.

Great. Alright. So now I just pulled up our other site, and this is now taking you out to San Mateo, California.

Inert here in our flight deck map because this is generally where we see most of our folks works work. It gives you an idea of where your drones are at. In this location, we have two docks ready to go. And then I've steeded this with a few alarms that we're gonna look at today.

The one I wanna focus on first is a suspicious person in the parking garage. This is super common with our, security customers. I have a few stories of, not just suspicious people, but I heard one customer the other day was talking about how they were having an ice person fell on top of their parking garage, and they were able to, respond, figure out someone fell, and then get the appropriate, medical attention for that person. So these things don't just always catch bad guys.

They can just help the the normal everyday things that happen.

And, Lee, where

are we where are we at now?

Where are we flying?

We're in San Mateo. This is is the Skydio corporate headquarters. Our demo playground a little bit. As you can see, I'm kinda pivot around the system, play with that map. You can see Pathfinder's actually working again here. It's taking you around some geofences that we set for this area. I'm gonna close this panel up to give everyone a little better view and move this map over.

So once again, I'm able to if this were a call and we had that suspicious activity in the parking garage, first thing I'm gonna wanna do is kind of clear out this area. And you can kind of tell pretty easily that, one, we have a lot of docs here because this is where we test a lot of our equipment, and usually these are running, nearly twenty four seven a day. I'm not seeing any activity up here. So one of the great things about Skydio is, a lot of y'all have flown drones in the past.

You know that it's pretty scary to go down low. But with Sky's obstacle avoidance on, the drone has some navigation cameras on it that kinda build a bubble around it so it can operate in some pretty hairy areas. And, really, the benefit of that, it's not just cool tech, the benefit is you can kind of go to places where others can't. So I'm gonna show that example by going down this parking garage.

And now this is a great opportunity to see. It's dark. I can't see anything, but we can kinda turn day into night by switching to that thermal camera.

Oh, this is a different ReadyLink, so let me pull this up real quick. Give you another shot to open up a camera, take a picture of this. And then that way, you can toggle between that map and the map view, the thermal view, or the live camera view.

And the link's also in the chat, folks. There's a couple of flights on there, but just grab the one with Lee.

You'll be able to follow along for today if

you want.

Yeah. I think I opened that up to everyone. So now what I'm gonna do is go off of here. One cool thing, I'm gonna just show you the capabilities of that obstacle to.

We talk about deterrence. Right? Tommy mentioned that we now have a number of cases, especially in our public safety side, where we see people surrendering to a drone. In this case, if you probably dropped down a drone and you did find this person there, they know something's up.

They're either gonna leave or get out of this area. I'm just gonna go one step. Whoop. I was gonna say I'm gonna go one step further today and down into this area.

Pete, can I chime in here quick? So Go for it. Wanna I wanna point out a couple of things. So number one, we we had eyes on scene within a minute. That that's longer than it would take the security guard to come sit up from his desk, get in the car, and just start the car.

We're already there. We already have visibility, much less that guard is it's gonna take him several minutes to get up to this fifth floor of the parking garage.

Another thing is this is an environment where a lot of other drones would struggle to fly.

It's GPS denied, and there's a lot of things that you could run into or things that could go wrong.

But our intelligence means that you don't need extra expert pilots. So with our obstacle avoidance, which even works in the dark, makes flights like this possible for just about anybody. You don't have to be an expert pilot, and you don't have to worry about your drone, losing connection or running into obstacles in environments like this.

Yeah. Great call outs, Tommy. So that's just another place where we we clear this. We we take advantage of the obstacle avoidance and the GPS denied environment. Surprisingly, I am getting a little bit of a GPS signal in here, which is rare.

So we must must be getting a perfect angle right now. But what Skydio does do, if GPS is completely denied, is it builds a visual picture of the environment. So you're always able to navigate successfully in these tight spaces.

Alright. I'm gonna get out of here, and we're kind of done with, most of our scenarios today. But I do just wanna call out a few features that help our customers do things like gaining situational awareness and just to kinda give you a preview of some of the, interesting things that's coming along with kind of AI detections as well. So first thing first things first, I'm gonna get up a little higher.

And if you're at a large facility, one thing that I see all the time is no matter how much you drive something or where you're at, you can get disoriented. So we have these nice AR overlays, especially gives you street names, addresses, punch in lots of good data there. And it's easy just to toggle those on with a click of a key.

Another another thing that actually is releasing to all of our customers next week, so you're gonna get a good preview of this, is starting to build the the foundation of our detection systems as well. We call it Skydio Shadow, and it's gonna allow you to both track and follow people, and I'll kinda show that, either people or vehicles. So right now, our model is specifically built for people or vehicles. I'm gonna grab a car, and now it's visually tracking.

So what I'm gonna do now is hit follow. And if you check out the map, you can see it's got the car, and the drone's gonna follow it as much as it can. And this is pretty cool. It's tracking it and kind of using some smart AI detection to even guess where that car is gonna go. So you saw it reacquire it after it got a couple passed through a couple trees, couple blind spots.

So that that's pretty cool.

Then One

one thing to to add just in when you when you've got this lock on, especially if you're dealing with a vehicle in a keep out area or maybe there's a deterrence and a person gets into a vehicle and you need to be able to capture a license plate view, the drone can be locked on that vehicle as that vehicle is moving away, and you could be zooming in and capturing the license plate whether you wanna be doing in some sort of an act after action, report and or sharing with local authorities.

It makes it super easy to do that. Again, so you don't have to focus on the flying. You can, stay focused on the mission and and, and resolving it. So Yeah.

On top of

that, real quick, I think one thing to point out too is our drones are five g connected as well as radio.

So your only limitation with range is battery time as long as you have five g service. So you could follow for a long time.

I also wanna point out, like, if we were actually in a a real security situation here and found an intruder or, you know, a person of interest.

I'm in Minneapolis. Lee's in Seattle. We're not familiar with the streets in San Mateo. How do we report to the authorities where this is taking place? Easy. You flip on that overlay, and you can say, oh, at the intersection of Glendora and Campus Drive rather than being like, oh, there's the highway, vice versa, you know, etcetera.

This is really important when you're doing twenty four seven night operations because it's really easy to get disoriented, not know where you're at in the dark. It's hard to see city streets and and and identifying objects.

So those AR overlays make it, incredibly useful, when you're trying to guide individuals, to different streets or different points of interest, etcetera, in those conditions.

Yeah. And what's great is you this and I think as Matt mentioned, this kinda works over the Zoom so you can keep eyes on it. The thing that I find I really liked about this feature of using it is, I've been flying for years. I'm an okay pilot, but I'm not a great pilot.

This will keep you centered and on task. Like, my hands are off the keys right now. We're watching that gentleman go. He's perfectly centered, which just really helps when you are, you know, in more of a a you know, this isn't a high risk situation by any means.

But when you're in a more tense situation, you wanna keep that person centered and then give the folks that are watching this the best view. This tool is gonna be super valuable for that.

Oftentimes, a lot of operators have to to communicate while operating the drone, and that involves radios or other mediums to be able to get the message out. So having the lock also makes that easier to be able to get on the radio, communicate in real time, and not have to worry about flying the drone.

You are correct there. Alright. So this is a great time. If anyone wants to, you know, be brave, take themselves off of mute, ask us questions live, we'd love to hear from you. We did set this up to be conversational.

I'm just gonna fly fly around for a couple more seconds, see if there's anything else we need to show off today. Oh, there is one more feature that I find kind of interesting. Let's say you've located, let's look around here. We're gonna look over on this football field here because there's usually some action going on.

And, oh, maybe one person out today. So let's see where we're at.

Let's say you're in a situation where maybe you detected someone. Let's say this guy is running, and he's not supposed to be there, although he's definitely allowed to be there. One thing you can do is hit this button k.

And now you'll notice in the map over here, this little blue marker showed up. And what that allows you to do is if you were following a suspect or you thought something was dropped or there's a place of interest, this gives you a reference point to go find it.

I can go in there and edit it, and I could say, like, you know, drop bag.

So maybe it was somebody stealing something. We thought they hit it. So now I have a reference point that I can go back to and find that. So it's just an easy way to keep your eyes on the situation and yet mark what is happening.

And the second thing was I was able to use shadow. So the whole time while I was typing that in, I I maintain that lock on the person. I didn't have to worry about losing them. So just great features to have in place there.

Close that back up.

And Jim's got an interesting question just as it relates to indoor DFR. Is anybody doing it today, etcetera? And, Jim, just to answer that, currently, we have our r ten drone that works directly with our DFR command and does we're doing indoor DFR today with select PDs. R ten is is, very quickly coming up, very soon. But in terms of the indoor DFR, the Conop, typically, the way it works is we put these in patrol cars, and the responding officers, when they need to clear a room or get eyes indoors, we'll launch that. And then that particular drone is commandeered using the same software that you see right here.

And the remote pilot from wherever your, central operations would be would take over that drone and be able to clear the room while the responding officer goes back to servicing the call. It's a similar, con op that you can put, for private security They're at Exxon. So if you've got a building, you need to get a drone inside. If you have a person on the ground who has the r ten that can launch it, you can come and gear it and get it indoors and get eyes on scene without putting any officers or responding individuals in harm's way.