[ FIRE RADAR ]
Watchtower
On the roof. Watching the horizon. Always.
Watchtower is the fleet's fixed sentinel: a simple rotating camera system mounted on rooftops, continuously sweeping the horizon for the first signature of fire, and feeding every detection straight into AD.OS. It is an upgrade, not a prerequisite. The fleet flies on CAL FIRE and ALERTCalifornia data without a single Watchtower installed.
The cheapest minute of any fire response is the one before it's needed. Watchtower exists to buy those minutes: a rotating sensor head on the buildings a community already owns, watching the horizon without pause, without fatigue, without a shift change.
When it sees something, it doesn't send an email. The detection lands in AD.OS as a verified track on the common operating picture: the same picture the swarm launches against.
Deliberately simple hardware, deliberately serious placement: the rooftops that already overlook the terrain that burns.
Capabilities
01
Continuous rotation
A rotating sensor head sweeping the full horizon in repeating cycles: persistent watch, not sampled snapshots.
02
Rooftop mounting
Installs on the tops of buildings a community already owns, overlooking the terrain that burns.
03
Direct-to-console detection
Detections land in the AD.OS common operating picture as tracks: the trigger for the fleet's response.
04
Network by design
Multiple Watchtower units overlap into a detection net, each one another set of eyes on the same picture.
Specifications
Data plate · Veridis Defense
VRD-WTR-01
- Role
- Early fire detection · Horizon watch
- [DESIGN]
- Form
- Rooftop rotating sensor head
- [DESIGN]
- Sweep coverage
- Specification forthcoming at field test
- [PENDING]
- Detection range
- Specification forthcoming at field test
- [PENDING]
[ IN THE SYSTEM ]
Where a Watchtower is installed it is the first alarm, launching Ember long before the fire is anyone's phone call. Where there isn't one, AD.OS takes the same cue from CAL FIRE incident data or an ALERTCalifornia camera and the response runs identically. Detection to deployment, one unbroken chain on one console.