Solution

Critical Infrastructure

Earlier, evidence-backed airspace awareness around important sites.

Operating context

Power stations, water works, telecom hubs, fuel depots and similar sites share one concern: something unexpected in the air above or near them, and no clear way to tell what it is, where it came from or how long it has been there.

Questions asked here

  • What is in the airspace around the site right now, and what is it based on?
  • Has this object been seen before, and where did it come from?
  • Which observation is the site's own sensing and which is a report from elsewhere?

What is difficult today

Sites are watched by separate tools that each show part of the air picture. An operator must join them by hand, and the join leaves no record of what was known when a decision was taken.

Operational flow

Where the weight falls in this environment

  1. Observe
  2. Correlate
  3. Verify
  4. Track
  5. Understand
  6. Prioritise review
  7. Alert
  8. Record
  9. Review
  10. Improve

The weight falls on verifying and recording: every statement about the airspace keeps its sources, and the record lets a later review see exactly what was known at the time.

A worked environment state

Three moments from a synthetic scenario, in relative terms.

A worked environment state Synthetic example
MomentWhat is seenWhat is stated
1A passive source reports movement near the perimeterOne source holds it; it is not yet confirmed
2A second, independent source sees the same areaThe two reports are related and the confidence is stated with its reasons
3The shift endsThe record of what was seen, and from which sources, passes to the next shift unchanged
Unified state: Data table
ItemValue
Unified stateSource A, Source B
Unified state RD05Data status: IllustrativeEvidence level: E0 · ConceptQuestion answered: What does a unified state rest on?One small state glyph sits above the sources that support it, each listed by name. The glyph is never shown without its support underneath.Limitation: The glyph is a drawn symbol. It is not a detection.
Data freshness: Data table
ItemUpdates
Under 1 min62
1 to 5 min28
Over 5 min10
Data freshness CH08Data status: Synthetic dataEvidence level: E0 · ConceptQuestion answered: How fresh is the data?Bars group example updates by age (under a minute, one to five minutes and over five minutes). Most updates are fresh, with a thin tail of older ones.Limitation: Ages are invented. No latency figure is implied for any real system.

Twin and context view

The same state can be opened in the digital twin, where its layers, its sources and its record sit side by side.

Open the digital twin

What we can show today

This page claims nothing above the level of the projects it rests on.

What this does not claim

  • The page describes a design for awareness around a site; it does not describe protection or response.
  • No detection range, accuracy or response time is stated, because none has been measured.
  • Most linked projects are designs not yet validated in the field; the evidence level of each is shown below.

Responsible positioning

AIR NEXUS provides awareness and a record. It does not promise protection and it does not act on what it shows. The decision stays with the site's owners and the competent authorities.

Projects behind this