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ICDATTNG

SL-06 — Service line

Drones

Enterprise unmanned aerial systems for public safety, emergency response and infrastructure surveillance — including scheduled pipeline and right-of-way inspection — supplied, deployed and sustained with operator training.

We supply and field two enterprise-class multirotor tiers: the compact EVO Lite Enterprise class for rapid single-operator deployment, and the heavier EVO Max 4T-XE for sustained tactical and public-safety operations.

EVO Lite Enterprise — an 866 g airframe folding to 210×123×95 mm, carried in a backpack. The 640T variant carries a dual gimbal (48 MP, 1/2-inch CMOS visible-light camera with 16× digital zoom alongside a 640×512 thermal imager, 9.1 mm focal length, −20 °C to 550 °C measurement range, ±3 °C accuracy); the 6K variant carries a 1-inch CMOS sensor for high-sensitivity daylight imaging. Up to 40 minutes endurance, 12 km video transmission and three-way binocular vision obstacle avoidance.

EVO Max 4T-XE — an integrated four-sensor payload combining wide, zoom and thermal cameras with a laser rangefinder, on an airframe rated to 42 minutes flight time, 720° obstacle avoidance, IP43 ingress protection and a −19 °C to 50 °C operating range. Autel SkyLink 3.0 provides a 20 km (12.4 mile) transmission range, A-Mesh 1.0 mesh networking links multiple aircraft and controllers, and the autonomy stack navigates in GPS-denied environments.

Mission software provides split-screen visible/thermal/map output, 3D map planning, multiple mission types, offline maps for weak-network areas, and AI target recognition that automatically detects and plots people, vehicles and boats. Data handling includes AES-encrypted media and flight logs, consent-gated log upload and RTMP live streaming to a control point.

Application — pipeline and right-of-way inspection. Nigeria's trunk lines, product pipelines and flow-station networks run for thousands of kilometres through swamp, creek, farmland and dense urban right-of-way. Foot and vehicle patrol cannot cover that length at the frequency the risk demands, and by the time a report reaches the control room the loss has usually already happened. ICDATT NG replaces the patrol gap with scheduled autonomous flight: long-endurance tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft fly the full corridor without a runway, multirotors handle close inspection of valve stations, manifolds, flow stations, tank farms and jetties, and field-deployed docking nests keep aircraft forward-based so a sortie launches and recharges without a crew driving to site.

Every sortie feeds one command picture. Our integrated command system streams live visible and thermal video with the aircraft plotted on the route map, applies AI recognition to flag people, vehicles and boats inside the right-of-way, and holds the imagery and flight log as an evidential record against a reference number. Encroachment, illegal tapping, spill signature, vegetation growth and third-party construction are reported against pipeline chainage rather than a vague map pin.

The inspection package is scalable, and we field it in two configurations. Configuration 1 — ultra-long route coverage: tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft (106 minutes endurance, 108 km/h, 45 km link, five-minute set-up) working from an IP55 docking nest with automatic flight and recharging, cloud tasking and encrypted data handling, with staged relay repeaters extending the command link and remote 4G monitoring of each relay. Configuration 2 — facility and station coverage: EVO Max 4T multirotors (no blind spots, 10× optical zoom, A-Mesh networking, 42 minutes flight time) working from an EVO Nest with a 7 km operating radius, IP55 protection, 25-minute fast charge and AES-256 encryption. Both configurations report into the same integrated command system, giving autonomous, blind-spot-free inspection of routes no manned patrol can cover at frequency.

Application — urban patrol and surveillance. ICDATT NG pairs multirotor aircraft, docking nests and the integrated command system to cover the ground fixed cameras and foot patrols cannot: open spaces, complex terrain, high-rise frontage, school and campus perimeters, markets and shopping centres, key road sections and crowded outdoor events. Aerial patrol restores prevention and supervision where police manpower is the binding constraint: an aircraft launches in about a minute and is over the scene in about three, personnel requirement on a given beat falls by roughly half, and in fire, unrest or other hazardous conditions the aircraft goes in place of a human. A loudspeaker-and-spotlight payload turns the same airframe into a dispersal, warning and area-lighting asset — 150 m lighting throw and 300 m broadcast range on a quick-release mount.

Application — key site and perimeter security. For border zones, strategic institutions, oil and gas facilities, airports, government precincts and major venues, we combine tilt-rotor and multirotor aircraft, nests, counter-UAS equipment and the command system into one detect–identify–counter loop. Nest-based aircraft launch, land and recharge unattended for 24/7 perimeter coverage, closing the blind spots that long boundaries and high-rise overwatch leave open. The counter-UAS layer addresses hostile drones over sensitive sites — including swarms and multiple simultaneous operators, which single-point defences fail against — and shifts interdiction from a manual reaction to a precise, system-directed one. Data-theft risk from unauthorised aircraft and personnel is handled as part of the same picture, with encrypted media and logs throughout.

Application — waterway, coastal and anti-smuggling patrol. Nigeria's creeks, littoral waters and the Lagos and Niger Delta approaches are exactly the environment traditional monitoring loses: long, broken shorelines, remote water, targets that vanish between patrol passes, high boat-hour cost and real danger to officers on rough water or against armed groups. A tilt-rotor nest on the shoreline flies scheduled long-endurance patrols, staged repeaters keep the link alive far offshore, and the command system applies AI vessel and person recognition with live alerting — so detection, tracking and evidence capture happen covertly, before the target knows it has been seen, and interdiction is directed onto a plotted position.

Application — rogue-drone and pilot positioning. Unauthorised aircraft over airports, stadiums, refineries and government precincts are increasingly a live threat, and the operators evade detection deliberately: signal hopping, GNSS disabled, no Remote ID broadcast, and after a crash the airframe alone proves nothing. We field an aircraft-mounted high-precision radio direction-finding payload that triangulates the controller's signal horizontally and vertically in flight, plots the probable operator area on the map, then closes in for visual search with AI recognition to identify the person on the ground. The same payload locates concealed ground-based jammers inside UAV frequency ranges, and the host airframe holds anti-interference navigation without GNSS so it keeps flying in a contested radio environment. Detection range is about 3 km with up to six simultaneous target sources.

Where a client operates its own fleet, ICDATT NG supplies, commissions and sustains the systems and trains the crews to NCAA requirements. Where a client would rather buy the output, we fly the corridor as a contracted inspection service and deliver the report. Both models issue findings through the ICDATT client portal, not by open email.

Deployment in Nigeria is conditional on the operator's NCAA Remotely Piloted Aircraft System permissions, security clearance for the area of operation, and the asset owner's written authority over the right-of-way. Specifications above reflect published manufacturer figures; model selection, payload configuration and pricing are issued to the requesting buyer through the client portal.

Capability

  • 01Enterprise UAS supply for public safety, emergency response and tactical operations
  • 02Scheduled autonomous patrol of trunk, product and gas pipeline corridors
  • 03Close inspection of valve stations, manifolds, flow stations, tank farms and jetties
  • 04Right-of-way encroachment, illegal tapping and third-party construction detection
  • 05Thermal survey for spill signature, hot spots and leak indication
  • 06Integrated wide, zoom and thermal imaging with laser rangefinder (EVO Max 4T-XE)
  • 07Dual-gimbal thermal (640×512) and 48 MP visible-light payloads (EVO Lite Enterprise)
  • 08Forward-based docking nests for unmanned launch, recovery and recharge
  • 09Mesh networking and operation in GPS-denied environments
  • 10AI target recognition and positioning: people, vehicles, boats
  • 113D map planning, split-screen visible/thermal/map operation, offline maps
  • 12RTMP live streaming to a command or control point
  • 13Findings referenced to pipeline chainage with encrypted imagery and flight logs
  • 14Emergency response tasking: spill, fire, breach and post-incident assessment
  • 15Aerial patrol of urban beats, campuses, markets, event grounds and key road sections
  • 16Perimeter and key-site overwatch for border zones, facilities and government precincts
  • 17Counter-UAS detection, identification and directed interdiction at sensitive sites
  • 18Rogue-pilot and jammer positioning by airborne radio direction finding
  • 19Coastal, creek and littoral patrol with anti-smuggling detection and evidence capture
  • 20Airborne loudspeaker broadcast and spotlight illumination for dispersal and search
  • 21Pilot and operator training, NCAA permissions support, sustainment and spares
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Operating problem

What this service line exists to solve

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Corridor length outruns patrol capacity

Thousands of kilometres of right-of-way cannot be walked or driven at the frequency the threat requires, so detection lags the incident by days.

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Terrain that defeats ground access

Creek, swamp, flooded farmland and rainy-season washouts make long stretches physically unreachable, and put patrol teams at risk where they are reachable.

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Slow, blind emergency response

Spills, fires and breaches occur at scattered points far from any manned facility. Without an aerial picture, responders commit resources before they know what they are facing.

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Findings that do not stand up as evidence

Verbal and photographic reports without position, time and chain of custody are hard to act on commercially, with regulators or in court.

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Blind spots fixed cameras and foot patrols cannot close

Open ground, dense high-rise frontage, market and event crowds and broken shoreline sit outside the reach of fixed monitoring, leaving security dead zones exactly where incidents start.

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Manpower stretched past coverage

Schools, major events, long perimeters and littoral approaches all demand routine presence at once, and conventional patrol strength cannot be in all of them at the frequency the risk demands.

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Hostile drones and evasive operators

Unauthorised aircraft over sensitive sites arrive in numbers, with GNSS disabled and no Remote ID, while single-point defences and manual counter-UAS equipment react too late and too imprecisely.

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Ground response arrives late and uninformed

By the time a team reaches a scene by road or boat the situation has moved, and command is committing people without a current picture of what they are walking into.

Delivered outcome

What the client gets back

Higher inspection efficiency

Tilt-rotor route patrol paired with multirotor close inspection cuts inspection cost by around 50% against manned patrol, at a far higher inspection frequency across the same corridor.

Faster emergency response

End and edge processing makes response proactive rather than reactive: automated tasking from the nest and the command system raise incident-handling efficiency by around 30%, putting eyes over a spill, fire or breach before ground teams commit.

Personnel out of harm's way

Crews inspect creek, swamp and hostile-terrain segments from a safe launch point instead of entering them on foot or by boat.

An auditable inspection record

Every sortie produces referenced, encrypted imagery and logs tied to chainage — usable for regulatory reporting, insurance and enforcement.

Greater patrol efficiency

One aircraft covers more ground, and from angles no fixed camera holds. On a covered beat the personnel requirement falls by roughly half, cutting the standing cost of routine patrol.

Minutes, not hours, to first picture

Nest-based launch in about a minute and arrival over scene in about three gives command live video before ground units commit — decisions are made on what is happening, not on what was reported.

Coordinated air-ground defence of key sites

Unattended nest patrols plus counter-UAS equipment turn single-point protection into area protection, running a continuous detect–identify–counter loop with centimetre-level targeting accuracy.

Covert detection over water

Aerial patrol tracks and records smuggling and illegal-crossing activity without announcing a presence, so evidence is captured and interdiction is directed before the target reacts.

Platforms

Fielded equipment

Tactical / close-inspection tier

Autel EVO Max 4T-XE

Four-sensor integrated payload — wide, zoom and thermal cameras plus a laser rangefinder — on an autonomous airframe built for degraded environments, with mesh networking and navigation without GNSS.

Payload
Wide + zoom + thermal + laser rangefinder
Max flight time
42 minutes
Transmission
Autel SkyLink 3.0 — 20 km / 12.4 miles
Obstacle avoidance
720° omnidirectional
Networking
A-Mesh 1.0 mesh networking
Autonomy
Navigation in GPS-denied environments
Mission planning
3D map planning, multiple mission types
Environmental
IP43, −19 °C to 50 °C operation

Manufacturer-published figures. Configuration, spares tier and pricing are issued to the requesting buyer through the client portal.

Autel EVO Max 4T-XE front view showing the integrated four-sensor gimbalAutel EVO Max 4T-XE folded for transportAutel EVO Max 4T-XE case, controller, batteries, propellers and accessories

Compact / single-operator tier

Autel EVO Lite 6K Enterprise

A backpack-portable industrial airframe for single-person deployment, carrying a 1-inch 20 MP RGGB sensor with 6K stills and 4K/30 fps video, AI target recognition and three-way binocular vision.

Payload
1-inch CMOS 20 MP RGGB, 6K stills / 4K 30 fps
Max flight time
40 minutes
Transmission
12 km / 7.4 miles
Obstacle avoidance
Three-way binocular vision
Recognition
AI target identification and mapping
Deployment
Single-operator, carried and launched from a pack
Use cases
Public safety, emergency rescue, site survey
Variants
6K daylight and 640T dual thermal gimbal

Manufacturer-published figures. Bundle level, gimbal variant and pricing are issued to the requesting buyer through the client portal.

Autel EVO Lite 6K Enterprise airframe front viewAutel EVO Lite 6K Enterprise gimbal and camera detailAutel EVO Lite 6K Enterprise combo with controller, batteries and accessories

Corridor patrol tier

Long-endurance tilt-rotor VTOL

Fixed-wing endurance with vertical take-off, so a full pipeline corridor segment is flown in one sortie from an unprepared launch point — no runway, no catapult, no recovery net.

Endurance
Up to 106 minutes per sortie
Deployment
5-minute set-up, vertical launch and recovery
Max speed
108 km/h
Transmission
Up to 45 km, extendable by repeater
Payload
Interchangeable visible, zoom and thermal sensors
Role
Ultra-long corridor patrol and change detection

Manufacturer-published figures for the tilt-rotor class ICDATT NG fields. Airframe selection, payload fit and pricing are issued to the requesting buyer through the client portal.

Long-endurance tilt-rotor VTOL aircraft used for pipeline corridor patrol

Unmanned basing tier

Forward docking nest

A weatherproof roadside or facility-mounted hangar that launches, recovers and recharges the aircraft on schedule, so corridor segments are inspected without a crew travelling to site.

Operation
Automatic flight, recovery and recharging
Coverage
Up to 7 km operating radius per nest
Turnaround
25-minute fast charge between sorties
Ingress protection
IP55
Management
Cloud tasking and fleet monitoring
Data
AES-256 encrypted media and logs
Tilt-rotor VTOL docking nest for automatic launch, recovery and rechargingMultirotor docking nest with fast-charging bay and weatherproof enclosure

Link-extension tier

Corridor relay repeater

A staged relay that carries the control and video link past terrain masking, so the aircraft stays commanded and streaming across creek, forest and hill segments where a direct link would drop.

Function
Extends command and video range along the corridor
Siting
Vehicle, mast or facility mounted, rapidly relocated
Monitoring
Remote 4G health and status monitoring
Sustainment
Low-maintenance, unattended operation
Corridor relay repeater unit used to extend the command and video link

Rogue-drone detection tier

Counter-UAS tracer airframe

A high-sensor airframe configured for airspace security over key sites: wide-area drone detection, operator positioning and target recognition, flying with anti-interference navigation where the radio environment is contested.

Imaging
48 MP, 160× hybrid zoom, no blind spots
Detection
Rogue-UAV detection and pilot positioning
Detection range
Approximately 3 km
Navigation
High-precision visual navigation, GNSS-denied capable
Transmission
Up to 15 km
Role
Airspace security over facilities, venues and precincts

Manufacturer-published figures. Counter-UAS supply and operation in Nigeria is conditional on written authority from the responsible security agency and NCAA permissions.

Counter-UAS tracer airframe configured for rogue-drone detection and pilot positioningHeavy-lift security airframe carrying the radio detection payload

Pilot and jammer positioning tier

Airborne radio detection payload

A high-precision direction-finding payload that triangulates a drone controller's signal from the air, plots the probable operator area on the map, and locates concealed ground jammers inside UAV frequency bands.

Function
Pilot positioning and interference-source positioning
Detection range
Approximately 3 km
Simultaneous targets
Up to 6 signal sources
Method
Horizontal and vertical airborne triangulation
Coverage
Detects aircraft from major global manufacturers
Output
Probable operator area plotted for visual search
Airborne radio detection device used to triangulate drone controller signalsMulti-sensor gimbal payload with thermal imager and laser rangefinder

Intervention and search tier

Loudspeaker and spotlight payload

A quick-release combination payload that turns a patrol aircraft into a warning, dispersal and area-lighting asset for crowd management, cordons and night search.

Mount
Quick-release, fitted in the field
Lighting
150 m illumination distance
Broadcast
300 m voice broadcast distance
Use
Dispersal, warning, cordon control, night search
Combined drone loudspeaker and spotlight payload on a quick-release mount

Command and reporting tier

ICDATT integrated command system

The control-room layer: live aircraft video and position on one map, AI target recognition, tasking and dispatch, and the referenced evidential record delivered to the client portal.

Situational awareness
Real-time multi-aircraft video and position
Detection
AI recognition of people, vehicles and boats
Streaming
RTMP live feed to a client or joint control room
Reporting
Findings referenced to pipeline chainage
Data security
Encrypted storage, consent-gated log upload
Delivery
Issued through the ICDATT client portal
Integrated command system console showing live aircraft video, map position and AI target recognition