The watch never breaks.
Drones take turns to charge, so there are always eyes on the zone.
Turn a fleet of drones into one coordinated workforce.
Today, every drone adds a person. ORCA lets the fleet coordinate itself. Set the job, such as search this valley, watch this island or check every site on the list, and the drones split the work between them, cover for each other and keep going when the link drops. Every hectare goes on the record.
More ground covered. Without more pilots.
- Works with off-the-shelf drones
- Keeps going without signal
- People make every call
Today, every drone in the air needs its own pilot.
So the ground a programme can cover is set by headcount, not by the size of the job. Sites get checked once a season. A watch breaks every time a battery runs down. A search grows faster than a team can fly it. And whatever gets missed costs far more to fix later.
30%
more to clear wilding pines for every year control is delayed.
Source: Biosecurity New Zealand, February 2020$483k
and eight months to catch one stoat that reached a predator-free island.
Source: Otago Daily TimesToday
One pilot per drone
With ORCA
One operator, the whole fleet
Tell ORCA what needs doing, not how to fly.
Set an objective. The fleet plans the work, shares it out and re-plans as things change. Your team makes the decisions that matter, and everything goes on the record.
What you set
The objective- An area or a site listDraw it, or import it from your GIS.
- What to look forUsing the sensors and detection you trust.
- When it’s neededA deadline, a window, or around the clock.
- The limitsBoundaries, heights, hours and no-fly areas.
ORCA
Coordination- Shares out the workBy distance, battery and sensor.
- Re-plans as things changeCharging, drop-outs, new finds.
- Keeps going without a linkThe drones carry the plan between them.
Your teamConfirms every find, and can stop the fleet at any time.
What comes back
Answers, not footage- Likely finds for your callImage, location and the reason.
- Coverage, gaps explainedWhat was seen, what wasn’t, and why.
- Map layers and reportsStraight into ArcGIS and your reporting.
- A full command logEvery instruction, replayable.
Built around the moves one drone can’t make.
A single drone, however capable, has to land to charge, can’t search and watch at once, and needs a link home. A coordinated fleet doesn’t.
A find becomes a job.
When one drone spots something, another takes over watching it, and the search carries on.
One picture, one moment.
The whole block flown at once, so animals aren’t missed or counted twice as they move.
The work carries on when the link drops.
Under canopy, in the gully, beyond range. The drones share the plan between them and finish the job.
For the work that’s too big for the team.
The software is the same everywhere. What changes is the ground, the fleet and what the drones are looking for.
Biosecurity
Find it while it can still be stopped.
- Incursion response01
- Pest-plant programmes02
- Proof of absence03
Conservation
Hold the ground you’ve already won back.
- Island watch01
- Last-animal search02
- Pre-dawn counts03
Emergency management
A live picture in the first hours.
- Impact assessment01
- Land search02
- Fire-risk watch03
Infrastructure
Check the whole network, not a sample of it.
- Corridor vegetation01
- Storm patrol02
- Flood-scheme checks03
Every hectare accounted for.
The record is what you report against, not a folder of photos. What was covered and when, every find and who confirmed it, every gap and why.
Absence report · Block 7
Three passes to standard. No confirmed detections.
| Item | Result |
|---|---|
| Passes flown | 3 of 3 |
| Cells logged | 52 of 54 |
| Flags raised and dismissed, with images | 1 |
| Gaps: canopy, dog team booked | 2 cells |
ArcGIS layerGeoJSONPDF reportFlight log
Your people are always in charge.
Autonomy in public work only holds if people stay in charge and every action can be accounted for.
A person confirms every find
Nothing happens to a find until someone on your team confirms it.
Drones can’t leave the area you set
A hard boundary sits above every task, checked separately from the planning.
Every drone keeps its own failsafes
Each aircraft can land or return home without ORCA.
Command logSighting 2611
- 07:12:04OfficerSet objective: search 1.5 km around sighting 2611
- 07:12:09ORCAArea split into 6 sectors. Checked against boundary and height limits.
- 07:31:40ORCAD-02 battery low. Sector 2 handed to D-07.
- 07:33:15OfficerConfirmed flag 1: likely velvetleaf. Added to response map.
- 07:46:52OfficerDismissed flag 2: not a match. Reason logged.
Use cases
Some of the jobs ORCA is built for. Each has its own page, with a working demo of how the fleet runs it.
Biosecurity
- 01Incursion responseSearch the ground around a sighting, nearest first, with every part accounted for.
- 02Pest-plant programmesEvery site on the programme list checked each round, and likely finds ranked for your officer.
- 03Proof of absenceRepeat passes to an agreed standard, every cell logged, so you can show an area is clear.
Conservation
- 04Island watchDrones take turns on the coastline so the watch never breaks, and an incursion is seen the night it lands.
- 05Last-animal searchSearch whole blocks for the last few animals, and keep eyes on a find until the ranger arrives.
- 06Pre-dawn countsThe whole block flown in one cold morning, so the count is taken at one moment.
Emergency management
- 07Impact assessmentAssess a whole valley in the first hours: cut roads, bridges out, and people who need help.
- 08Land searchSearch the most likely areas first, through the night, and keep a drone over the person until the team arrives.
- 09Fire-risk watchHold lookouts over the ranges on extreme days, and report smoke with a location and images.
Infrastructure
- 10Corridor vegetationEvery span on the network checked for vegetation inside clearance, and ranked for the crew.
- 11Storm patrolAfter a storm, patrol every tripped feeder at once and send crews to the faults first.
- 12Flood-scheme checksRoutine stopbank checks, and the whole scheme swept when the river rises.
Built for forests, farms, rivers and coastlines.
Steep country, thick canopy and long coastlines, where the signal drops and the weather turns. ORCA is built for the ground that’s hardest to cover.
See ORCA on work like yours.
Tell us about the ground you look after and where it’s hardest to cover. We’ll walk you through how a fleet would run it, and what a first trial could look like.