Sentrycs to protect ports from drug smuggling drones

Sentrycs has been selected by a maritime logistics and shipping company to protect ports in Latin America from drug cartels smuggling narcotics into shipping containers.  

Exploiting the port facility’s previous focus on traditional perimeter security, criminals were using small drones with and without GPS to perform surveillance flights and monitor the presence of security guards. In the absence of guards, they breached the fences, opened containers, and stashed contraband.   

Sentrycs’ adaptive protocol analytics-based counter-drone system was preferred over jamming-based systems because the logistics company uses its own drones for monitoring purposes, and Sentrycs’ system allows differentiation even between identical drones, mitigating only unauthorised ones. Sentrycs can also enable uninterrupted operations in the semi-urban port environment, where internal communication systems rely on WiFi.

During Sentrycs’ initial site inspection, the system detected 127 unique unauthorised drones in five days, and was able to locate the operators’ last known locations.