Product and company milestones, plus our take on the industry, as they happen.
September 2026
Most perimeter security and counter-UAS systems force operators into heavy, proprietary hardware suites — a full rip-and-replace of existing infrastructure just to get basic coverage. Herkeios takes a different approach: a lightweight, software-defined detection pipeline that runs on the camera feeds already in place, with real-time classification at the edge — no hardware overhaul required. The clip below shows a real detection from our C2 dashboard: a non-cooperative track flagged and classified as a camera-confirmed drone within seconds, at 77% confidence. The picture-in-picture camera feed is synced to the same moment as the dashboard alert, showing the actual drone in flight. Position and range weren't resolved on this pass — that refinement is still in progress, not a claim we're making here — but the detection and classification themselves are real, not staged or simulated. This is what real-world validation looks like: not a synthetic test scenario, but an actual detection, with the evidence to prove it. We're currently in conversation with critical infrastructure operators and security teams evaluating this kind of software-first approach for their own sites — if that's a conversation worth having for your organization, we'd like to hear from you.
August 2026
Herkeios has completed its first real-hardware field test of multi-camera triangulation, moving this capability from simulation-only testing to live validation. In a live flight test, the system correctly triangulated 26 real position fixes across a live drone flight and correctly flagged both perimeter breach events, with no false positives or false negatives recorded. This validates the core tracking and zone-detection logic against real sensor data for the first time, ahead of broader field testing across additional sites and conditions.
July 2026
Herkeios's camera integration is now connected via the industry-standard ONVIF/RTSP protocol — meaning most existing IP camera systems can be integrated without proprietary hardware. This is the technical foundation of our camera-first approach: if your site already has ONVIF-compatible cameras, you already have what's needed to get started.
July 2026
Herkeios's hardware-agnostic sensor layer is fully operational for RF and audio — both connect via USB and feed directly into our AI classification models for real-time drone detection. Camera remains the recommended starting point for most sites, with RF and audio available as an added-confidence layer.
Industry InsightAugust 2026
Ireland's undersea cables — carrying much of the transatlantic data traffic Europe depends on — have faced documented hybrid threats, including vessels operating drones observed loitering near sensitive cable routes in the Irish Sea. Most facilities in this position have no way to detect a drone until it's directly overhead, and without proof, authorized responders can't act. This is the gap Herkeios is built to help close: sensor-agnostic detection that works with infrastructure a site already has, producing the evidence that turns a sighting into something a responder can act on.
Industry InsightAugust 2026
In May 2026, a drone incursion in Vilnius forced Lithuanian authorities to suspend both flights and rail traffic, triggering NATO air policing measures. The disruption illustrates a pattern increasingly familiar to European airports: detection, not just response capability, is the real gap. Herkeios doesn't eliminate that risk alone — mitigation remains the job of authorized responders. But a site with sensor-agnostic detection already running on existing camera infrastructure gets earlier warning and the evidence a responder needs to act — often the difference between a contained response and a full operational shutdown.
