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FOTOKITE SIGMA | ACTIVELY TETHERED UAS BUILT FOR FIRST RESPONDERS
Fotokite Sigma provides public safety teams with mission-critical situational awareness from elevated perspectives. Fotokite’s actively tethered drones conserve personnel by launching, flying, and landing with the single push of a button; no piloting required.
Fotokite Sigma is authorized and recognized by aviation authorities as a safer alternative to non-actively tethered drones and free-flying public safety drone systems.
Situational Awareness at the Tap of a Button
Fotokite Live is the native operating software for the Fotokite Sigma. Mission-critical situational awareness is continuously available on a rugged tablet, allowing responders to make increasingly information-driven decisions through a simple, straightforward interface. View with color or thermal camera.
How does the Fotokite Sigma work?
Deployment
The Fotokite Sigma is ready to deploy the instant you arrive on scene. A hands-free, automatic launch sequence is available at the push of a button.
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Your Fotokite rugged tablet automatically connects and begins displaying aerial intelligence in real-time. Orient your camera view or deployment height with simple swiping gestures.
Elevated situational awareness
The intelligence provided from simple and persistent aerial overviews will help you with the information you need when you need it the most.
Configurations
Fotokite Sigma situational awareness system is available in 2 different configurations.
Rooftop Box
Built directly into the roof rack of light or heavy Public Safety vehicles
The Rooftop Box configuration is Fotokite’s flagship configuration that provides immediate and completely hands-free increased situational awareness. Designed for integration into SUVs and heavy apparatus vehicle classes, the Rooftop configuration deploys with the push of a button.
Transport Case
Packaged in a rugged transport-ready case for use across various missions, teams, and vehicles.
The Transport Case configuration allows the use of the Fotokite Sigma to be interchangeable between vehicles and provides flexibility in deploying the system at the scene of an incident.
Safe and Simple Situational Awareness
Deployed with the single push of a button, Fotokite Sigma doesn't require any setup time, calibration, or piloting. Within seconds, you and your team will be able to access aerial overviews of your incident scene up to heights of 45m/150ft with the safety and reliability that public safety teams demand.
24h Intelligence, On-Site and Remotely
With 24 hour flight time and without any piloting needed, Fotokite allows for true, everyday autonomous flight. This gives teams actionable information throughout their missions and unlocks the ability to capture full incident response records without interruption. An integrated mobile data modem also optionally streams both camera streams remotely to user-specified IP addresses.
Redundancy, Safety, and Reliability
Safety comes standard. Fotokite provides an industrial-grade tool with propulsion, power, and autopilot redundancy built in. This provides public safety teams with the reliability and dependability they need in their everyday mission-critical tools.
Low Training Threshold
Launch, fly, and land the Fotokite Sigma with a single button push. Height is controlled with a scroll-bar on the included tablet, and camera angle and Fotokite heading is controlled with a simple double-tap gesture to snap and center to your objective.
GPS-Independent
Patented use of the tether enables GPS-independent flight and provides safe, reliable, autonomous operation throughout every mission. Further use of Fotokite's technology uniquely provides the capability to reliably launch and land from small vehicle-based enclosures day-in and day-out.
IP55 Rated
Designed for performance and reliability in any conditions. Fotokite Sigma is IP55 rated and ready to operate when you need it, including rainy, snowy and windy weather conditions.
45m /150 ft Max Height
Flying up to 45m / 150ft high, situational awareness is delivered down the tether to the ground team. The system includes automatic altitude reduction if the wind surpasses the threshold to operate safely.
Advanced Cameras
Dual infrared and low-light RGB video is securely delivered down the tether. Thermal video resolution is 320 x 240 / 27 fps. Radiometric feature can measure absolute temperature in range -40°C - 400°C, accuracy ± 5%. Low light RGB video resolution is 1920 x 1080 / 30 fps / 12 MP /16x Hybrid Zoom (0.5x widest - 16x most zoomed).
Robust Wind Performance & Intelligent Redundancy
Made for performance even in harsh conditions, the Fotokite Sigma has been operated in winds up to 25 mph (40 km/h). For safety and peace of mind, Fotokite Sigma is built with automatic detection of hazardous wind conditions and will automatically adjust height down to safe operating altitudes so station-keeping can be maintained without the need to monitor or pilot the system.
Lightweight and Built for Reliability
Fotokite Sigma's Kite is built with an ultra-light 1.2kg carbon fibre frame providing a robust, durable, and transport-ready solution.