Early-warning software for venue and infrastructure operators.
Before a drone reaches its target, it flies over places where people are — in the city, grilling in the garden, on a pilgrim path, around critical infrastructure. Anyone who sees it reports it with a single tap. From a few independent reports, Schwarmwachter forms one warning you can rely on in your control room — located, with direction of flight and confidence — while the drone is still far out.
The calm. A drone, still far out. Someone sees it — one tap. The early warning reaches the control room in time.
Schwarmwachter is early-warning software for venue and infrastructure operators. Schwarmwachter, the app, makes the people who are already there part of the protection — from trained staff to entire populations. Their sightings become a live drone warning in your control room: position, direction of flight, confidence level — and, where possible, drone type and threat level. No hardware to buy — it plugs into the systems you already run.
Fixed counter-UAS — radar, RF, cameras — guards the perimeter. But small drones launch kilometres away and travel the wide approach corridor that fixed sensors cover poorly and cannot afford to blanket. By the time the perimeter reacts, the response window can already be gone.
Where the corridor is truly empty — open sea, uninhabited desert — radar and RF stay in charge. Schwarmwachter is the layer over inhabited forefield: complementary, not a replacement.
Schwarmwachter is software, in two parts. An app for the people already there — stewards and staff at the venue, opt-in participants across the surrounding approach: one tap turns what they see into a time, a place and a direction. And a fusion engine for your operations room that weighs every report by how reliable its source has proven to be, filters out manipulation, and combines a few early sightings into one located warning with direction of flight and a stated confidence. It plugs into the control-room systems you already run — it feeds them, it doesn't replace them.
Setup plus a per-site or per-event subscription — typically starting with a pilot deployment.
Your stewards, staff and opt-in participants install the app on their own phones. Your operations room uses the Schwarmwachter live picture — or takes the feed straight into the systems it already runs, via standard interfaces (JSON/REST today; further integrations on request).
App distribution, a short site configuration, observer onboarding, control-room handoff. No construction, no site survey.
A single tap reports what someone sees. No identity check required — reliability is computed, not assumed.
Every report is weighted by how reliable its source has proven, designed against manipulation, and fused — many uncertain reports into one reliable picture.
One track — a moving, located position with direction — reaches your operations room with a confidence level, while there is still time. Citizens sense; operators act.
A structural lock, not just a policy: the citizen sensor layer has no tasking or effector path. Designed around human oversight — a small compliance surface.
App distribution is the rollout — on ordinary smartphones. No hardware, no site survey. Setup and operator onboarding take days, not the months a hardware install needs.
Event-based, purpose-bound and auditable — a trust layer, not a surveillance system. Architected for sovereign, in-jurisdiction hosting.
The moat is the network plus the trust logic, not a box — protected by four patent-pending constructs. The hard part isn't the app; it's participatory-network operations and trust calibration.
Human observation is passive and RF-independent. Against fibre-optic-guided and RF-silent drones — exactly where signal-based detection fails — people are one of the few remaining ways to see it at all.
Each report is a time, a place and a direction — captured at the moment of sighting. No continuous tracking, no movement profile of the reporter. Every warning keeps its provenance and can be replayed for audit. Designed to run in-country, operated with local partners.
We lead where the inhabited approach is densest: stadiums, festivals and mass gatherings — then critical infrastructure. From world tournaments and world expos to pilgrim routes and festival grounds. Peacetime training is crisis readiness — the same architecture scales from a match-day crowd to a nation.
Schwarmwachter detects and warns — no effector, no control. It is an early-warning system, not a weapon: humans decide.
For operators, security leads, integrators and partners — from stadiums and critical infrastructure to national programmes.
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