DAI-ATLAS SWARM · CIVIL & COMMERCIAL

Urban edge sensing for municipalities and operators

Mothership edge + modular nano nodes for ALPR, Amazonía thermal, disaster SAR, and LoRa mesh — JSON events only, fused in DAI-ATLAS with satellite and VTOL. No defense payloads on this channel.

Civil & commercial catalog

Atlas-S1 and S2 kits — smart city, parking, environmental monitoring, municipal SAR. Tactical ISR and designation programs are offered separately under B2G contract.

Defense & institutional ISR →

Didactic guide

Plain-language guide

Understand DAI-ATLAS SWARM without being a tech expert. Step by step.

Think of many smart doorbells across the city: they do not film private life all day; they ring when something you already authorized occurs, and your team decides what to do.

Messages only, not continuous video

It does

  • Alert: “plate ABC-123, 6:04 pm, street X”
  • Alert: “possible person, forest zone”
  • Record of why it is allowed (contract, decree)

It does not

  • All-day video of the entire street
  • Machine decides alone with no human review
  • Defense programs mixed into this catalog
  1. 1 · What is a drone?

    A small aircraft with no pilot inside. Someone on the ground flies it, or it follows an authorized route. Many municipalities already use them to inspect works, assess fire damage, or plan the city — not to watch everyone all day.

    Smart city sensing
    Drones in public services (Dublin City Council)
  2. 2 · What is a “swarm”?

    Instead of one large drone, several small helpers spread across the area. Each covers a piece. If one loses signal, another can relay the message — like neighbors passing a note to the same meeting point.

    • Nano = small, light, limited battery
    • Mothership = smart mailbox that collects alerts
    • Atlas = central map the operator sees
  3. 3 · The “mothership” that collects alerts

    Nano nodes cannot reach the internet all the time. A mothership solves that: a larger VTOL (CW-25E) or a fixed tower with an edge computer. It receives short messages and forwards them to the DAI-ATLAS map.

    VTOL mothership in operation
  4. 4 · Kit S1 · Urban (plates & patrol)

    For municipalities and parking operators. A camera sees the car, finds the plate, reads letters and numbers (like scanning a document), and sends: “plate X, time Y, place Z”. It does not stream the whole street all day.

    Traffic inspection
    Smart parking and license plate reading
  5. 5 · Kit S2 · Amazonía (heat & forest radio)

    Under the forest canopy, mobile signal is often weak. Nanos can land and act as LoRa radio relays (short messages, long range, low battery). Thermal cameras see heat: a human body (~37 °C) stands out from the background — useful with environmental permits or coordinated emergencies.

    Emergency identification
    How a thermal drone finds heat (search)
  6. 6 · Civil SAR (collapsed building, emergency agencies)

    Profile U3-C: the nano helps estimate where someone might be trapped after a disaster. It sends an alert to the map; an emergency responder decides next steps. Civil rescue, not military operations.

    Mountain rescue with thermal drone

Sense → Understand → Decide → Act

1

Nano nodes (Edge Packs)

ESP32-S3 + swappable cartridges — ALPR, thermal, civil SAR SLAM, LoRa relay. INT8 pipelines on GAP8 / Orin offload.

2

Mothership (CW-20E / CW-25E + Jetson Orin)

Mission thread router, sector mapping, LoRa gateway, 4G/5G/sat uplink to Atlas.

3

DAI-ATLAS Intelligence Mesh

Orchestrator + analyst fuse swarm tracks with Sentinel layers and field VTOL for civil operators.

4

Institutional dashboards

Municipal, environmental, and emergency dashboards — audit trail and legal basis on every event.

Civil deployment kits — S1 / S2

Civil / commercial

Atlas-S1 · Urban Edge

ALPR, illegal construction, perimeter patrol — JSON events only, no video uplink.

CW-20E + Jetson Orin Nano or fixed tower edge node

  • 12 nano · U1_transit, U3_mesh_relay
  • From $18,400 kit + Atlas SaaS

Municipalities · Parking operators · Smart city integrators

Civil / commercial

Atlas-S2 · Amazonía

Under-canopy thermal + LoRa mesh fused with satellite in DAI-ATLAS.

CW-25E VTOL mothership + LoRa gateway

  • 8 nano · U4_amazonia, U3_mesh_relay
  • From $14,200 kit + Atlas SaaS

Environmental agencies · Formal mining · Regional governments

Civil payload profiles (Plug & Play cartridges)

IDProfileEdge PackAtlas event
U1Transit & assetpack-alpr-int8vehicle.plate.match
U3-CDisaster SAR (civil)pack-indoor-slam-civil-int8sar.victim.likelihood
U4Amazonía thermalpack-thermal-human-int8thermal.human.detected
R3LoRa mesh relaypack-lora-relaynode.relay.parked

Tactical ISR, judicial correlation, and cooperative designation → /dai/defensa#swarm

Compliance & data minimization

  • Events only — no continuous video uplink from nano nodes
  • Legal basis field required (contract, municipal decree, environmental permit)
  • Operator acknowledgment in DAI-ATLAS for sensitive matches
  • Defense profiles (U2, U3 tactical, U5) blocked on public ingest API

Not autonomous weapons — civil sensing with human oversight

Small drone swarms in popular fiction show lethal autonomy without accountability. DAI-ATLAS SWARM civil programs are built differently: alerts and JSON events only, mandatory legal basis, and operator acknowledgment — never lethal autonomy on this channel.

Events, not video

Nano nodes run INT8 Edge Packs locally. Atlas receives structured alerts — plate match, thermal signature, SAR likelihood — not continuous video uplink.

Human in the loop

Sensitive matches require operator acknowledgment in DAI-ATLAS before escalation. No autonomous engagement from civil kits S1 or S2.

Legal basis on every event

Municipal contract, environmental permit, or emergency decree — stored with the event for audit and institutional review.

Defense is a separate channel

Tactical ISR, judicial correlation, and designation programs run under B2G contract at /dai/defensa#swarm — blocked on public ingest.

Institutional FAQ

Is Atlas-S1 or S2 a weapon?
No. Civil kits are sensing platforms — ALPR, environmental thermal, municipal SAR, and mesh relay. They emit alerts to dashboards, not kinetic effects.
Can it target people autonomously?
No lethal autonomy. Civil profiles cannot ingest on the public API. Every demo event includes legalBasis and is designed for institutional audit.
Who authorizes an alert?
Your organization under contract or decree. Atlas stores the legal basis and supports operator ack for sensitive matches before action.
What about hostile micro-drones?
Detection and defeat of malicious UAS is a defense problem. See Counter-UAS at /dai/defensa#escudo — separate from civil SWARM catalog.

Event contract · POST /api/dai/v1beta1/swarm/events

Firmware publishes this JSON. Atlas upserts a live track and stores the event for audit. Civil profiles only on public demo; authenticated org API for institutional programs.

{
  "nodeId": "nano-lim-014",
  "mothershipId": "moth-cw20e-01",
  "missionThreadId": "thread-miraflores-patrol-2026-05-31",
  "payloadProfile": "U1_transit",
  "eventType": "vehicle.plate.match",
  "confidence": 0.94,
  "geo": {
    "lat": -12.1194,
    "lng": -77.0342,
    "alt_m": 42,
    "accuracy_m": 3.2
  },
  "payload": {
    "plate": "ABC-123",
    "list_id": "municipal-alpr-q2",
    "edge_pack": "pack-alpr-int8"
  },
  "legalBasis": "Municipal contract MC-2026-014",
  "timestamp": "2026-05-31T18:00:00.000Z"
}

Live civil swarm event feed

Demo ingest — civil profiles only, fused as Atlas tracks (source: swarm).

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