Southern States LLC and SkySafe have formed a strategic partnership to deliver real-time drone detection and airspace intelligence purpose-built for energy infrastructure. The collaboration integrates SkySafe’s drone detection platform into Southern States existing airspace awareness product line, providing utilities with airspace visibility into drone activity over substations, generations sites and transmission corridors.
The announcement comes as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) highlighted the drone threat to critical infrastructure in a new report.
SkySafe will provide real-time drone identification, flight path history and operator location awareness. Utilities are able to distinguish authorised drones from unknown aircraft, document incidents with audit-ready logs and respond to emerging threats.
Patrick James, Director of Grid Security Solutions at Southern States, said that drone activity and terrorist threats around critical infrastructure are no longer merely hypothetical.
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