Public safety and security agencies across Europe and the Middle East are moving from ad hoc, reactive drone deployments to structured programmes with shared situational awareness, automated compliance tracking and secure feeds to command centres. The pattern is consistent: the hardware comes first, the operational infrastructure follows.
The hardware is ready. The question is whether your operations platform can keep up.
AirHub helps public safety, critical infrastructure and security organisations take full operational control of their drone programmes, securely, compliantly and at scale.
The UK’s Transport Police have become the first force in the UK to operate BVLOS drones routinely from a central operations room. Drones deployed across the rail network respond to trespass and disruption incidents without a pilot on site, controlled entirely from London HQ. Read the full story →
The Belgian Police, Dubai Police and Bombeiros Portugal all started with a small pilot team and scaled to national operations. The platform needs to grow with them, without compromising on security or data sovereignty.
Why this matters: Remote and automated deployments create a new set of operational demands: real-time situational awareness, secure data pipelines and centralised pilot compliance tracking. As forces like BTP scale BVLOS operations, the platform layer becomes just as critical as the hardware.
The shift from field pilots to centralised command is accelerating across Europe and the Gulf
Real deployments, real results
| Dubai Police 🇦🇪 — 1 minute 25 seconds to eyes on scene
Dubai Police set a target of sub-90 second response times across a city-wide DFR network. With AirHub as the central operations platform, automated drone launches from DJI Docks now deliver live aerial intelligence to command in as little as 1 minute and 25 seconds. |
| Bombeiros Portugal 🇵🇹 — 700+ pilots, one platform
National wildfire response and coastal SAR coordinated through a single drone operations centre, with live thermal feeds reaching command in real time. |
| Belgian Police 🇧🇪 — real-time situational awareness
Drone operations integrated with command and dispatch, with full pilot compliance tracking and data sovereignty across the national force.
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Why AirHub?
- EU cloud – Full data sovereignty Hosted entirely within the EU. ISO 27001 certified. Built for organisations where data security is non-negotiable.
- Live ops – Centralised command visibility Real-time streaming, telemetry and situational awareness across all active missions from one operations view.
- Unified fleet management Manage every drone, payload and maintenance record in one place. One workflow, across every team and location.
- Compliant – Pilot compliance at scale Centralised qualification tracking keeps every pilot certified and ready to fly, across every team and location.
From EU-based cloud to on-premise deployment, AirHub is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant by design.
“ With AirHub, we have a single, secure platform to coordinate hundreds of drone teams across different regions and agencies, whether it’s wildfires inland or maritime rescues along the coast.”
Pedro Tavares · Head of Drone Trainings & Operations, Escola Nacional de Bombeiros
Public safety Critical Infrastructure Security