Kingfisher Network: Units That Work Together
One Kingfisher unit gives you local awareness. Several units, communicating with each other, extend coverage across the area you protect and help locate where a suspicious signal is coming from.
A Kingfisher network is not a separate product. It is Kingfisher units working together, reporting to Kingfisher Watch.
Kingfisher detects. Kingfisher Watch shows.
Units That Talk to Each Other
Kingfisher units communicate with each other. Each unit shares what it sees with neighboring Kingfisher units and sends its findings to Kingfisher Watch.
The result is one live view of the whole area in Kingfisher Watch, built from every unit you deploy, instead of a separate reading from each unit.
Coverage With Multiple Units
Each Kingfisher unit provides 6–8 km (about 4–5 miles) of range under appropriate operating conditions.
Several units working together cover more ground than a single unit and help locate suspicious signals across the protected area. Kingfisher Watch brings the findings from every unit into one live view, and the live map shows where activity is occurring, together with the Kingfisher units watching it.
Built Around Your Area
A Kingfisher unit can be deployed on its own or as part of a multi-unit network. The requirement can be fixed, mobile or distributed, and Kingfisher units go where your team goes.
How many units you need, and where they go, depends on your geography and your mission. An evaluation shows how Kingfisher units, coverage and Kingfisher Watch would fit your mission, your geography and the security operation you already run.
Detection and Localization Are Different Problems
Detection asks:
Is suspicious infrastructure present?
Localization asks:
Where is it?
Once suspicious infrastructure turns up, the next question is physical: where is it, and what is it doing?
A single Kingfisher unit gives you local awareness. Multiple communicating units can extend coverage and help locate the source across a larger area. Whether a signal is truly out of place is a separate question, covered on Profiling and Validation.
Why Timing Matters
Portable rogue cellular systems create a timing problem. The transmitter may run for minutes or hours, and the operator may be on the move. Traditional investigation often starts after the source is gone.
Seeing where the activity is while it is still on the air gives your team a chance to act. Kingfisher Watch shows it on the live map, and dispatch is part of the same platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Kingfisher units communicate with each other. Each unit shares what it sees with neighboring Kingfisher units and sends its findings to Kingfisher Watch.
Yes. A Kingfisher unit can be deployed on its own or as part of a multi-unit network. A single unit gives you local awareness. Multiple communicating units extend coverage and help locate the source across a larger area.
That depends on the area you need to cover and the mission. An evaluation shows how Kingfisher units, coverage and Kingfisher Watch would fit your geography and the security operation you already run.
Multiple communicating Kingfisher units can extend coverage and help locate the source across a larger area. Kingfisher Watch shows where activity is occurring on the live map.
Detection asks whether suspicious infrastructure is present. Localization asks where it is. Kingfisher treats them as separate problems.
Yes. Kingfisher is portable. The requirement can be fixed, mobile or distributed, and Kingfisher units go where your team goes.
To Kingfisher Watch, which brings the findings from every unit into one live view on your own systems.
Plan Coverage for the Area You Protect
Tell us the ground you need to cover. We'll shape the evaluation around it.