AI-powered Maritime Situational Awareness
PORTSIGHT fuses cameras, radar, RF direction finding, vessel and air traffic data, assesses them and gets the result into the reporting chain. The operator detects and reports, countermeasures currently lie with the police.
The exercise shows Bremerhaven, with vessel and air traffic from recordings. Drone, boat, underwater contact and all sensor readings are simulated and labelled as such. The exercise interface is in German.
Since the explosive drone at Leipzig/Halle airport in August 2026, the task of port operators is clearly defined. They detect, document and report, countermeasures currently lie with the police.
In the exercise, PORTSIGHT turns the first radio signal into a picture within 15 seconds, and the control room, the security officer and the police see it at the same time, each in their own view.
One picture instead of three phone calls.
Radar, RF direction finding and cameras merge into one track. Altitude and heading are added, and the path is projected ahead.
A boat stands out when it moves unannounced where traffic reports in, or behaves unlike everyone else. Same track, same report.
Diver sonars report contacts in the basin. PORTSIGHT says honestly what it does not know yet and commits once the data is sufficient.
Existing sensors are connected, not replaced.
Cameras, radar, RF sensors, sonar, vessel data, aviation, flight approvals, access, cargo, weather.
All signals flow into one data stream and are fused continuously.
Detect, identify, track, project, assess, alert, record. The assessment answers five questions. What is it, what is it doing, what is it carrying, what works against it, where is it least dangerous.
Control room, security officer, police, water police and federal police see the same picture, each in their own view, and acknowledge in the chain.
Every detected drone gets a case file. Measurements, image crops and events are chained so that any later change shows. Every step is time-stamped.
PORTSIGHT is not rebuilt for each port. Its AI is tuned to the port instead, to its traffic, its equipment and its organisation.
During setup, calibration flights over the site are used to tune sensors and agents to the port's sight lines, cranes and radio environment.
PORTSIGHT works within the roles, reporting lines and equipment the port already has. New sensors feed the same picture instead of another system.
When a sensor, a terminal or a procedure is added, the agents are adjusted to it.
PORTSIGHT raises the alarm in the port's own alerting chain and hands the situation package to the police before they arrive.
Counter-drone systems can connect as receivers and report their action and their sensor data back into the picture. The whole incident then sits on one chain of evidence.
Exercise mode runs the same chain with simulated objects, without a real drone. Every detection, assessment and approval is on record.
Every port is different. I'd love to hear where yours stands and what matters most to you.
Tobias Nentwig, Co-Founder