Product Overview

The SIG-X1M is a multi-band drone detector built to travel. It listens for the control and video links that drones use, then reports each contact's type, bearing and distance, so an operator knows what is up there and roughly where it is. Detection reaches across long distances and across the bands that most consumer and professional platforms use, which suits patrol routes, temporary events and any site where the coverage has to move with the team. Patrol units, event security crews and site response teams use it to build the air picture before anyone is committed to a response.

Recognised Drone Types

• DJI and other mainstream platforms: DJI Mavic, Air, Mini, FPV and Avata models can be identified and located as individual contacts, and the same library covers AUTEL, Dahua, Haoxiang, Xiaomi, Yuneec, Hubsan, Powervision and Tello aircraft.
• FPV and custom builds: the covered bands take in the control and video links used by FPV platforms, so racing-style machines and self-built airframes appear as contacts even when the model itself is unknown.
• Wi-Fi controlled drones: toy and short-range Wi-Fi aircraft are picked up alongside the professional platforms.
• Separation, not just an alarm: because each contact is identified by type and, where supported, by model, an operator can tell a passing toy from a serious platform before deciding what to do.
• Tell us what you fly against: if one specific model is your main worry, send it to us and we will confirm how it is handled.

Deployment Modes

Deployment separates this system from a fixed installation. On a vehicle it moves with the patrol, so a route, a perimeter road or a stretch of coastline can be checked as the team goes. Off the vehicle, the same detector stands on a tripod for a temporary post at a checkpoint, a site entrance or a VIP location, where it needs no civil works and packs away when the operation ends. The structural design also supports long-term outdoor siting, for sites that want a position they can still relocate as the threat picture changes. For many buyers this is the mobile half of an anti drone solution: quick to position, easy to move on, and equally at home on a vehicle, a tripod or a fixed outdoor point.

Multi-Target Tracking

• Five or more aircraft at once: the system holds at least five simultaneous targets, so a group of drones is shown as a group rather than a single alarm.
• Multiple flight paths: at least five trajectories can be displayed together, letting the operator see where each contact entered and which way it is heading.
• Identification per track: every contact carries the aircraft type and, for supported models, the model name, so a professional platform can be told apart from a passing toy.
• Response decisions in a busy counter uas picture: with several contacts live, the team can decide where to point a camera, which part of the site to close and who needs to be told.
• Handover between operators: the track list can be shared or read out, so the response does not depend on one person watching the screen through a shift.

Passive Detection

The unit only listens. It transmits nothing while it is working, so it adds no electromagnetic noise to the site and cannot disturb the radio traffic you already depend on - a real consideration at airports, ports and industrial sites where the spectrum is crowded. That passive approach lets the detector stay on watch continuously, day and night, in weather that would stop a camera or an observer on foot, and it covers the full 360° around its position instead of one approach lane. Where a site already runs radar, RF sensors or countermeasure equipment, this unit adds an independent set of ears to the anti drone system and keeps reporting when the rest is saturated.

Typical Sites

• Airport and airfield perimeters: a patrol vehicle works the fence line and the approach paths, and the responding team gets a bearing on the contact before anyone drives onto the movement area.
• Prisons and correctional facilities: drone deliveries tend to arrive over a wall or a yard at night, so a unit left in position or set on a tripod gives the night shift a mobile layer on top of the fixed sensors.
• Border, coastal and long perimeter routes: one vehicle with a detector covers ground that would otherwise need a string of fixed installations.
• Stadiums, festivals and large public events: the system arrives with the security team, stays for the duration and leaves with them, which suits a counter uas plan that has to be built and taken down around a date.
• Critical infrastructure: substations, refineries and water plants add one mobile unit to watch approaches a control room cannot see, and security integrators and anti drone companies use it as the mobile piece in a client's detection layout.

Technical Support & Model Matching

Choosing between a handheld detector, a vehicle-mounted or tripod-deployed system, a fixed passive detection installation, and a GaN suppression module comes down to your site, your threats and your existing equipment. Our team works with integrators and security buyers from your first enquiry: we help match the right detection range, band coverage and output level to the job, support customisation of module parameters, and stay available through installation, commissioning and troubleshooting. Send us your deployment scenario and we will recommend a configuration.

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