
Case Study - CRITICAL ASSETS
Port of Ashdod
Ashdod, Israel
- <4 min
- response to perimeter breach
- 3.8km
- autonomous cargo delivery
- 10+ min
- autonomous AI tracking
Challenge
One of Israel's most strategically significant maritime facilities, classified as critical national infrastructure requiring continuous readiness against a wide range of threat scenarios. The port needed to prove the operational readiness and integration potential of drone-based capabilities before committing to full deployment.
Solution
OVERWATCH led a multi-scenario proof of concept with partners FlightOps, Propeller Drones, Sentrycs and Dynamic Infrastructure - demonstrating automated breach response, continuous AI tracking of suspicious ground activities, simulated cargo delivery, AI-based structural inspection, and integrated friendly/hostile drone identification with simulated safe takeover.
Results
- Drone airborne within seconds of alert, full situational imagery delivered shortly after
- Sub-4-minute end-to-end response to a perimeter breach alert
- 10+ minutes continuous fully autonomous AI tracking of suspicious ground activities - no manual piloting
- Successful 3.8 km cargo delivery to a vessel outside the port
- Full technical integration proven across detection, identification and mitigation systems
- All operational success metrics defined by port security fully achieved