Autonomous detection and response for critical infrastructure.

Product overview

We monitor large, remote sites that people alone cannot guard effectively. Autonomous sensor towers watch a site day and night. Software on each tower recognises what it sees, a person, a vehicle or an animal, and reports only what matters. An operator reviews each alert and decides how to respond.

Simulated scenario for illustration.

How it works

1. DetectCameras, thermal imaging and radar observe the site in daylight, at night and in poor visibility.
2. IdentifyEach tower classifies movement on board and filters out irrelevant activity.
3. AlertA genuine threat produces one alert, with its location and live imagery.
4. DecideThe operator reviews it and decides what happens next. Every decision is made by a person and recorded.
5. RespondTeams are dispatched to the exact location, and the incident is logged.

What we deploy

Platform

One operational view across every sensor and every site, from a single facility to a national network.

Autonomous sensor towers

Cameras, thermal imaging and radar on a solar-powered, wirelessly connected mast. They need no grid and no network on site.

Autonomous aerial systems

Drones that launch on an alert to see what a tower cannot.

Autonomous ground systems

Unmanned vehicles that patrol terrain beyond the reach of fixed towers.

Site coverage

What we protect

Mining and critical minerals, oil and gas, power generation and transmission, pipelines, ports and terminals, and borders.

The problem

Critical infrastructure in Africa is exposed.

Much of it is unmonitored, and it faces theft, sabotage and armed attack. In Nigeria, vandals destroyed 178 high-voltage transmission towers in the first half of 2025. At its peak, crude oil theft was estimated at around 200,000 barrels per day. In Mozambique, an insurgent attack in 2021 halted TotalEnergies' $20 billion LNG project for several years.

Attacks on energy infrastructure are becoming routine.

In July and August 2026, Houthi drones struck Aramco's Jazan refinery in Saudi Arabia, which processes 400,000 barrels a day. In August, drones hit Libya's Zawiya refinery, damaging storage, water and power facilities. In September, a large-scale drone attack halted the Moscow refinery. These sites are large, fixed and visible. The drones that reach them are cheap and widely available.

Monitoring works.

Once security on Nigeria's pipeline network was reinforced, recorded theft fell by more than 90%, from 102,000 barrels per day in 2021 to 9,600 in the first seven months of 2025.

Why now

Three conditions have come together.

The technology is accessible

Sensors, communications and on-device AI that once required defence procurement can now be bought commercially.

The threat is growing

Attacks on infrastructure are more frequent, and the tools to carry them out are cheaper every year.

Buyers want ownership

Governments and operators increasingly want security they own and control, rather than services supplied by foreign contractors.

However, access is starting to close. Beijing has banned the sale of consumer drones and, from November 2026, their possession within the city. The United States has announced tariffs of up to 100% on imported drones to protect its own manufacturers. In November 2026, states meet in Geneva to decide whether to open negotiations on a binding agreement on autonomous weapons.

The window is now: the technology is accessible, and the rules that will restrict it are not yet written.

Vision

A technology base, not a product line.

OA is an autonomous systems company. Protection is our first market. Our purpose is to design, and in time manufacture, autonomous systems and robotics in Africa, at scale.

Why Africa

What we are building toward

A research and engineering lab

Developing the next generation of autonomous systems and robotics for the conditions they will operate in.

Manufacturing in Africa

Moving from integrating imported components to producing our own systems on the continent.