By Muhammad Umar. This is the engineering summary of an open reference architecture. The paper, its object model as JSON and the model register are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: https://codeatoms.ai/drone-detection-dispatch-port-germany/ . DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23635729 . The operator is described by class, never by name.

A maritime and ports authority in Germany already flies a docked drone network across two port sites. The drones launch on a schedule or on demand and land hours of video and still imagery every day, and nobody can watch all of it, so oil sheen drifts, persons cross restricted zones and fenders fail while the footage sits unreviewed. The question is simple: what is happening right now, where, and which named person should respond.

1. Detect where the pixels land

Hours of daily video cannot cross a dock uplink, and detection has to survive losing it. So the design does not stream video to central servers.…