Six operating environments. One airframe platform.
Utilities, security, search and rescue, oil and gas, defence, emergency services and agriculture all count among the growing number of sectors deploying UAS at scale. The mission changes. The architecture, the parts bin and the three-minute build do not.
Where these aircraft earn their place.
Each sector below carries its own colour, its own mission set and its own recommended airframes. Follow one through to see how the platform is configured for it.
Each sector carries its own colour.
Colour is not decoration in this system. Every sector is assigned a colour from the brand palette, and that colour follows the sector across all ShadowVu material: the site, technical documentation, proposals, training packs and stands. A defence document and a defence page should read as the same conversation before a word of it is read.
Two of the six share a colour. Defence and Security both run on Haze Grey, because the operating picture and the buying case sit close together. Core Aqua is the signal colour of the wider brand and is used sparingly, which is exactly why it marks one sector and nothing else. Partner Purple sits outside the sector set entirely and belongs to the partner programme.
Palette and sector mapping taken from the Berkeley ShadowVu Brand Guidelines V2.
How a deployment is scoped.
The sector sets the question. The process for answering it is the same everywhere, and it starts long before an aircraft is chosen.
Survey the requirement
Before an airframe is chosen, the question is what has to be seen, how often, over what ground and under what constraint. Regulatory position, comms environment and who will actually fly the aircraft shape the answer more than any specification sheet does.
Select the airframe
Five airframes share one architecture, so the decision is a frame class and an endurance profile, not a separate product with its own spares, tooling and training. Most operators standardise on one aircraft and add a second for the edge cases.
Specify the payload
Cameras are fixed or gimballed, and mission-specific payloads are developed in house or alongside partners through ShadowVu Labs. Flexible tooling takes a new variant from requirement to production in about two weeks.
Train the operators
Aircraft fly manually or autonomously and speak to TAK, ATAK and QGroundControl, so crews work in the ground control software they already know. RTK native navigation keeps positioning consistent across every airframe in the fleet.
Support in the field
A thirty foot drop is a repair, not a write-off. Inexpensive core components and a real spare parts supply put the aircraft back in the air the same day, while Everest keeps the fleet, the data and the live picture in one place.
Get the full picture
Tell us the mission. We will tell you the airframe.
Every deployment starts with the same conversation about what has to be seen, how often and under what constraint. Bring the requirement and we will be straight with you about what the platform does and does not do.