Persistent Monitoring · Facility & Venue Security · Cherokee County, GA

Continuous Aerial Monitoring. Intelligence Before Response.

The American Drone Company builds low-cost, NDAA-compliant drone squadrons for persistent facility and venue monitoring. When an incident develops, your command staff has live aerial intelligence before any response asset is deployed — so every unit that moves knows exactly what it’s moving toward.

We can set up a tabletop walkthrough with your command staff — an operational conversation, not a vendor presentation.

The American Drone Company — Model-A monitoring drone, built in Cherokee County, Georgia

Security · Compliance · Regulatory

USA-Designed & Integrated

Designed & built in the USA

NDAA Compliant

Sec. 848 · No foreign advesary components

CJIS Compliant

Liability-First Architecture with 5-day data deletion

E2E Encrypted

All video feeds secured

PAO / COA

Public Aircraft Operation

The Monitoring Layer

The Gap Between Fixed Cameras and Emergency Response.

Most facilities operate with two layers of security: fixed infrastructure that monitors from static positions, and response assets that deploy after an incident is confirmed. Persistent aerial monitoring is the intelligence layer that connects them — continuously, from above.

Fixed Cameras Have Fixed Angles

Ground-mounted cameras cannot reposition. Blind spots are permanent by design. Aerial monitoring provides dynamic coverage of the full facility footprint — perimeter, grounds, approaches, and adjacent areas that cameras never see.

Response Assets Arrive With Context

When your response units move, they move with live aerial intelligence already established. Your command staff sees what’s happening, where it’s happening, and how many people are involved — before the first unit arrives on scene.

Continuous Coverage Through Rotation

A squadron of low-cost aircraft rotating automatically means no gaps in coverage during battery swaps. When one aircraft repositions to a developing situation, the rest maintain the baseline watch. The facility is never unwatched.

The core value of many low-cost aircraft: persistent, redundant coverage at a per-hour cost that makes continuous operation sustainable. When your high-capability response assets are needed, they deploy into a situation your command staff already understands — not into the unknown.

Use Cases

Where Persistent Monitoring Changes the Operational Picture.

Adult Detention Center

Perimeter Monitoring: Continuous aerial coverage of the facility perimeter detects approaches, loitering, and suspicious activity in adjacent areas before it reaches the fence line. Ground staff receives alerts with live overhead context, not just a motion-triggered alarm.
Contraband Interdiction: Drone-facilitated contraband delivery is one of the fastest-growing security challenges facing detention facilities nationwide. Our drones add another layer of detection and defense into combating this problem.
Transport & Movement Operations: Aerial overwatch during inmate transport operations provides command staff with real-time visibility of the movement, approach routes, and any activity along the corridor — supporting your ground teams every step of the way.

County Event Venues

Sustained Area Coverage: Large gatherings — county fairs, 4th of July events, public festivals — require coverage of entry and exit points, crowd-density areas, parking approaches, and venue perimeters simultaneously. Squadron rotation maintains all zones without gaps.
Early Identification of Developing Situations: Crowd disturbances, medical emergencies, and security incidents are visible from above before ground units are aware. Early aerial detection gives command staff the time and context to respond proportionally — the right resources, in the right place, before escalation.
Scalable to Event Size: A smaller community event may require two aircraft. A major multi-venue 4th of July deployment may require six. The squadron scales to the operational requirement — no permanent infrastructure, no year-round maintenance cost on assets sitting idle between events.
Post-Event Documentation: Aerial footage from large events provides an independent record of the department’s response posture, incident timelines, and crowd conditions — documentation that supports both after-action review and any subsequent legal proceedings.

How It Works

From Monitoring to Informed Response.

The system doesn’t replace your protocols — it feeds them. Your chain of command, your deployment decisions, your officers on the ground. We provide the aerial intelligence layer that makes every one of those decisions better-informed.

Aircraft Establish Station

The squadron deploys to assigned zones — facility perimeter, venue sectors, approach corridors — and begins continuous monitoring. Automatic rotation keeps every zone covered without interruption as individual aircraft cycle for battery maintenance.

Command Monitors in Real Time

Live encrypted feeds route to your command staff. Your staff see the facility from above — continuously, not just when something goes wrong.

Incident Develops — Context Already Exists

When a situation escalates, command doesn’t send a response into the unknown. They already have aerial footage of the incident, know the number of people involved, and can direct ground units to the precise location before anyone steps out of a vehicle.

High-Capability Assets Deploy With Full Situational Awareness

When your high-capability response assets are needed, they enter the situation fully briefed. Monitoring aircraft continue on station, tracking the incident and documenting the response from above — so your specialized units can focus entirely on the mission.

Carson Hake

Founder — Woodstock, GA

Built Here

A Local Company. Not a Vendor Pitching From Out of State.

The American Drone Company is being built in Woodstock, Georgia — in Cherokee County, under CCSO jurisdiction. My background is in autonomous systems, defense electronics, and simulation engineering, with direct experience designing systems for FAA-regulated airspace and defense applications.

We are not a large vendor managing this county from a regional office somewhere else. We are a local company whose goal is to build persistent monitoring technology that genuinely serves the departments and facilities it’s deployed at — starting with the community we operate in.

Domain

Autonomous Systems & Defense Electronics

Airspace

FAA-Regulated Operations & COA Authority

Location

Woodstock, GA — Cherokee County

Next Step

Request an Operational Briefing.

We can walk through the monitoring architecture with your command staff — facility coverage mapping, squadron deployment logistics, compliance documentation, and what a pilot deployment at the detention center or a county event would actually look like operationally.

Facility-specific coverage mapping
Deployment logistics & cost structure
Integration with your existing PAO / COA authority

Responses are direct — no sales team, no routing.