Practice with simulated devices
A simulated drone, radar or jammer behaves like real hardware: it reports its position and battery, a radar reports what it sees, and you command it from the same screens. Try every Skill, alarm and schedule on them before a real drone flies.
Before you begin
- A console account with the organization administrator role. Everyone else can see the simulated devices but not add or change them.
- The simulator running on your platform. If you don't see Simulation under Manage, ask your administrator.
Your simulated fleet
Open Manage›Simulation›Simulators. Each device shows its kind, its status, where it is, and for a drone its mode and battery, for a radar or jammer its coverage.
| Status | Means |
|---|---|
| Stopped | Does nothing until started. The device stays. |
| Running | A drone that is on and reporting. |
| Connecting | A radar or jammer that is on but not yet connected to the platform. |
| Search, Track | A radar's current mode. |
| Standby, Jamming | A jammer's current mode. |
Hover over a status to see what it means. Every simulated device also appears under Manage›Operations›Assets with a SIMULATED badge, so you never mistake it for real hardware.
Load a ready-made site
The quickest start: select Load preset.
- Perimeter: a radar that sees all round for 3 km and reports made-up drones and persons, and a jammer facing north-east.
- Object protection: the perimeter plus a second jammer and a second drone.
Devices you already have are struck through and left as they are. Select Add to add the rest; they start right away.
Add a single device
Choose the kind
Select New simulated device and pick Drone, Radar or Jammer. Optionally give it a serial number and a name.
Place it
Click the map where it stands, or type a place into Search a location…. For a drone, this is its home.
Set what it covers
For a radar or jammer, set where it faces, how wide it sees or jams, and how far. For a jammer, tick the bands it can jam.
Let it report made-up intruders
For a radar, leave Synthetic detections on: it reports made-up drones and persons inside its coverage, so your alarms fire without anyone flying an intruder.
Add it
Leave Start right away on and select Add.
Start, stop and remove
- Stop pauses a device; Start wakes it again. It keeps its place in your fleet.
- Remove deletes the device. Select it twice: the button asks Remove asset? for a few seconds before it does.
Removing a simulated device removes it from the platform. A schedule, trigger or Application that names it no longer finds it.
What you have now
- A practice fleet that behaves like the real one.
- Alarms you can fire on demand, without anyone in the air.
Troubleshooting
- A radar or jammer stays on Connecting. The platform's sensor connection isn't reachable from the simulator. Ask your administrator to check it.
- Your own drone triggers the alarm. A radar reports your drones as FRIENDLY_UAV. Filter the trigger on an object type such as UAV. See Start a response when something happens.
- The Simulation menu is missing. The simulator isn't part of your installation.