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Know what’s overhead. Always.

SkySphere is a 180° all-sky AI camera. Drones, aircraft, satellites, meteors, the occasional UAP — it watches the entire sky above you and pings you the moment something shows up.

180°
Field of view
9
AI object classes
100%
On-device AI
24/7
Situational awareness
DRONE 96%
AIRCRAFT 91%
BIRD 88%
SAT 84%
FOV 180°
AI SkyNet 2.1
DETECT 4 objects
FPS 30.0
SkySphere all-sky AI camera

Built to live
on your roof.

A single sealed unit: 180° dome optics, on-device AI silicon, and a weatherproof chassis. One PoE+ cable in, your full sky out.

Your sky, your alerts

Know your sky. Get eyes on what's overhead.

Pick the things you want to know about. SkySphere watches 24/7 and pings you the moment one shows up overhead.

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Built for situational awareness

Know what's overhead. Always.

A 180° dome, on-device AI, and persistent track IDs — SkySphere watches your full hemisphere and tells you the moment anything matters.

Verifiable capture log

Every frame is timestamped and signed at capture, so your sky log is tamper-evident. Optional, never required — capture and detection always work without it.

180° all-sky coverage

One unit, full hemisphere. No pan, no tilt, no blind spots. Every square inch above you, all the time.

On-device AI

Drones, aircraft, birds, satellites, meteors, UAP — 9 classes, all classified locally on a custom NPU. Nothing leaves your network unless you publish it.

Real-time alerts

Persistent track IDs, velocity vectors, altitude estimates. Geofenced webhooks fire the moment something crosses your perimeter.

Contribute to the network

Opt-in publishing turns your detections into part of an open sky atlas. Researchers, airports, and pilots can query it — you own the raw frames forever.

Weatherproof, set-and-forget

IP67 sealed dome. PoE+ single-cable install. Optional 40W solar kit for off-grid sites. Mount it level, plug it in, walk away.

More than security

One sky. Four ways to watch it.

SkySphere started as a perimeter sensor — but the same hardware that catches a drone catches meteors, satellites, migrating birds, and the wonder of a kid seeing their first ISS pass. Same dome. Different reasons to look up.

Sky Guardian

Perimeter awareness

For estates, facilities, and operators who need a 24/7 record of what crosses their airspace.

  • Drone, aircraft, and helicopter classification
  • Sub-second detection latency, on-device
  • Geofenced alerts to phone or NVR
Sky Watcher

Astronomy & wonder

A meteor camera, ISS-pass capturer, and time-lapse rig in one. Auto-stacks the good frames overnight.

  • Meteors, fireballs, satellites, conjunctions
  • Auto-stacked all-sky time-lapses
  • Personal capture archive — every frame is yours
Citizen Network

Citizen science

Every unit is a node in an open, planet-wide sky atlas — contributed by you, queryable by researchers.

  • Open API for meteor & satellite trajectories
  • Cross-unit triangulation of fireballs & UAP
  • You opt in per-class; raw frames stay yours
Classroom

Education & outreach

A live, full-sky teaching instrument for schools, planetariums, and after-school astronomy clubs.

  • Classroom dashboard with labelled tracks
  • Lesson packs: orbits, meteor counts, light pollution
  • Education pricing & bulk school licensing
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Early access

From our beta testers.

“Caught three drones drifting over our facility on night one. The detection latency is genuinely under a second — I haven't seen anything like it at this price point.”

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Marc Reinholt
Security Director · Logistics, Hamburg

“I bought it for the Perseids. I kept it for the daily satellite passes, the morning bird flocks, and the one UAP we still can't explain. It's the most fun camera I own.”

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Sarah Kuznetsova
Astrophotographer · Atacama

“My Year 7s now run the morning satellite-pass briefing themselves. The dashboard is so clear they correct ME on which Starlink train is which. It's the best science kit we've bought in a decade.”

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Priya Aderinto
Physics teacher · Manchester

“We triangulated a fireball over three SkySphere nodes last month — a meteorite recovery that would have been impossible a year ago. The open atlas is the real product.”

Dr. Renata Córdova
Meteor scientist · Atacama Sky Atlas
Sample captures

Real frames from real units.

All captures below are unedited stills from prototype SkySphere units in the field. AI detection overlays are toggleable.

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Common questions

FAQ.

The SkySphere unit (180° dome camera with on-device AI), universal pole/wall mount, 30m PoE+ cable, weatherproof RJ45 connector, and a quick-start card. Solar kit and PoE+ injector sold separately.
SkySphere watches your full hemisphere 24/7 and pings you the moment something interesting shows up — a drone, a low-flying aircraft, an unexpected object. You're not staring at a feed; you're getting actionable alerts only when they matter.
No. Core detection runs entirely on the unit. Optional cloud archival is pay-as-you-go — no recurring fee, no lock-in.
Yes. Every detection class runs on the custom NPU inside the camera. Your video stream never leaves your local network unless you explicitly publish a capture.
Backer units ship in Q1 2027. Founder-tier backers (first 500) ship in November 2026 with priority firmware access.
A PTZ has high zoom but a 5–10° field of view at any moment — it watches one slice at a time. SkySphere watches the full hemisphere always, then digitally crops the region of interest. You never miss what was happening behind the thing you were tracking.
Yes. Universal mount, single PoE+ cable, 30-second iOS/Android setup flow. Mount it level, plug it in, point your phone — done.
SkySphere is a passive optical sensor pointed at the sky. It does not transmit, jam, or interfere with anything. Legal anywhere a camera is legal — local privacy laws apply.