SECTOR 03 · UTILITIES & DESAL · THE GRID YOU CANNOT SHUT DOWN

The grid you
cannot shut down.

In the Gulf, electricity is water. RADI is being engineered as the deterrence layer around the substations, desalination plants, and water works that keep a city habitable — where a drone-caused outage isn’t inconvenience, it’s casualty.

~ 42%
— UAE water from desal
~ 6 h
— survival window without power (peak summer)
~ 4
— hostile drone-linked substation events (region, 24 mo)
§ 01— The threat here

Four ways a drone
takes a city off the grid.

01
— TRANSFORMER STRIKE

One shot, half a district.

A small kinetic payload onto an in-service high-voltage transformer takes weeks to replace. A city block of 40 000 residents can drop in fifteen seconds.

SAQR · KINETIC INTERCEPT
02
— INTAKE CONTAMINATION

The drone that lands in the sea.

A drone carrying contaminant sprayed at a desalination intake. Not the movies — a documented, planned threat vector. Design intent: coastal coverage as well as landside.

RASAD · MARITIME COVERAGE
03
— SWITCHYARD RECON

Mapping the arc-flash zones.

ISR runs profiling the switchyard, timing crew rotations, mapping where an operator would be during a real attack. The precursor pattern we intend to catch.

HARAS · ISR PATTERN DETECTION
04
— CONTROL-ROOM RECON

A camera through a window.

Small drones tasked to visually acquire SCADA console screens through control-room windows — a documented vector for follow-on cyber attack.

SAMT · ROOFTOP DENIAL
§ 02— The RADI answer

A recommended stack
for critical utilities.

§ 03— Operational context

Design intent
for utility operators.

— IEC 61850 SUBSTATION AWARE

A citizen of the substation LAN.

Design intent: RADI hardware coexists with IEC 61850 substation automation without interfering. No RF emission into GOOSE/SV subnets. No physical fouling of switchyard clearances.

— DEWA / ADWEA / SEWA READY

The utility already runs this.

Design intent: HARAS output compatible with UAE utility SOC formats. Every track becomes a security event of the type utility operators already handle.

— NEVER A SCHEDULED OUTAGE

Hot-standby, always.

HARAS being designed with dual-appliance active-standby, hitless firmware, and dual-fibre uplinks. The utility never sees the counter-drone system’s bad day.