The film · 1:30 · dramatized scenario
One operator answers a border fence alert with a drone swarm.
A fence sensor fires. One operator plans a patrol in Atlas, reylink's operator UI, launches five drones on one confirmation and makes every call after that, from a person detected to the last drone home. Real software, simulated flight.
Dramatized scenario. The Atlas screens are the real software, flying simulated drones (PX4 SITL and Gazebo) with a simulated detector and camera. Sped-up segments are marked on screen, and the map animations are illustrative.
What the film shows
- 0:00"The border never sleeps." The opening map closes in on a border fence.
- 0:15A fence sensor reports a touch in sector 7, segment C. "Seconds matter."
- 0:22Title: reylink Atlas, swarm supervision system.
- 0:2501 · Plan. The operator draws the line; Atlas plans the patrol.
- 0:2702 · Check. Pre-flight gates run before anything flies.
- 0:3003 · Launch. The operator arms and launches with one confirmation.
- 0:32Five drones climb to 20 m and their patrol routes draw on.
- 0:37Atlas, live: the five fly their routes, with the mission clock on screen.
- 0:4304 · Detect. A simulated detector flags a person, confidence 90%.
- 0:4805 · Decide. Atlas proposes that px4_3, the drone that found it, hold over the finding while the others keep their own work. If no one confirms within 30 s, the proposal expires and nothing is dispatched. The operator confirms.
- 0:5606 · Eyes on. px4_3's simulated camera looks down on the finding.
- 1:0107 · Cover. The rest keep patrolling.
- 1:0508 · Recall. Atlas stages a return for every drone. Nothing is sent until the operator confirms; on confirmation, the mission gateway checks the request again.
- 1:10Sector clear: the five fly home to their launch points.
- 1:20End card: what is real in the film, and the credits.
What is real in it
Real software. Every Atlas screen is recorded from the real operator UI: the patrol plan, the pre-flight gates, the launch confirmation, the finding, the proposal and the recall.
Simulated. The five drones are PX4 autopilots in software-in-the-loop simulation with Gazebo. The person detector is simulated, and the drone camera is a Gazebo render. Nothing in the film flew on real aircraft.
Made for the film. The scenario is dramatized, and the screen says so throughout: the opening map and the alert are marked as a dramatized scenario, the lift-off and the flight home as illustrative animation, and sped-up Atlas footage shows its speed.
The operator decides. Atlas proposes, and nothing it proposes is dispatched until the operator confirms. An unconfirmed proposal expires with nothing sent, and a staged recall goes out only after the operator confirms it and the mission gateway checks it again.
Film conditions: dramatized scenario. The Atlas footage was recorded on 2026-10-19 from the real software flying five simulated PX4 drones (software-in-the-loop with Gazebo), with a simulated detector and camera. Nothing in the film was flown on real aircraft.
Credits: map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth · AWS Terrain Tiles (SRTM, USGS) · Atlas basemap: Google, imagery ©2026 Airbus, CNES / Airbus, Maxar Technologies · camera ground imagery © Microsoft.