Splash247: New platform fuses drone and navigation threat detection for ports

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German security technology company hensec has launched a port security platform combining drone detection with monitoring for GPS and other satellite-navigation interference.

The new Port Airspace and GNSS Security, or Portags, system brings radio-frequency sensors, passive radar and Global Navigation Satellite System monitoring into a single operational picture designed for port security teams.

Rather than running individual detection systems separately, Portags correlates their data to identify and assess both airborne activity and interference with navigation signals.

RF sensors can pick up Remote ID, control, communications and telemetry transmissions from drones, while passive radar is used to detect airborne objects that are not transmitting. The GNSS side of the platform monitors signal quality for jamming and spoofing, where false positioning or timing data is fed to receivers.

“Shared situational awareness isn’t achieved simply by installing more and more individual sensors,” said hensec managing director Kevin Heneka. “What matters is bringing their data together, correlating it and presenting it in a way that allows security teams to quickly understand what is actually happening.”

The various feeds are combined using sensor fusion, with incidents displayed centrally and logged for later analysis. Hensec said deployments can be tailored to individual sites and run in stationary or mobile configurations.

Potential applications include container terminals, tank farms, port entrances and automated terminals, as well as energy and communications infrastructure located within port areas.

The launch comes amid growing concern over both drones and satellite-navigation disruption around northern European ports and shipping lanes.

In January, Finland and 13 other European states warned the international maritime community that GNSS interference was creating increasing safety and security risks for shipping in the Baltic and North Seas.

Hensec has also been involved in research into Baltic interference. A monitoring campaign in the southern Baltic during 2025 detected both jamming and spoofing, including periods when interference at sea was stronger than that recorded around Gdansk.

The Karlsruhe-based company already supplies standalone GNSS interference detection and airspace monitoring technology, including systems designed to identify transmitting and non-cooperative airborne objects.

Portags brings those areas together as Baltic countries step up cooperation on hybrid threats. Ministers meeting at the Baltic Sea Security Summit in Flensburg in August agreed to establish a task force and strengthen cooperation on drone defence, with airports and seaports among the infrastructure specifically in focus.