Watchman
Meridian
Karda
Furva
Gélada
Sahel Region · Est. 2026

The Security Infrastructure of the Sahel

Solar-powered surveillance towers and edge AI for remote mines, borders and energy sites. Watchman and Meridian are in development and open to pilot partners.

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12°6'N  15°2'E
N'DJAMENA, CHAD
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A region is industrializing faster than it can protect itself.

25%+
Critical Minerals
Of the world's known critical-mineral reserves are in Africa.
Source: McKinsey, African Bedrock (June 2026)
~90%
Outside the Fence
Of mining-related violence in the central Sahel happens outside mine concessions, mostly within 10 km.
Source: ACLED, Extraction under fire (July 2026)
Strategic
Targeting
Militant groups target energy, mining and border infrastructure by design, not by chance.
Off-grid
Conditions
Sites run where there is no grid power and no reliable connectivity, far from any manned position.

The market's answer is imported hardware: expensive, unsupported in the field, and carrying data-sovereignty risk that African operators will no longer accept.

Lannes is designed for Sahel conditions from the ground up, with a field base in N'Djamena and engineering in Nairobi. Harmattan dust. Lake Chad flooding. No power, no signal. The places it has to work are the places it was designed for.

02 — How It Works

Sense. Detect. Decide.

Watchman and Meridian are in development and open to pilot partners.

01
Watchman
Sense
Thermal, visual, radar and acoustic sensors on the Watchman tower.
At the Edge
02
On-device AI
Detect
Designed to classify people, vehicles, boats and wildlife in real time, with every detection logged and scored.
Offline-First Edge AI
03
Meridian
Decide
Live map, alerts, video and incident replay across every site in one dashboard, designed for encrypted operation with an on-premise option.
Unified Picture
03 — The System

Two systems
built to work together.

Watchman and Meridian are in development. Karda, Furva and Gélada are concepts on our roadmap.

WATCHMAN
Modular monitoring tower
Modular solar-powered monitoring tower with thermal, visual, radar and acoustic sensing and satellite uplink.
SENSE
MERIDIAN
Unified operations platform
DECIDE
Roadmap · Concepts
KARDA
Long-range UAV concept
FURVA
Aerial verification concept
GÉLADA
Ground vehicle concept
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