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SPARC AI FLIES BLIND AND STILL HITS THE MARK: OVERWATCH LOCATES TARGETS WITH DRONE CAMERA FULLY COVERED

Sparc AI Inc. has successfully completed a series of flight tests in which the Overwatch Positioning Network accurately calculated target locations while the drone's camera was physically blindfolded and covered.

With the camera lens fully obscured for the duration of the tests, the aircraft flew a structured test pattern and the Overwatch API returned target coordinates computed entirely from flight telemetry. The results confirm a deliberate design principle of the Overwatch architecture: the positioning solve uses no image recognition software and no preloaded reference imagery of any kind.

Most alternative approaches to GPS-denied positioning and targeting rely on computer vision with matching camera imagery against stored maps or terrain features. Those systems degrade or fail at night, in fog, smoke, or dust, over water, snow, desert and featureless terrain, and they require imagery of the operating area to be collected and loaded in advance.

Overwatch is telemetry only and none of these limitations apply. The successful blindfold tests demonstrate that Overwatch performs identically in zero-visibility conditions, and that the onboard camera serves purely as an operator aiming aid and not as a sensor input to the positioning calculation.

The vision-free architecture also underpins Overwatch's integration model. The system requires no hardware or software installed on the aircraft. Its inputs are telemetry that every commercial flight controller already produces, and its output is standard latitude, longitude and time -- indistinguishable to an autopilot from a conventional GPS fix.

This means any drone OEM (original equipment manufacturer) can integrate the Sparc AI API into an existing workflow without redesigning the aircraft or its autonomy stack. Overwatch can be deployed as a backup position source that takes over when satellite navigation is jammed or unavailable, blended continuously alongside existing sensors, or used as the primary position source in denied environments. Overwatch is not a rip-and-replace proposition.

As no imagery is captured, transmitted or processed by the Overwatch service, no visual data ever leaves the aircraft through the Sparc AI API when used in field operations. Combined with the platform's stateless, no-data-retention design, this materially simplifies security review for defense and government customers.

About Sparc AI Inc.

Sparc AI is a defence technology company solving navigation in GNSS-denied environments. Its flagship product, Overwatch, is a platform that ingests telemetry from drones and other moving platforms and returns absolute latitude and longitude -— no onboard software, no edge hardware and no reliance on GPS. Delivered as a stateless service, Overwatch gives commercial and defence operators dependable positioning wherever satellite signals are jammed, spoofed or unavailable.

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