Federation

What is Federation?

Federation allows Soundryx customers to securely share anonymized alerts about unidentified aircraft with other Soundryx networks in the same geographic region.

• If your sensors detect an aircraft without a transponder (e.g., no FAA Remote ID or ADS-B signal), Federation can notify neighboring networks that the aircraft may be approaching them.
• Federation is opt-in. You can enable or disable participation at any time in the Soundryx dashboard.
• Only airborne detections are federated. Ground events like vehicles, boats, gunshots, or alarms are never shared.

Benefits of Federation

• Early warning. Receive alerts about potential airborne threats before they arrive overhead.
• Regional coverage. Even a small network benefits from the reach of a larger regional grid.
• Collective security. Each deployment strengthens the early-warning system for all participants.
• Control. Choose whether to federate only with private neighbors or also with government agencies.

Privacy

Federation is designed with strict privacy protections:

• Opt-in only. You can enable, disable, or change federation settings at any time.
• Aircraft-only. Alerts are shared only for aircraft without a transponder (such as FAA Remote ID or ADS-B).
  All ground-based detections (boats, gunshots, explosions, vehicles, etc.) remain private to your network.
• No audio shared. Soundryx sensors never store or transmit raw audio. Neither your network nor the federation ever receives recordings.
• No sensor locations shared. Federation never discloses the positions of customer sensors. Alerts provide only Soundryx’s best estimate of where an aircraft may be heading.
• No customer identities shared. Other networks never see which customer originated an alert.
• Alert curation. You can withdraw your alerts at any time by marking them as Benign, Neutralized, False Positive, or Private.

Eligibility

Federation is a perk, not a guaranteed feature. Most long-term customers are eligible, but some deployments are excluded, such as:

1. Trial, demo, or pilot program participants.
2. Temporary rentals for short-term events.
3. Customers restricted by U.S. or local law from sending or receiving aircraft location data.
4. Customers operating near friendly military airfields or other areas prone to frequent false positives.

Protecting Integrity

Soundryx continuously monitors sensor metadata to keep federation trustworthy.
We may prevent, pause, or disable federation for specific customers if we detect conditions that threaten system integrity, including:

• Excessive false positives.
• Sensors that appear damaged, vandalized, sabotaged, or stolen.
• Jamming, spoofing, or dazzling of microphones, cameras, or radios.
• Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against Soundryx or customer infrastructure.

If federation is paused, only external alerts are silenced. Your own sensors will always continue sending alerts to your local network.

Reliability

Other networks in a federation may be less reliable than your own network. Soundryx does not offer a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) regarding the deliverability or accuracy of alerts from other networks in a federation.

Availability may vary due to:

• Neighboring networks going offline from misconfiguration or outages.
• Adversarial activity such as jamming or spoofing.
• Severe weather or natural disasters affecting sensors.

Federating with Governments

Government agencies may choose to join a Soundryx federation.

Private-sector customers remain in control of whether to share alerts with government agencies.

Private-sector customers may choose to federate alerts with any of the following:

• Law enforcement. Local police, sheriffs, or state agencies with jurisdiction.
• Military authorities. In extraordinary cases such as national defense.
• Civilian agencies. Non-law enforcement bodies like park services or land management agencies.

Government agencies only receive an alert when:

1. the detection occurred within their legal jurisdiction, and
2. the sensor owner has consented to federate with government subscribers.

Additional rules:

• Alerts are for situational awareness only. They are not exact flight tracks and are not admissible in court.
• To comply with classification and privacy requirements, government subscribers are not required to contribute their own detections back into Federation.