Why pilot
A lab result does not tell you how Vantage behaves in your buildings. A pilot does.
Who can pilot
Open to the teams Vantage is built for.
Pilot programs are open to public safety agencies and federal agencies in the United States, and to qualified operators for the buildings they own or run.
Rescue
Fire and rescue
Fire departments and urban search and rescue teams, in the structures your crews train in and enter.
Law enforcement
Tactical and patrol
Tactical teams, patrol and warrant service, with every pilot session run under a training basis.
Emergency management
Disaster response
Agencies that plan for and respond to disasters, from storm damage to partial collapse.
Federal
Federal agencies
Federal law enforcement, disaster response and protective services.
How a pilot runs
Four stages, agreed before the first read.
- Agree the plan
The sites, the scenarios and what counts as a miss are set in a written evaluation plan before anything starts.
- Train your team
Your operators and supervisors learn to open a session, record its basis and read the results.
- Run it blind
Your staff place role players who have agreed to take part. The operator does not know where.
- Report in full
How often Vantage was right, how often it said no read, and every time it was wrong.
The evaluation plan
Agreed before it starts. Your decision when it ends.
Every pilot starts from a written plan, so the measure of success is fixed before the first reading, not after it. You choose the structures, your staff control the ground truth, and you decide whether Vantage earns a place in your operations. Nothing is assumed.
- Training for operators and supervisors
- An evaluation plan agreed before it starts
- A full results report, including every miss
- Terms agreed with each agency in writing
- Sites
- Your structures
- Operators
- Your team, trained
- Ground truth
- Placed by your staff
- Governance
- Training basis, sealed
- Report
- Full, with every miss
- Decision
- Yours
What the report covers
The misses are on the table.
Results from your evaluation are shared with your agency in full. Nothing is left out because it looks bad.
Accuracy
How often it was right.
Room by room, against the ground truth your staff placed.
No reads
How often it could not see.
Every room that returned a no read. Those rooms stay on your search plan.
Misses
Every miss, both kinds.
A missed person and a false alarm are both reported, every time either happens.
Timing
Setup and first reading.
Measured with your team, in your buildings, and reported to you in full.
Governance during a pilot
A training basis, and a sealed record.
Pilot sessions run on your own structures under a training basis, with people who have agreed to take part. Each one is recorded and sealed like any other session, and kept apart from your operational records.
Questions about pilots
What agencies ask before a pilot.
Where does a pilot take place?
In your buildings, on structures your team chooses. We read the structures your crews actually enter, not a showroom.
Who places the ground truth?
Your staff. They place role players who have agreed to take part, and the operator does not know where.
Will we see the misses?
Yes. Accuracy, no-read rates and every miss from your evaluation are shared with your agency in full.
How long does a pilot last, and what does it cost?
Both are set in the evaluation plan and the written terms agreed with your agency before anything starts.
Can our counsel and oversight staff take part?
Yes. Counsel and oversight staff are welcome from the first briefing onward.
What happens after the pilot?
You decide whether Vantage earns a place in your operations. If you go ahead, our procurement support covers quotes, specifications, grant details and review.
Vantage · pilot programs
Put Vantage to the test on your own structures.
Every pilot runs in your buildings, with your team, measured against the outcomes you choose.