KWESST Lightning™

DEFSEC Technologies is the Canadian leader in enhanced situational awareness solutions for police and first responders

  • Built on our experience with TAK development for North American militaries – DEFSEC Technologies is bringing cloud-based, intuitive, real-time situational awareness capabilities to the public safety sector. Our successes include the development and demonstrations of our Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR) tool for industry partnered law enforcement and a pilot of our cloud-based solution for use in wildfire recovery efforts. In a world where seconds matter, our mission is to enhance situational awareness and advance technologies that improve the safety of public safety personnel.

KWESST Lightning™ – your secure integration platform for TAK

    KWESST Lightning™ is a cloud-hosted TAK-based SaaS platform that enables rapid incident responses with instant onboarding for inter-agency collaboration and real-time encrypted communication (text, voice, photo, video). Its simplified and intuitive interface requires no hardware, software, or IT maintenance, ensuring fast scalability without straining resources. With no major capital investment needed, it delivers secure and efficient incident management for organizations of any size.

KWESST Lightning™ benefits:

  • Optimizes workflows
  • Rapid response to an incident
  • Instant on-boarding of agencies, organizations and volunteers
  • Facilitates real-time encrypted communication (text, voice, photo, video) and integrates drone feeds
  • Auto-scalability
  • Cloud-hosted
  • Easy-to-use interface
  • No strain on staffing and financial resources
  • Software as a service (Saas) product
  • Wake-up capability to help preserve battery life
  • It’s secure and affordable