Aerbits / Municipal Infrastructure / 2026

Ground truth,
not more tickets.

Your public works department already has a backlog of existing reports — complaints from residents, internal inspections, tickets that take weeks to verify. Aerbits provides daily aerial ground truth to validate, correct, and close the information gap. No overwhelming crews with more sources of reporting. Just current-condition photo evidence for every open work order, updated daily. No license plate readers. No facial recognition. No law enforcement.

City of Oakland
First in the nation

Oakland officially adopts Aerbits technology. PAC & Council approval · Mayoral press conference · Contract execution underway

See Oakland

The Problem

Information gap, not a work gap.
Your crews work hard. But they're flying blind.

Every city has a backlog of work orders, but nobody knows which ones are still active, which have already been cleaned, and which were false reports. Crews spend more time verifying than cleaning. Aerial ground truth closes the gap — without adding to the pile.

1,000+
Backlogged work orders
Hours/day
Managing ticket verification
30–40%
Already cleared or false
Weeks
Outdated ground truth

Method

How it works.

Daily aerial ground truth updates every work order with current-condition photo evidence. Crews get cleanup lists with verified information — no guesswork, no wasted trips.

Step 01

Aerial Camera

Enterprise drones equipped with high-resolution cameras fly systematic routes covering your entire city — every neighborhood, every street. Daily coverage ensures nothing goes unnoticed.

Step 02

AI Detection

Custom-trained deep learning model identifies illegal dumping materials: mattresses, furniture, tires, appliances, construction debris, and bulk waste.

Step 03

Geospatial Mapping

Precise GPS coordinates, photo documentation, severity scoring, and change detection for every site. Know exactly where, how big, and whether sites are growing.

Step 04

Work Order Validation

Aerial photos are matched to every open work order in the survey area. Active sites get current-condition photos and updated status. Clean sites get closure evidence. False reports get identified with photo proof — no manual verification needed.

Step 05

Work Order Closure

Follow-up flights provide photo proof that sites have been cleaned or were false reports. Close backlogged work orders with definitive evidence — no field verification needed.

Step 06

Trend Analysis

Identify hotspots, track patterns over time, and optimize crew deployment. Data-driven resource allocation based on actual need, not just complaint volume.

Coverage

Ground truth. Square mile by square mile.

Systematic aerial routes cover your entire city — every neighborhood, every street. In a single flight, one square mile of backlogged work orders is verified with timestamped photo proof. Crews get the real picture, not the complaint picture.

Aerial photo showing clean street with no dumping present
✓ Verified Clean

Photo proof to close tickets

Location2847 3rd Street

Work Order#45782

StatusSite verified clean — no dumping present

Close work order with timestamped aerial photo as evidence. No field visit required.

Clear backlogs by the square mile.

Coverage per flight
1sq mile
Flight duration
~30min
Photos captured
1,000+locations
Tickets verified
100%in area
Result
All resolved

Ground truth, square mile by square mile. Aerbits software automatically matches aerial photos to open work orders across every neighborhood, providing definitive photo evidence to close every stale report. No field visits, no guesswork — just proof of what's actually there right now.

01

Validate the existing queue first

Before we generate a single new detection, our system scans every open work order in the survey area. Aerial photos provide current-condition evidence for each one. Sites already cleaned get closed with proof. Active sites get updated images.

02

Close the information gap

Not every complaint is accurate, and not every cleaned site has a closed ticket. Aerial verification identifies both — false reports get closed with confidence, completed cleanups get documented. Crews stop wasting trips checking stale information.

03

No field verification required

Stop sending crews to verify old reports. Daily aerial coverage provides the evidence you need without dispatching trucks or inspectors. The same crews spend their time cleaning, not checking.

04

Build the full picture with crews

Once the existing queue is validated, we work with crews to identify unreported dumping. Not all at once — collaboratively, at the pace that makes sense for the people doing the work. Their ground knowledge plus aerial ground truth.

Pipeline

Three steps from photo to closed ticket.

Detect. Correlate. Update. No new work orders — just current-condition ground truth for every existing ticket.

01

Detect

AI detection with segmentation masks and confidence scores on aerial orthomosaic

Computer vision scans aerial photos and identifies illegal dumping with 94%+ confidence. GPS coordinates, size estimates, and classifications are automatically generated for every detection.

02

Correlate

Batch processing pipeline with per-tile inference outputs

Software automatically matches GPS coordinates from detections to open work order locations. Identifies which sites are clean, which have active dumping, and which are unreported.

03

Update

Work orders updated with photo proof of clean sites

Each work order receives timestamped aerial photos as evidence. Clean sites are auto-closed with proof. Active sites get updated images. Unreported sites are flagged for crew consultation — no new tickets without context.

ResultComplete ground truth from existing work order to current condition. Systematic flights cover your entire city — square mile by square mile — validating every location and updating every ticket. No new sources of work. A new source of truth.

Outcomes

Four ways to close the information gap.

Stop guessing which work orders are real. Start deploying crews based on current-condition ground truth.

Clear

Clear your backlog

Close stale work orders with photo proof that sites have been cleaned or were false reports. Aerial verification provides definitive evidence for every open ticket. Clear 1,000+ backlogged tickets in days, not months.

Close

Close work orders automatically

Aerbits handles the before-and-after documentation so crews don't have to. No more dispatching trucks to check if sites are still active. Automated daily flights handle verification — your team just gets cleanup lists with photo evidence.

Fill

Close the information gap

30–50% of dumpsites never get reported. But before we look for what's missing, we validate what's already in the queue. Once the existing picture is accurate, we work with crews — not around them — to fill in the gaps.

Truth

Daily ground truth

Know the actual status of every work order, every day. No more working from weeks-old reports or unverified complaints. Current conditions, timestamped photos, GPS coordinates — the complete picture updated daily.

San Francisco · Bayview · Now scaling to Oakland

Proven results.

This technology has been deployed and validated in the field. In the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood — one of San Francisco's most impacted areas — daily aerial detection and reporting transformed the landscape. The same approach now scales to city-wide deployment in Oakland, covering every neighborhood.

96% Reduction
118 active dumpsites reduced to 5 through consistent daily detection and automated 311 reporting.
Continuous Reporting

Key InsightContinuous reporting steadily decreases the amount of waste on the streets and sidewalks.

Contact

Ready to see every dumpsite?

Let's discuss how aerial detection can transform your city's approach to illegal dumping.