HERM-IS

High, Elevation, Re-cognisance, Mobile – Imaging system (HERM-IS) is the newest edition to the current trend of unmanned aerial surveillance. In the next few years the small company that developed HERM-IS - whose name remains disclosed for security reasons –hope to make a large dent in the monopolized civil defence and military intelligence industries.  The main attractions of the HERM-IS surveillance technology is the extremely inexpensive production costs (roughly £30 per unit) and a wide expanse of pre-existing infrastructure that can easily be adapted, to cater for a growing network of these systems.

The name HERM-IS was conceived by one of the imaging system’s chief engineers. It is a play on the Greek god; Hermes, the divine messenger and God of travellers and boundaries. Hermes also held the epithet Argeiphontes which literally translates as “Argus-Slayer” and recalls his slaying of Argus Panoptes: the one-hundred eyed giant, whom the name of HERM-IS’ biggest adversary derives; the infamous ‘ARGUS-IS’.