generated: '2026-08-01'
method: searched
source: https://www.echodyne.com/radar-systems/echoware
sources:
- https://www.echodyne.com/radar-systems/echoware
- https://www.echodyne.com/radar-systems/echoguard
- https://www.echodyne.com/radar-systems/echoshield
- https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69148cb0d4c3689c365788f0/6a55591add6872e68b75655d_TS-EchoGuard-Echodyne_6JL.pdf
- https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69148cb0d4c3689c365788f0/6a5558f970a01479ae2a92b7_TS-EchoShield-Echodyne_6JL.pdf
- https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69148cb0d4c3689c365788f0/69e12c6f5b8e68081a470899_TS-SS-Echodyne-6AP.pdf
note: 'Echodyne publishes no public API reference. Everything below is taken from published
  product technical sheets and product pages. Conventions that are genuinely not published
  (request/response envelope, idempotency, pagination, versioning headers, error format,
  rate-limit signalling) are recorded as unknown rather than guessed.'
architecture:
  model: on-premise device and network API
  description: 'EchoWare abstracts n Echodyne radars into a single radar instance behind one
    interface, with a single Track ID per object across the radar network. It supports a UI
    mode and a headless mode in which an external command-and-control system uses the data
    and management APIs to drive the radar network directly.'
  deployment: operator-hosted (bare metal, VM, or Docker for US-GOV); no vendor-hosted SaaS
    endpoint is published
transport:
  control_io: Gigabit Ethernet (TCP/IP)
  data_io:
  - product: EchoGuard
    link: Gigabit Ethernet
  - product: EchoShield
    link: 10 Gbps Ethernet for range-Doppler spectrograms; 1 Gbps Ethernet for detections,
      measurements, tracks and radar status
  encoding: proprietary Echodyne format (per product pages); the wire schema is not published
    on the open web
data_products:
- name: range-doppler-spectrograms
  aka: R/V maps
  description: Raw range-Doppler spectrogram data for offboard processing and multi-sensor
    fusion.
  throughput_echoguard: 40 MBps
- name: detections
  description: Per-dwell detections.
  throughput_echoguard: 1 MBps
- name: measurements
  description: Per-dwell measurements.
  throughput_echoguard: 1 MBps
- name: tracks
  description: Fused object tracks. EchoGuard supports up to 20 simultaneous tracks; EchoShield
    tracks more than 1,000 objects of interest. Track update rate 10 Hz on both.
  throughput_echoguard: 25 KBps
- name: radar-status
  description: Radar health and state telemetry.
authentication:
  radar_api: not published (see authentication/echodyne-authentication.yml)
  customer_portal: OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 (Salesforce Experience Cloud) — see
    authentication/echodyne-authentication.yml
idempotency:
  supported: unknown
  note: No idempotency contract is published. No Idempotency pointer is emitted for this
    provider.
pagination:
  supported: unknown
  note: Not published. The primary data surface is a continuous 10 Hz stream, not a paged
    collection.
versioning:
  scheme: radar firmware / software release version
  evidence: 'EchoWare minimum system requirements name "EchoShield radars running software
    version 8.1"'
  api_versioning: not published
error_handling:
  format: not published
  note: No public error reference or problem-details contract.
rate_limits:
  signalling: not published
  note: 'Throughput is bounded by the radar hardware and link, not by an API quota: track
    update rate is fixed at 10 Hz and per-stream data rates are published per product (see
    data_products).'
integration_surfaces:
- name: EchoWare UI
  description: Browser-based operator interface (Google Chrome, current stable).
- name: Headless management/data API
  description: Well-defined data and management APIs for direct C2 control of the radar
    network.
- name: ATAK plugin
  description: Android Team Awareness Kit plugin for MESA radar — configure, control and
    visualize radar data inside ATAK. Distributed via the Customer Portal as part of the
    Software & Support package.
  evidence: https://www.echodyne.com/newsroom/echodyne-announces-atak-integration-for-mesa-r-radar-platform
platform_requirements:
  cpu: x86-64, minimum 4-core (VM or bare metal)
  memory: 16 GB RAM
  storage: 256 GB, or 1 TB if recording (SSD or NVMe)
  network: 1 Gbit Ethernet
  operating_systems:
  - Ubuntu LTS 20.04 and 22.04 (native + Docker for US-GOV)
  - Windows 10 and 11 (native client)
  browser: Google Chrome (current stable)
cross_links:
  authentication: authentication/echodyne-authentication.yml
  lifecycle: lifecycle/echodyne-lifecycle.yml
  conformance: conformance/echodyne-conformance.yml
  integrations: integrations/_index.yml