Uruguay's Ministry of the Interior (MOI) has launched a citywide autonomous drone program in Montevideo, built on FlytBase's platform and deployed in partnership with Uruguayan technology firm Timerix S.A. The program connects to alerts from ShotSpotter, the city’s already-existing gunshot detection system, giving police a live aerial view of an incident before officers arrive on scene.

Montevideo has operated ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology since 2023. The new deployment connects those alerts directly to an automated drone response, with FlytBase coordinating flights across a network of docking stations and streaming video to a central command center within minutes. According to FlytBase, Uruguay is the first country to build a drone-as-first-responder program on top of an existing ShotSpotter network, and one of the first in Latin America to integrate detection with automated drone dispatch at this scale.

FlytBase handles all drone operations for the program. The platform supports on-premise, private cloud, and sovereign cloud deployment, giving the MOI full control over where sensitive operational data is stored. The company holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR certifications.

Timerix S.A.'s Federico De Hoyos called drone-as-first-response "the present," noting that the ability to deploy drones in seconds and assess situations in real time represents a meaningful shift for how security forces operate. FlytBase founder and CEO Nitin Gupta described the program as providing a complete operational picture, from the triggering event to drone dispatch to ground-level awareness.

The Ministry of the Interior has indicated it intends to use the Montevideo deployment as a model for public safety agencies across the region.