Falcon Eye was designed to change that. Instead of sending ships out to search large areas of ocean, Falcon Eye can identify unusual movements and direct naval assets toward them. RTCom estimates that Falcon Eye has helped save Nigeria about $4 billion since 2015, taking into account reduced insurance costs, oil-theft prevention and the disruption of smuggling and other maritime crimes. That means expanding Falcon Eye into the backwaters would require a denser network of sensors, positioned around waterways, chokepoints and other strategic locations. It is a lesson Falcon Eye was designed to demonstrate at sea.