Drones (or UAVs) have been in use by the military since WW1 (or earlier if you include unmanned balloons) and were primarily used to fly missions that were considered too dangerous for humans.
However, there has been an exponential rise in commercial Drone use over the last 10 years with Drones now being the go to technology to reduce cost and improve safety for the majority of data gathering missions from UHD video capture to Ground Penetrating Radar.
Drones cover all types of autonomous vehicles including: flying, land-based and water-based (floating and submersible) and we are fully capable of integrating sensors across all of these to deliver the Drone to where it needs to be.
We have over 10 years’ experience working with Drones from multiple manufacturers. We have been customising existing Drones to optimise for missions beyond conventional Drone operations, with changes throughout from motors and rotors, wet weather component housing and sensor mounting points. As a result, we now design, build and support our very own range of Kanon UAVs (Drones) to offer our clients complete flexibility and reliability.
We are proud of a number of world firsts including being the first to successfully mount a heavy and power hungry Hyper-Spectral sensor by redesigning the housing and replacing the CPU to reduce power consumption and weight in order to keep below a 25kg regulatory limit.
We understand each operation is unique and will advise on the best Drone for your requirements, considering; regulatory compliance, sensors required, power consumption and flight endurance.
Built with maximum flight time and sensor protection as a core design philosophy.
Our Drones are built to support efficient flight operations in any weather carrying an array of sensors that could be up to £1M in value.
Fly with confidence even after the failure of a motor, rotor, battery or flight controller, Not only will our Drones continue to fly they will even complete the mission before returning safely back to base with all sensors and captured data intact.
Our Kanon range (K1 – K5) is our Multirotor, Quad Coaxial UAV range, for flights that require a higher degree of flexibility and hover stability than a fixed wing aircraft can provide.
Our Staerk range S1- S3 is our VTOL Fixed wing range for long range endurance flights.