Airobotics Acquires Iron Drone Property, Launches New Counter-Drone System at World Police Summit
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by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian M. Crosby
Ondas Holdings introduced as we speak that its subsidiary Airobotics has accomplished the acquisition of the property of autonomous counter-drone programs specialist Iron Drone, whose new system will likely be offered March seventh – ninth on the World Police Summit in Dubai.
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Ondas will combine Iron Drone’s counter-drone expertise inside its Ondas Autonomous Methods enterprise unit. Alongside its Optimus System™, Ondas affords a government-grade drone resolution for safety and significant infrastructure safety and monitoring.
This transaction gives Ondas with a brand new income alternative because it enters the rising public security, homeland safety, and protection markets. Collectively, the businesses will provide prospects an built-in safety platform capable of intercept hostile drones in a spread of environments. The Iron Drone expertise will likely be out there as each a standalone expertise providing and an addition to the Optimus System™ City Drone Infrastructure.
“Iron Drone’s counter-drone expertise is an ideal match for Ondas’ portfolio as it’s a mission-critical system that may be put in to guard delicate property,” stated Ondas Chairman and CEO Eric Brock. “The mixture of Airobotics with Iron Drone represents a brand new income alternative for Ondas in a market that’s seeing a whole lot of development. Iron Drone’s experience and expertise will likely be complementary to the Optimus System drone, offering our rising checklist of consumers within the public security and industrial sectors with the answer they’re in search of.”
“We’re transferring quick to convey the Iron Drone resolution to the homeland safety worldwide market,” stated Ondas Autonomous Methods President Meir Kliner. “We have now already been approached by varied potential prospects who’re in search of a dependable, non-weaponized counter-drone resolution. The distinctive built-in AI-based Iron Drone resolution depends on bodily elimination of the goal drone. This makes it efficient in opposition to pre-programmed hostile drones and UAVs which don’t depend on operators radio-link. Furthermore, attributable to its low collateral signature, it may be operated in areas the place the usage of jamming is prohibited, similar to airports, populated areas, and significant infrastructures. With Iron Drone, our prospects will be capable to neutralize threats whereas using Optimus drones for monitoring, commentary, and video surveillance.”
Just lately, terrorist and legal components have been more and more using drones and different small UAS to assault and disrupt strategic services, main occasions and metropolis facilities. Designed to defend property in opposition to hostile drones and UAVs, the Iron Drone system is a fully-automated intercepting system able to eliminating small drones with out the usage of GPS or RF jamming. The interceptor drone is launched from a delegated pod, flying autonomously in direction of the targets primarily based on preliminary radar steering, then locking on to them utilizing superior AI imaginative and prescient. The drone pursues the goal to incapacitate and seize it with a web and a parachute, safely decreasing it to the bottom. Your entire course of is fully-automated and doesn’t require a human pilot.
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