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 at this time that its subsidiary Airobotics has accomplished the acquisition of the property of autonomous counter-drone methods specialist Iron Drone, whose new system will probably be offered March seventh – ninth on the World Police Summit in Dubai.
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Ondas will combine Iron Drone’s counter-drone know-how inside its Ondas Autonomous Techniques enterprise unit. Alongside its Optimus System™, Ondas presents a government-grade drone answer 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 in a position to intercept hostile drones in a variety of environments. The Iron Drone know-how will probably be out there as each a standalone know-how providing and an addition to the Optimus System™ City Drone Infrastructure.
“Iron Drone’s counter-drone know-how is an ideal match for Ondas’ portfolio as it’s a mission-critical system that may be put in to guard delicate property,” mentioned Ondas Chairman and CEO Eric Brock. “The mix of Airobotics with Iron Drone represents a brand new income alternative for Ondas in a market that’s seeing numerous development. Iron Drone’s experience and know-how will probably 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 searching for.”
“We’re shifting quick to deliver the Iron Drone answer to the homeland safety worldwide market,” mentioned Ondas Autonomous Techniques President Meir Kliner. “We now have already been approached by varied potential prospects who’re searching for a dependable, non-weaponized counter-drone answer. The distinctive built-in AI-based Iron Drone answer 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, because of its low collateral signature, it may be operated in areas the place using jamming is prohibited, similar to airports, populated areas, and significant infrastructures. With Iron Drone, our prospects will be capable of neutralize threats whereas using Optimus drones for monitoring, remark, and video surveillance.”
Not too long ago, terrorist and felony parts have been more and more using drones and different small UAS to assault and disrupt strategic amenities, 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 using GPS or RF jamming. The interceptor drone is launched from a delegated pod, flying autonomously in the direction of the targets based mostly 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 reducing it to the bottom. The whole course of is fully-automated and doesn’t require a human pilot.
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