Airobotics Acquires Iron Drone Property, Launches New Counter-Drone System at World Police Summit
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by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby
Ondas Holdings introduced as we speak that its subsidiary Airobotics has accomplished the acquisition of the belongings of autonomous counter-drone methods specialist Iron Drone, whose new system will likely be introduced 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 affords a government-grade drone answer for safety and significant infrastructure safety and monitoring.
This transaction supplies Ondas with a brand new income alternative because it enters the rising public security, homeland safety, and protection markets. Collectively, the businesses will provide clients an built-in safety platform capable of intercept hostile drones in a spread of environments. The Iron Drone know-how will likely be obtainable 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 belongings,” mentioned 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 lots of progress. Iron Drone’s experience and know-how 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 on the lookout for.”
“We’re transferring quick to deliver the Iron Drone answer to the homeland safety worldwide market,” mentioned Ondas Autonomous Techniques President Meir Kliner. “We have now already been approached by varied potential clients who’re on the lookout 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 towards 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 using jamming is prohibited, equivalent to airports, populated areas, and significant infrastructures. With Iron Drone, our clients will have the ability to neutralize threats whereas using Optimus drones for monitoring, remark, and video surveillance.”
Just lately, terrorist and felony parts 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 belongings towards 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 chosen pod, flying autonomously in direction of the targets based mostly on preliminary radar steerage, then locking on to them utilizing superior AI imaginative and prescient. The drone pursues the goal to incapacitate and seize it with a internet and a parachute, safely reducing it to the bottom. The complete course of is fully-automated and doesn’t require a human pilot.
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