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Iron Drone presents a counter-drone intercepting system that may get rid of small drones with out utilizing GPS or RF jamming. | Source: Ondas Holdings
Airobotics, a subsidiary of Ondas Holdings, introduced that it has accomplished the acquisition of the property of Iron Drone Ltd, an Israeli-based firm that creates autonomous counter-drone techniques. The acquisition grew to become efficient on March 6, 2023.
Iron Drone presents a fully-automated drone intercepting system that may get rid of small drones with out utilizing GPS or RF jamming. Based on preliminary radar steering, the corporate’s interceptor drone is launched from a delegated pod and autonomously flies towards its targets. The drone then locks onto the goal with superior AI imaginative and prescient, follows the goal, incapacitates and captures it utilizing a web and a parachute earlier than it safely lowers it to the bottom.
“Iron Drone’s counter-drone technology is a perfect fit for Ondas’ portfolio as it is a mission-critical system that can be installed to protect sensitive assets,” Eric Brock, Chairman and CEO of Ondas, stated in a launch. “The combination of Airobotics with Iron Drone represents a new revenue opportunity for Ondas in a market that is seeing a lot of growth. Iron Drone’s expertise and technology will be complementary to the Optimus System drone, providing our growing list of customers in the public safety and industrial sectors with the solution they are looking for.”
Iron Drone is Ondas’ first foray into the general public security, homeland safety and protection markets. The firm’s system and Airobotics’ Optimus System collectively supply a government-grade drone system for safety and important infrastructure safety and monitoring.
“We’re moving fast to bring the Iron Drone solution to the homeland security worldwide market,” Meir Kliner, Ondas Autonomous Systems President, stated in a launch. “We have already been approached by various potential customers who are looking for a reliable, non-weaponized counter-drone solution. The unique integrated AI-based Iron Drone solution relies on [the] physical elimination of the target drone. This makes it effective against pre-programmed hostile drones and UAVs which do not rely on [the] operator’s radio-link. Moreover, due to its low collateral signature, it can be operated in areas where the use of jamming is prohibited, such as airports, populated areas, and critical infrastructures. With Iron Drone, our customers will be able to neutralize threats while utilizing Optimus drones for monitoring, observation, and video surveillance.”
Ondas introduced it was buying Airobotics in July 2022, with the purpose of accelerating American Robotics‘, one other Ondas subsidiary, technical growth and regulatory roadmap and increasing the breadth of functions, use circumstances and vertical AR targets.
Airobotics’ Optimus System is an autonomous unmanned plane system that focuses on high-value functions throughout the industrial, homeland safety and sensible metropolis companies market. The system consists of an industrial-grade drone-in-a-box and the Optimus Airbase, which permits for robotic battery and payload swapping.
The Scout System from American Robotics consists of Scout, a fully-autonomous drone, ScoutBase, a weatherproof charging and edge computing station and ScoutView, a fleet administration and analytics software program. Scout is meant for industrial, agricultural, and protection markets.