Compact drone’s upgraded onboard comms system meets the wants of public security teams; corporations showcase tech at Disasters Expo USA in Anaheim
Doodle Labs, a number one datalink supplier for cellular robotics and linked groups, has teamed up with Freefly Techniques Inc., an American company that designs and manufactures the world’s hardest drones, to showcase how their know-how works collectively to serve catastrophe response and different public security teams.
Earlier this yr, Freefly introduced a partnership to combine Doodle Labs’ mesh radios into the Freefly Astro UAS platform. Final week in Anaheim, California, Doodle Labs showcased the Astro at Disasters Expo USA a convention and exhibition for catastrophe preparedness, response, mitigation and restoration specialists.
Astro is Freefly’s newest drone platform with excessive precision RTK/PPK, LTE cloud connectivity, pill controller, good batteries, onboard mission laptop and extra. The platform boasts an open ecosystem of modular payloads with fast launch. Astro is designed, examined, flown, constructed and supported by the Freefly crew in Woodinville, WA.
Doodle Labs, who produce industrial-grade wi-fi networking options, are working with Freefly to supply its Mesh Rider Radio because the onboard datalink for Astro. Integrating Doodle Labs’ radios will safe lengthy vary, high-bandwidth mesh capabilities, a extra dependable connection for the drone and new avenues to international deployment.
The Astro’s useful flexibility, mixed with the long-range, high-bandwidth networking capabilities afforded by the Doodle Labs Mesh Rider Radio, makes it a pure match to satisfy the calls for of world catastrophe response teams for search and rescue missions, terrain mapping and scanning and community extension in troublesome networking environments whereas responding to floods, wildfires and earthquakes.
“We knew that partnering with Freefly meant not solely contributing to the development of highly effective UAV know-how, but additionally supporting the general public security teams who depend on this know-how to securely reply to disasters and save lives,” stated Amol Parikh, VP of Advertising for Doodle Labs.”
“It is a level of satisfaction to have a hand in supporting the important work of catastrophe response teams,” Parikh stated.
Mesh Rider Radio makes use of Doodle Labs’ proprietary multi-band know-how to capably cowl as much as six frequency bands in a single radio. The radios can be found in a wide range of band combos, together with 900 MHz + 2.4 GHz for industrial use-cases, a number of Helix choices in federal combos (M1 – M6, L + S) for protection functions and the potential to mix licensed and unlicensed bands for dual-use purposes.
Growth of the Mesh Rider Radio was sponsored partially by the US Division of Protection’s Protection Innovation Unit (DIU) and the datalink is totally compliant with DIU’s Blue UAS program. Astro can be Blue sUAS Listing-approved. Each Mesh Rider Radio and Astro are NDAA compliant.
For catastrophe response teams, this multi-band know-how allows responders to rapidly and reliably deploy UAVs as a part of response efforts regardless of worldwide laws round frequency allocation or noisy, crowded RF environments.
About Freefly
Freefly Techniques is an American company that designs, manufactures, and markets digicam motion methods and digicam stabilizers utilized in cinematography together with unmanned aerial automobiles for aerial cinematography, gimbals, and remote-controlled automobiles. The corporate headquarters are in Woodinville, Washington.
About Doodle Labs LLC
Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wi-fi networking options. The corporate focuses on mesh networking for robotic methods, offering excessive throughput, long-range Mesh Rider options for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs, linked groups, authorities/protection, non-public wi-fi and different purposes. The corporate’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of alternative.
Doodle Labs was based in 1999 and has workplaces in the US and Singapore. For extra data, go to http://www.doodlelabs.com