Unmanned Aerial Systems and Drones (UAVs)

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Area X.O, in partnership with InDro Robotics, allows the design and implementation of UAVs test, projects, and use cases on 1,866-acres that’s private and gated.

Our facility offers:

  • One of the most advanced communication test infrastructures in the world with many GPS (RTK) systems, Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC), 4G / LTE, WiFi, LoRa and pre-commercial 5G (including mmWave) from Nokia and Ericsson, and satellite communications systems
  • Band 14, spectrum that’s reserved for first responders; this enables a host of public safety….
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Emergencies

  • Search for missing persons with thermal cameras and a fleet of drones
  • Deliver first aid kit and medical gear
  • Map and route guidance after earthquakes and floods 
  • Provide situational awareness for police and other responders
  • Preplan data and EOC over watch

Extinguishing

  • Video streaming improves the situational awareness and supports resource planning, risk evaluation and decision making
  • Sensors and analytics can warn about hazardous gas
  • Edge analytics can map at risk areas, smoke and gas plumes and assist in set back and evacuation areas and routes.

Prevention

  • Find fire points in forests/dry areas to prevent a larger fire
  • Monitor fire in cities
  • Detect hot spots
  • Break monitor floods and fire
  • Conduct digital elevation modeling for rapid risk assessment and modeling
  • Do pre and post mapping of disasters to direct rescue and provide lessons learned

Street and Border Safety

  • Police drones patrolling at-risk areas
  • Crowd behaviour monitoring and analysis
  • Border inspection
  • Inspection of closed or industrial areas
  • Gunshot listening and alert
  • Accident reconstruction and reporting
  • On scene situational awareness feed to operators on the ground over connected feed

Surveillance and Inspection

  • Road inspections
  • Railroad surveillance
  • Harbor management
  • Shore line inspection
  • Traffic mapping
  • City planning use
  • Pattern of life analysis 

Sensing the Air

  • Monitoring of air pollution through scheduled flights with sensors
  • Meteorological measurements
  • Gas detection
  • Pipe and other static infrastructure inspection for fugitive emissions
  • Cloud and plume mapping

Water Quality

  • Analysis of water colour 
  • Detection of oil leakages
  • Monitoring of vegetation 
  • Habitat health and temporal change monitoring and reporting
  • Hyper/Multi spectral analysis of vegetative health
  • Precision monitoring and fish counting 

Event Management

  • Live video streaming
  • Controlling borders of event, detection of movements
  • Event analytics (counting people, most crowded places)
  • Route finding and planning for choke and traffic points
  • Asset tracking and allocation of responders at appropriate points in space and time
The place to harness potential

“InDro Robotics is the leading Canadian expert in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Drone technology. Our UAV expertise enables us to operate in unprecedented ways, use commercial UAVs to monitor and collect data, and provide a wide range of services to industries, including fire and rescue. We have accumulated thousands of flight hours and are proud to collaborate with leading bodies such as Transport Canada, Canadian Space Agency, NASA, and now Area X.O. We look forward to working with Invest Ottawa and the many firms they serve to harness the potential of UAVs to better our society.”

Philip Reece, CEO, InDro Robotics

“We’re proud to be part of the important research and technology development being conducted at Area X.O. Our IRIS UxS ground control station for unmanned systems was created to help safely operate drones and autonomous vehicles beyond visual line-of-sight. Area X.O is working with first responders to help effectively integrate unmanned systems into a variety of emergency operations, including search and rescue.”

Ranald McGillis, President, Kongsberg Geospatial

The place to harness potential

“Area X.O is providing us with an invaluable and convenient location for prototyping novel unmanned aircraft and it is creating great opportunities to network with other companies participating in the development of this industry with huge global potential.”

Anthony Pizarro, President, Romaeris Corporation

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