Drone

Three years after its founding, Rantizo has outgrown its current Iowa City location. Rantizo, an agricultural drone-spraying company, is moving from its 105 Iowa Ave. office to a new facility close to Highway 1 at the southwestern edge of Iowa City. “We’ll have everything under one roof with offices, workshops, …

In a big step forward for cargo drone delivery, CA-based Volansi has received flight approvals to operate beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in Senegal. Africa has long been a leader in drone delivery applications, starting with Zipline’s widescale medical delivery operation in Rwanda.  This latest announcement, however, is different …

THINK would be the first building in a 1.5 million square-foot high-tech campus planned by Chesnut Properties. Lee Chesnut plans to break ground this summer on a retooled South County project that could have 1.5 million square feet of office space geared toward high-tech companies working with automated vehicle research, …

Launched today, TindAIR is a new consortium funded by the European Union ́s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program tasked with working on wide scale demonstrations of urban air mobility applications. TindAIR, which stands for Tactical INstrumental Deconfliction And in flight Resolution, falls under SESAR’s U-Space efforts, developing unmanned traffic management systems …

A close up image of chicks from the ground taken just a few days before the survey (c) Annie Schmidt/Point Blue What one drone can do, multiple drones can do faster.  Scientists have been able to use multiple UAVs, managed by UgCS drone fleet software from SPH Engineering, to survey …

>> IT IS SOUND OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE NEWEST UNIT, THE DRONE UNIT. IT CONSISTS OF EIGHT MEMBERS. >> EVERBODY HAS THEIR FAA PART 107 LICENSE. >> AND TWO OF THE SMALL AIRCRAFT, AT $4000 APIECE. THE TECHNOLOGY HAS DRAWN PRIVACY CONCERNS IN THE PAST. >> THAT’S SOMETHING WE …

Italian technology group Leonardo has teamed up with Rome city council to install an experimental monitoring system combining satellite, drone, artificial intelligence and 5G technology in one of the capital’s largest green spaces. The SES5G system, part of Rome’s smart city project, aims to use innovative technologies to protect …

The FAA Wings program has been around for a long time, helping aviators to improve their flight skills.  The FAA Safety Team (FAAST) also offers free classes that benefit drone operators – an excellent resource for public safety professionals and others to keep learning.  There are classes focused specifically on …

We wrote about DroneUp’s drone delivery of Coke with Coffee to residents in Coffee, GA – but how exactly did that delivery work?  The A2Z  Rapid Delivery System allowed packages to be delivered without landing the drone – a method that solves a lot of problems in drone delivery. CA-based …

March 23, 2021 7:03 PM Elenee Dao Posted: March 23, 2021 7:03 PM HARTLINE, Wash. — It’s a nightmare losing a loved one at night in freezing weather. “This gentleman, I’ve probably known him since I was in diapers,” said Fire Chief Daryl Dormaier, with Grant County Fire District 6. …