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Army Recognition: Delair & ECA Group join forces to propose new multi drone ground station
Tuesday, November 28 2017
At Milipol 2017 in Paris, ECA Group and Delair unveiled a new multi drone ground control station. This GCS, fullly developed by both these French specialists in civil, defence and security mini-drones, is changing the game for collaborative drone missions.
Published on Army Recognition, November 2017.
In drone-based security missions, the ground control station (GCS), is a decisive element for the operator as its intuitiveness and compatibility with different types of terrain and missions will largely determine the success of a mission.
Via a ground control station running on a ruggedized laptop specifically designed to withstand the harshness of field missions, the operator will plan his mission, pilot the drone and analyze the data from embedded sensors in real time.
Cince 2016, Delair and ECA Group have partnered to co-develop this new generation of ground station (GCS) to operate both of their of the UAV IT180 (mini-drone vertical take-off and landing) and DT26X (mini-drone with fixed wing) ranges.
Fixed-wing UAVs, such as the DT26X, and rotary-wing UAVs, such as the IT180 , are complementary and can therefore be used together on missions :
- To ensure the surveillance of an area
- Intervention in support in case of threat
"Thanks to the new GCS, collaborative drone missions are gaining considerably in performance. This type of mission now becomes easier to manage via a single interface and by a single operator. With the new ground station the intervention forces gain especially in precision of information and intervention reactivity.", says Francis Duruflé, sales manager for Aerial Drones business at ECA Group.
"The new multiplatform ground station will also allow its users to optimize the training of their UAV pilot crews as well as the ability for the same pilot to switch from one drone to another in a very intuitive way. Another important criterion, the logistic constraint of the material to be transported, which will be reduced by using the new GCS.", says Charles-Etienne Gariel, sales director at Delair.
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