DRONEBOX Introduces the “Internet of Drones”

H3 Dynamics unveiled DRONEBOX, at this week’s Singapore Air Show. In a clever marketing pitch H3 Dynamics is characterizing the product ats a “revolutionary system that converges professional drone-enabled service activities with the Industrial Internet of Things. Welcome to the Internet of Drones.”

DRONEBOX enables operators to deploy sensor laden drones at different locations to measure just about anything, anywhere, anytime. They offer 24/7 reactivity, providing critical information to operators – even those thousands of miles away.

Besides innovating in the world of unattended sensors, DRONEBOX eases the scalability challenges for drone service operators. Such service providers use professional drones to provide their customers with detailed aerial land surveys in mining or agriculture, perform infrastructure inspections, or monitor the progress of construction sites. However, some remote locations need regular or prolonged visits, which increase travel costs and risks to drone service providers. From an end-user perspective, despite providing powerful new insights within an industrial context, the mass-adoption of professional UAVs is slowed by the special skills required to operate them. Conversely, by pre-deploying DRONEBOX systems at the right locations, travel to remote areas is no longer required, charging or handling drone batteries is eliminated, and sensor data is simply sent through a network for easy access and processing.

DRONEBOX is a weather proof container that can charge drone batteries automatically within its shelter system. Off-grid power is provided primarily by a solar-battery installation. For more advanced requirements, system capabilities can be extended using REMOBOX, an accessory that provides more advanced communications and hosts a small back-up fuel cell system for year long availability in mission critical locations. It can be installed anywhere allowing drones to perform pre-programmed scheduled routines, be deployed on demand, or be woken up by other drones or sensors as part of a much wider network of “things”.

According to their release, “The use of mobile sensors hosted in networked DRONEBOXES could revolutionize precision agriculture, border and perimeter security, wildlife protection, critical infrastructure maintenance, telecom tower and wind turbine maintenance, oil & gas asset inspection, building and facilities management, just to name a few.”

H3 Dynamics is a complementary eco-system of hardware and software companies with locations in Singapore, Texas, France and South Africa. The Singapore headquartered group includes a high performance fuel cell energy storage systems entity, an integrated robotics systems entity, as well as an entity dedicated to advanced field communications, precision tracking and real-time analytics software.

You can view a promotional video here.