Kolibair

Mission

Bringing simple to use, reliable, long-lasting aerial awareness to emergency services.

The challenge

Emergency services, especially fire brigades, often lack fast, reliable aerial awareness that regular crews can deploy and operate with minimal training. Today’s quadcopter drones used in emergencies are often expensive, limiting availability across brigades, and typically fly only 30-45 minutes, forcing frequent, time-consuming battery swaps during critical incident phases. They also struggle to cover larger areas and usually require constant pilot attention, while helicopters are costly and not always available. The result is delays and blind spots in tracking fire spread, locating hotspots, and searching for missing people - so crews sometimes abandon drones when they become impractical.

The solution

We will develop a fixed-wing VTOL drone designed for emergency response: it takes off and lands vertically from any location, then transitions to efficient forward flight for long missions. It will provide continuous thermal and visual video feed via a stabilized camera, giving incident commanders reliable aerial awareness without relying on quadcopters or helicopters. The system will be simple to deploy and operate with mission presets (e.g., orbit, area scan, search pattern) and with strong safety features (return-to-home, geofencing, performance monitoring).