Drone Autonomous Service Hub

Mission

Our mission is to build the world’s first dedicated infrastructure system for drones.

The challenge

Drones are a mature technology with numerous applications, however we are yet to see them reach the scale of usage of cars or planes. This expansion is severely limited by batteries, which require manual replacement and take long to recharge. The need to replace or recharge drones with human intervention leads to a high downtime between operating cycles and limits the expansion of operations severely. Just like we have highways for trucks, harbors for ships and airports for planes, we believe now is the time to build the world's first dedicated drone infrastructure system.

The solution

We propose a drone servicing hub, capable of replacing the batteries of drones, autonomously. The drones will be retrofitted with a new battery holding system, based on existing electronic systems. The mechanism will be designed to allow the battery to be easily extracted and replaced by a mechanical system on the drone hub. A drone which is running low on energy can simply land, have its battery replaced and take-off with a fully charged one, while the depleted one is being prepared for later reuse.