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Autonomous drones
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Autonomous drones
Most of infrastructures inspective or surveillance activities are repetitive, dangerous, expensive and time consuming
Most of these tasks could be easily automated
Archon’s mission is to
robotize inefficient, repetitive, dangerous, costly operations
currently performed by humans
using fully autonomous land and air drones
1. Archon has proprietary software solutions enabling full operations control
Planning & Coordination
Secure Cloud
Virtual Reality Control Room
PCT Patent requestedUS16/39055 (June 2016)
Patent under development
1. A unique and proprietary Artificial Intelligence engine
Simulation engine Optimization engine(strategical level)
Optimization engine(tactical level)
2. Archon has proprietary recharging technologies:Plug-in Wheels and Recharging station
Plug-in Wheels Recharging Station
PCT Patent requestedUS16/26152 (April 2016)
PCT Patent requestedUS17/19032 (February 2017)
Current Stage: working prototypes moving from Lab to Market
Landing-Docking Plug-in
Docking Recharge Station
• Landing plugin that can be attached to any drone in principle (DJI, 3DR..)
• Motorized ground propulsion: active wheels• Patent pending in USA, EU, China, Mexico, India, Brasil
• Recharge time equivalent to standard AC line (~30min).
• Customizable to host drones and rovers of different sizes and payload.
The platform offers the possibility of using multi-robots & IoT solutions, including developed by third parties
Powerful IoT Datacenter• Cloud infrastructure made available remotely and on premises,
flexibly support with computing power also other IOT platform.• Can be used to run predictive maintenance or other heavy-duty
Multi-robots solutions within the same platform
Robotics solutions are equipped with resilience technology, featuring auto-routing, dynamic replanning, obstacle avoidance, dual GPS & Indoor Slam
QuadcopterShort range (5 Km)
RoverStructured
environments and Indoor
QuadplaneLong range (30 Km)
Drone Commercial applications:Archon is focusing on Energy and Construction industries
Source: PwC “Clarity from the above” 2015
Energy
Solar plants, Hydropower plants, Power Grids
Global Potential Addressable Market Commercial Drones
Infrastructure(SAM)
45 Bln $
127 Bln $
Global Potential Addressable Market
Commercial Drones(TAM)
• Estimation of total potential market at current value of labor and business activities • Total Target
Addressable Market for Infrastructure includes Energy and Construction
Solar plants Power Grids Power Plants
Robotics applications in the energy production and construction industry, retrofitting or at facility construction time
• Predictive maintenance• Corrective maintenance• Thermal scanning• 4K visual inspection• Surveillance• Indoor/outdoor inspections• Alarm verification• Crisis management• Detection of trespassing/vandalism• Detection of defects and leakages
through chemical sensors• Aggregates volume measurements
Solar plants
Coal Plants
Large Construction Zones
• Aerial surveys• 3D model generation• construction progress
management• logistics operation assistance• forensic scenario
reconstruction for insurance/investigations
• compliance verification• IT cloud backup local
infrastructure support• IOT data fusion
Example of our current clients
Global utility, EUR 71bn revenues
Utility, EUR 6bn revenues
Water distribution utility, EUR 300mn revenues
Telecom operator, 4.5bn EUR revenues
Enel Coal Plant in Civitavecchia (Roma)
300x boost in frequency of inspections will save 2-6% in O&M costs
• Security• Toxic gas monitoring• Environmental Protection• Thermal inspections
Archon Task is to collect data on-demand 24/7 fast, safely, consistently, accurately – then provide infrastructure for analytics
Powerful IoT Datacenter• Cloud infrastructure made available remotely and on premises,
flexibly support with computing power also other IOT platform.• Can be used to run predictive maintenance or other heavy-duty
Inspection of cracks in walls (indoor and outdoor) of dams
• Indoor/outdoor inspectionsrequiring monitoring (e.g. checking the cracks and the basin)
• POC of semi-autonomous inspection completed
• Savings in O&M related to reduced labour time, no need for installation and reduced labour operations
Note: Including also those developed by our partner firm Laser Navigation
Volume computation of aggregates in quarries
• Frequent and accurate topographic measurements of volumes of aggregates• POC of semi-autonomous volumetric analysis completed• Savings related to reduced labour time and reduced labour operations
Note: Including also those developed by our partner firm Laser Navigation
Inspection of burners in coal power plants (indoor, poor communication, toxic environment)
• Indoor inspection causing weeks of labour and downtime/year
• POC of semi-autonomous inspection completed
• Savings in O&M related to reduced labour time, no need for installation and lower downtime
Full-service (thermal inspection and video-surveillance) of solar power plants
• Outdoor solar panels inspection with thermal cameras and alarm verification• One pilot developed partnering with an O&M company
Pilot project with fully autonomous drones:Enel Green Power in Sicily and Chile solar plants
Recurrent random patrols (video-surveillance)
Thermal/visual inspection of any panel at high
resolution
On-demand video/thermal monitoring of the site (e.g. alarm
verification)
The drones will perform:
Higher efficiency compared to actual solutions (2-3% more) and savings in O&M related to reduced human interventions for verifications and surveillance activities
Archon is developing long range technology (Quadplane) to completely automate power grid and pipeline inspections
• Dual mode of operations: single/specific point inspection; channel/pipe inspections
• Auto-takeoff / landing / docking taking 5-10 minutes• Re-charging taking up to 20/30 minutes• Robust fault-tolerant scheduling of inspections with
battery constraints and predictions• Use of pre-registered mission for quality control, anti-
collision, reliability• Image analysis (via machine learning) for defects or
leakages recognition
Inspection in quad-rotor mode
Fast automatic return to base in plane-mod (or travel to another base!)
Archon has offices in Milan and San Francisco
o NASA / USRA, Scientist & Science Operations Manager
o Ph.D. in Physics & Simulations, AI and Optimization, 20+ publications, 200+ citations
o Singularity University, GSP
CEO, StrategyDavide Venturelli
o Sistema Solare Private Equity, cofounder
o Mediobanca UK, Director, Emerging Markets
o JPMorgan, Associate, Emerging Markets
o Pirelli Telecom, Project Manager
o Columbia Business School, MBA
o Singularity University, EP
President, AdminDavide Ghezzi
o Laser Navigation, Owner. 20+ years experience in drone development, robotics, mechatronics, security, 10+ engineers
o APMcopter, Founder, programmer
o Italian Federation Aircraft Pilot in Remote President
CTORoberto Navoni
o ETT AR/VR Creative Director
o Mixed reality architect Neurograph
o Founder UBICAo M. Sc. University of
Genova in Oceanographyo International Auggie VR
Award 2014
UX/UI
o Co-Founder Pandigital, leading cybersecurity consulting
o 4 years at Ferrari communication software
o Web developer and Android/IOS developer at Panini and 4Ward consulting
Software EngineeringDaniele StanzaniGiovanni Landi
o Mario App, Managing Director
o Uber, Operations Manager / Supply Growth
o Bain & Company, Consultant
o General Electric, Associate Financial Analyst
o Ph.D. in Business Bologna University
Business DevelopmentFrancesco Castellano
They gained experience working for, among others:
Davide [email protected]
26%
35%8%
31%
Archon is looking for 3.0€ million investment to support its developments for 2018-19
R&D
Business Development
Staff 3.0 € Million mainly to boost:
- Business Development- R&D activities: Software, Hardware (quad plane, New
recharging station for long range)
General & Administrative
Note: Not included production costs
Improvements on Quad-PlaneNew industrialized
Recharging Station
AI robustnessimprovements
APPENDIX: VIRTUAL REALITY ADD-ONS
Davide [email protected]
