Persistent Aerial Surveillance

Elistair’s  tethered drone solutions are critical asset for security operations. The continuous and global aerial view enables long, risk-free and efficient surveillance for both night and day use.

Using tethered drones as virtual ‘Surveillance Towers’ is a simple and efficient solution for semi-persistent applications, with a serious cost advantage over helicopters or manned aircraft.  Tethered UAVs can be deployed for long-term operations in order to cover a large area for several hours.  Compact, lightweight and quick to deploy for a single operator, tethered UAVs make little noise from a high position, ensuring discreet surveillance.

Elistair’s tethered systems are best suited for police forces, public safety operations, firefighting, crisis monitoring or military operations.

Industrial Maintenance

Remote inspections of industrial structures and facilities are often costly, hazardous and sometimes impossible to achieve.  While the fast growth of unmanned systems soutions is offering an answer, free-flying drones are still limited to a fraction of their potential in industrial maintenance, because of their limited flight time and their low safety level.

Elistair tethering solutions dramatically increase the safety of drone operations through a reliable power supply and secured communications.  Immune to interference and scrambling, battery failures and fly-aways, our systems allow safe and efficient commercial inspections, in a variety of demanding industrial environments as airports, wind farms or refineries.

Operating in a volume of operation mastered by the micro-tether, industrial companies and drone operators now beneficiate from a full-control on their flights, facilitating the maintenance and the protection of their assets.

Telecommunications

Tethered UAVs are powerful tools for telecommunications, acting as airborne antennas.  They enable the creation of temporary, wide-range networks: cellular, wifi, high-frequency radio and 3G/4G signals.

Thanks to their high-speed data transfer, our tethered systems are particularly suited for pop-up telecommunications.

They have many applications, such as emergency situations, crisis monitoring, firefighting, large events coverage and humanitarian missions.

Continuous Aerial Broadcasting

Perfectly suited for sports broadcasting, Elistair tethered systems provide a rich aerial perspective to live filming. Tethered UAVs can revolutionise the entertainment industry by allowing unlimited aerial coverage with high quality aerial live shots, and the best safety standards.

Tethered UAVs are key assets for increasing your audience through immersive aerial filming on large outdoor events like concerts and sports competitions.  By offering a safer and unlimited aerial video-stream to producers, Elistair’s systems bring innovative and visually rich aerial perspectives to live productions.

Traffic Monitoring

Due to an increasing number of vehicles on roadways, better traffic management and planning have become imperative.

Elistair’s tethered solutions offer continuous and real-time aerial video-stream, allowing persistant data collection and analysis.  A tethered drone is a compact tool, easy to transport and deploy, that gives access to various valuable traffic data (trajectories, behaviors, vehicle types etc…), which are crucial information for individual end user (drivers), networks and transport operators or public authorities, to answer mobility challenges.

Count, measure and analyse in order to understand road-user behaviour, analyse trajectories and detect anomalies. With the deployment of a single UAV during several hours, continuously, get a more comprehensive look at traffic nodes.

Air Quality Monitoring

Monitoring air quality and pollution is crucial to understand our cities and industries, and to prevent public health incidents.  Elistair’s tethered systems allow for simple and reliable data collection in three dimensions.

Elistair’s tethering stations provide unlimited access to remote locations and hazardous areas at a low cost.  Employing advance technology, drones can easily collect samples of compounds such as:

• Volatile Organic Compounds
• Ozone
• Sulphur Dioxide
• Nitrogen Dioxide

The high-speed data transfer made possible by the micro-tether, allows for real-time data collection and analysis in a fast and secure way.

Some other applications:

Meteorological measurements

Continuous gas sensing

Energy & Utility industries monitoring

Chemical industries monitoring

Particulate matter measurement

Integrated gaseous sampling

Thunderstorm and tornado monitoring

Biological & Nuclear threats identification