Eyes in the Sky: Aeryon Fortunes Set to Soar Thanks to Scout’s Ease-of-Use

Friday, July 22, 2011

[Source: Communitech by Anthony Reinhart]

It was an unusually frank confession from a police officer, and probably the best product advice Dave Kroetsch and his partners could have received.

“That’s cool,” the cop said of the concept behind Aeryon Labs’ flying surveillance robot, “but we’re not that bright, we’ve got fat fingers and we break things.”

Kroetsch and company heard the officer loud and clear. As a result, when their Aeryon Scout flew off the drawing board and into the sky in 2009, it quickly gained market altitude as its capabilities became known throughout military, law enforcement and commercial circles.

“We’re very much leading the market in our space,” Kroetsch, Aeryon’s President and CEO, said just days before Ernst & Young named the company as a 2011 finalist for its Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards. Days earlier, a CNN reporter had demonstrated of the ease of flying the Scout for a story on unmanned drones.

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