Aeryon and ING Engineering participate in Exercise Spartan Bear
Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Waterloo, ON - Aeryon Labs, manufacturer of the Aeryon Scout and ING Engineering are pleased to announce that ING is now a fully trained operator, trainer and reseller of the Aeryon Scout. Under this agreement, ING Engineering will leverage their 30,000+ hours of UAV flight-time and vast experience in supporting the Canadian Armed forces to offer the Aeryon Scout and Scout services into a variety of markets including military, law enforcement and inspection services.
The Scout identified two civilians entering an unmarked vehicle with its VideoZoom10X payload.
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ING and Aeryon were pilots and operators of the Aeryon Scout, a small, lightweight Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is remote-controlled from the ground by computer. The Scout was used as a key reconnaissance tool for soldiers as they were lead into potential dangerous situations. The Scout was able to identify enemies amongst civilians and locate obstacles on the road, alerting soldiers of potential dangers as they entered new areas.
The Aeryon Scout system was carried by a single operator in one backpack and successfully completed 7 missions throughout the first day of the exercise. Despite extreme winds of up to 80 km/hr and heavily forested areas, the Scout safely returned unharmed after each mission. The missions had the Scout operated at long ranges, ensuring the team was out of danger while the Scout performed its reconnaissance duties. To provide the best possible real-time imagery, the Scout flew with its VideoZoom10X payload which features a 10 times optical zoom.
“The Scout’s ability to be launched in minimal time to intelligence queuing and to handle the high winds we encountered was amazing.” commented Pat Brophy, director of UAV Services for ING Engineering. “The troops were quick to adopt the technology and were eager to tell us to ‘Launch the bug!’ so they could see what they might be marching into.” Brophy was in the field at SPARTAN BEAR supporting the exercise.
The Aeryon Scout and Scout related services are available immediately from ING Engineering.
The Scout identified road obstacles and changing landscape conditions for the troops.
About Aeryon Labs Inc. – www.aeryon.com
Aeryon Labs provides robotic solutions to real-world problems through the design and manufacture of best-in-class small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and related systems. Its flagship product, the Scout, allows police, military and civil users to easily collect real-time aerial intelligence, with a system small enough to fit in a backpack or car trunk. With expertise in robotics, control systems, and digital imaging, the Aeryon team develops state-of-the-art products while remaining focused on end-user ease of use. Aeryon Labs was recently named one of Canada’s Top 25 ICT Up and Comers in the Branham Group300 ranking of Canadian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies.
About ING Engineering – www.ingengineering.com
ING Engineering was founded in 2000 by Ian Glenn with the purpose of delivering Unmanned Systems and Robotics in the field of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) to the public and the private sector. With over 500 years of combined expert experience in unmanned systems design and implementation ING Engineering is Canada’s robotic aviation company. The company operates unmanned systems around the clock on a global scale; in the last three years, ING engineering has accumulated over 30,000 flight hours with the ScanEagle UAV in support of Canada’s armed forces. ING Engineering also provides UVS solutions and services for other UAVs such as the Scout, Serenity, and the Maveric.
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