Echodyne has announced its latest partnership with Axon.
According to the company, this partnership will be a joint focus activity on delivering infrastructure for a range of homeland security and law enforcement UAS applications in the US and globally.
The partnership
Under the partnership, Echodyne’s advanced radar technology will continue supporting Axon’s growing ecosystem of public safety drone solutions, enhancing low-altitude airspace awareness for authorised drone operations while helping agencies detect and respond to unauthorised or malicious drone activity.
The company explained that there is an increasing demand globally for comprehensive detailed awareness of the low altitude airspace in which drones are proliferating.
Drone as First Responder (DFR) operations can deliver critical information to public safety agency personnel in transit, ensuring swift and well-informed actions upon arrival.
As drones increasingly populate the skies, scaling commercial and DFR operations also requires awareness of rogue and malicious drone use.
Addressing each of these demands depends on accurate data that precisely details airspace activity.
Operating in airspace
Echodyne’s patented MESA radars are designed to deliver the precision airspace awareness needed to support evolving public safety drone operations, including Axon Air and Dedrone solutions from Axon.
As DFR programs continue scaling across the US and globally, the companies are working together to help agencies operate more safely, efficiently and confidently in increasingly complex low-altitude airspace environments.
Echodyne highlighted that the partnership is already safely managing hundreds of DFR operations daily and is actively working on dozens of additional customer deployments.
“The cornerstone of airspace”
Eben Frankenberg, CEO of Echodyne explained: “Radar is the cornerstone of airspace awareness and is especially important for the low altitude drone airspace where remotely piloted and, eventually, semi- and fully-autonomous UAS will operate.
“Our work with Axon is focused on a shared safety mission – delivering innovative solutions for public safety agencies protecting communities and infrastructure,” Frankenberg added.
“The next generation of public safety drone operations”
Eric Hertz, Executive Vice President of Operations at Axon commented: “Public safety agencies are increasingly relying on drones to deliver critical information faster, improve coordination and help protect both responders and the communities they serve.
“As these programs scale, agencies need trusted technologies that help them operate safely and confidently in increasingly complex airspace environments.
“We’re excited to work with Echodyne to support the infrastructure that will help enable the next generation of public safety drone operations,” he concluded.
