Elsight has announced a commercial order has been received and delivered under a ground-breaking and industry accelerating collaboration with DroneUp.
DroneUp has placed a commercial order of Elsight’s “Halo” to support their initial fleet of parcel delivery drones.
DroneUp has utilized Elsight’s “Halo” as the connectivity solution to complete the end-to-end link between the drone, with all the communication technologies, DroneUp field drone hub and DroneUp control-centre.
On June 17th, 2021 John Furner, CEO and President, Walmart U.S. announced Walmart’s large strategic investment in DroneUp. On November 22nd, 2021 DroneUp and Walmart jointly announced their first Multi-Site Commercial Drone Parcel Delivery Operations, and also launched their drone delivery orders website “Delivery on the Fly”.
In 2021 DroneUp was selected to provide a representative to sit on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Aviation Rule Making Committee (ARC) to participate in the development of beyond line-of-sight drone flights. John Vernon, DroneUp’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), will represent DroneUp on the ARC.
Elsight CEO Yoav Amitai commented on DroneUp’s decision to choose Elsight, “This order from DroneUp affirms the validity of our design-win strategy within the drone industry. We are delighted that DroneUp has chosen us to leverage our Halo bonded connectivity solution to ensure absolute connection confidence to their drones for commercial deliveries. Such orders are a great indication for Elsight’s suite of connectivity solutions, and our ability to be a solution provider wherever and whenever businesses need absolute and uncompromised connection confidence.”
