Elios

PROTECTIVE FRAME

COLLISION-TOLERANCE. A REVOLUTIONARY NEW WAY OF FLYING.

Carrying its own protective frame, Elios is collision-tolerant. This means you can access the tightest spaces without any risk of crashing. No need to focus on avoiding obstacles, Elios bounces off and roll on them to find its way. You can fly close or even in direct contact with humans without any risks of injuries.

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DECOUPLING IS KEY.

The protective frame of Elios is no ordinary one. It is decoupled on three axes from the inner frame – the drone – using a gimbal mechanism. This ingenious decoupling mechanism is what allows Elios to remain stable in the event of a collision.

UNIQUE.

Patented by Flyability, the protective frame is a unique and pragmatic approach to flying indoors, in complex and confined spaces and in contact with people. Discarding the need to sense and avoid obstacles, you can start inspecting and exploring – without waiting – the hardest places to reach.

RIGHT SIZED.

LIGHT AND ROBUST.

Elios’ protective frame is made up of carbon fiber covered with a soft coating. It can sustain collisions, evenly, all around the drone at a speed reaching up to 4 m/s.

Built with modular subcomponents it eases the maintenance process and offers openings large enough to fit one’s hand and access the battery container or SD card compartments.

Spherical, the protective frame comes in one size only. With a diameter just below 400 mm, it is slightly smaller than the smallest standard manhole.

PAYLOAD

DESIGNED FOR THE PROFESSIONALS.

Elios embeds a full HD camera, a thermal camera, and an on-board LED lighting system with a remotely adjustable intensity. Once you have reached the most inaccessible places, you have all the tools onboard to take the best possible shot in nearly any lighting conditions.

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FULL HD CAMERA.

When flying in contact with a surface, Elios can gather close-up images with a sub-millimeter resolution of 0.2 mm/px.

The camera video stream is recorded on board, on an SD card housed in the payload head. It is also streamed to the pilot at a lower resolution.

The Full HD camera offers a resolution of 1920 x 1080 at 30 frames per second and performs well in low light.

Automatically corrected by default, the Exposure Value (EV) of the captured images can also be remotely adjusted, from the ground station

THERMAL CAMERA.

Seeing beyond what a human can see may be crucial in many cases. Detecting a crack that is invisible can help to anticipate potential major degradations. Detecting a body in very poor lighting conditions can simply save lives.

A FLEXIBLE VISION.

SEE ABOVE AND BELOW.

Mounted on a rotatable head the cameras can capture images looking above and below the drone. The full HD camera offers a total field of view of 215º and a horizontal field of view of 130º while the thermal camera offers a total vertical field of view of 42º and a horizontal field of view of 56º.

ON-BOARD LIGHTING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT.

When inspecting and exploring pitch dark environments the onboard LED lighting system becomes very useful. Preventing the need for any additional external lighting, it lights up the scene in all the directions you may be looking.

The intensity of the 5 arrays of high-efficiency LEDs providing even lighting in front, top, and bottom of the robot, can be adjusted remotely using the ground station.

When changing the pitch angle of the camera head, the light beam is adapted, always providing the right lighting.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

ROBUSTNESS AND PERFORMANCE.

Elios is equipped with a cutting-edge wireless communication system that provides a live video feedback allowing the pilot to bring the drone to the most inaccessible places up to multiple hundreds of meters beyond line of sight.

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WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.

STANDING THE NEEDS OF REMOTE INSPECTION AND EXPLORATION.

A wireless communication standing the needs of indoor inspection and exploration The wireless communication system offers a robust digital, bidirectional, long range signal transmission which includes a video and data downlink – from the UAV to the Ground Station – and command uplink – from the Ground Station to the UAV. Thanks to our partnership with DJI, we have integrated the Lightbridge 2 to our drone and can rely on state of the art transmission technology.

Using the 2.4 GHz frequency band, the wireless communication system does not require any special authorization to operate and preserve its high-quality even in the most complex and confined spaces. For example, it is possible to fly Elios over 100 meters above the ground in a closed boiler with the pilot safely standing outside next the entrance manhole.

Since every use case has its own specificities, we have put together a table representing standard use cases and the signal coverage to expect.

Over 150 m in a chimney while staying at the base.

Tens of meters away in a metallic ballast tank multiple compartments away.

Over 150 m in tunnels comprising small curves.

Multiple rooms away in a standard building, up a flight of stairs.

GROUND STATION

EFFICIENTLY PILOT FROM A SAFE PLACE.

Elios Ground Station is composed of a remote controller, a tablet and a purpose designed ground control application providing the pilot with live telemetry data, an SD live video stream captured by Elios, and the information and controls that you need to operate it efficiently and safely.

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USABILITY

BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD. ADAPTED TO YOUR BUSINESS.

As it applies to all new technologies, integrating drones into your workflow requires driving changes. However, it is important that these changes have a minimal impact on your own schedule and comply with the singular aspects of your profession.

We made Elios dust and splash resistant, operational in environments between 0° and 50°C, and mistake tolerant so that it can be easily piloted by everyone. Operational after a few hours of training, your personnel will quickly get up to speed with their piloting skills. Designed to fly indoors where few or no drone regulations apply, Elios will be smoothly integrated into your workflow.

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Photo credit to RIMS

DATA

MAKING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR FLIGHT TIME.

Once you’re done flying, you can exploit the data recorded on the SD card, embedded on Elios, right away. No post processing or specific software is required. To avoid hurdles, we are using simple video files that can be read i.e. on the tablet of the Ground Station. Flight data, thermal video and selected Points Of Interest (POI) are recorded on a dedicated SD card. By using Flyability Inspector, you can correlate flight data and POIs with both video streams.

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INSPECT&EXPLORE
INDOORS AND CONFINED SPACES

Collision-Tolerant

400’000’000 YEARS OF EVOLUTION SOLVING INDOOR FLIGHT CHALLENGES

BENEFITS

CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME

IMPROVE SAFETY

REDUCE DOWNTIME

LOWER COST

FEATURES

PROTECTIVE FRAME

COLLISION-TOLERANCE. A REVOLUTIONARY NEW WAY OF FLYING.

DECOUPLING IS KEY.

UNIQUE.

RIGHT SIZED.

LIGHT AND ROBUST.

PAYLOAD

DESIGNED FOR THE PROFESSIONALS.

FULL HD CAMERA.

THERMAL CAMERA.

A FLEXIBLE VISION.

SEE ABOVE AND BELOW.

ON-BOARD LIGHTING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

ROBUSTNESS AND PERFORMANCE.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.

STANDING THE NEEDS OF REMOTE INSPECTION AND EXPLORATION.

GROUND STATION

EFFICIENTLY PILOT FROM A SAFE PLACE.

COCKPIT.

USABILITY

BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD. ADAPTED TO YOUR BUSINESS.

BATTERY LIFE.

MULTIPLE 10 MINUTES SLOTS TO CAPTURE ALL THE DETAILS.

DATA

MAKING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR FLIGHT TIME.

FLYABILITY INSPECTOR.

POST-FLIGHT VIDEO, THERMAL AND LOG ANALYSIS.

ELIOS

INSPECT&EXPLOREINDOORS AND CONFINED SPACES

Collision-Tolerant

400’000’000 YEARS OF EVOLUTION SOLVING INDOOR FLIGHT CHALLENGES

BENEFITS

CHANGING THE RULES OF THE GAME

IMPROVE SAFETY

REDUCE DOWNTIME

LOWER COST

FEATURES

PROTECTIVE FRAME

COLLISION-TOLERANCE. A REVOLUTIONARY NEW WAY OF FLYING.

DECOUPLING IS KEY.

UNIQUE.

RIGHT SIZED.

LIGHT AND ROBUST.

PAYLOAD

DESIGNED FOR THE PROFESSIONALS.

FULL HD CAMERA.

THERMAL CAMERA.

A FLEXIBLE VISION.

SEE ABOVE AND BELOW.

ON-BOARD LIGHTING.

LET THERE BE LIGHT.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION

ROBUSTNESS AND PERFORMANCE.

WIRELESS COMMUNICATION.

STANDING THE NEEDS OF REMOTE INSPECTION AND EXPLORATION.

GROUND STATION

EFFICIENTLY PILOT FROM A SAFE PLACE.

COCKPIT.

USABILITY

BUILT FOR THE REAL WORLD. ADAPTED TO YOUR BUSINESS.

BATTERY LIFE.

MULTIPLE 10 MINUTES SLOTS TO CAPTURE ALL THE DETAILS.

DATA

MAKING THE BEST OUT OF YOUR FLIGHT TIME.

FLYABILITY INSPECTOR.

POST-FLIGHT VIDEO, THERMAL AND LOG ANALYSIS.

INSPECT&EXPLORE
INDOORS AND CONFINED SPACES