RECENT PROJECTS
Our company, with the collaboration of the University of the Aegean, develops a maritime surveillance system, consisting of two Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), for the prevention of piracy on merchant ships, as well as the monitoring of a pirate incident in progress.
ARSx2’s first UAV, called “Phorcys”, is a hexacopter on a Y6 configuration. Equipped with a powerful hybrid EO/IR stabilized camera with object tracking capabilities, humans and items such as guns, canisters, etc. can be identified from a safe distance.
The second small, flexible, and easy to use by non-specialists (ship’s crew) UAV, called “Ceto”, will be used in emergency cases as a “rescue beacon”. It is deployed when a vessel is already or will be occupied by pirates, while real-time position, images or video are transmitted to the patrolling authorities and rescue organizations. In case of hostages, it can be ordered to follow the pirates’ boat.
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