Industries
ePropelled systems and solutions are deployed across a broad and rapidly expanding set of applications, use cases, and vertical industries: commercial, agricultural, public safety, and military.
Defense
ePropelled’s entire selection of products and solutions contain the unique attributes that make them highly suitable and sought after for military and defense applications worldwide. In the most demanding uses, ePropelled systems enable mission success and agility – via high thermal tolerance, low weight, high thrust, and energy efficiency.
ePropelled’s defense and military customers gain mission agility across their platforms thanks to ePropelled’s pre-integrated motors, controllers, generators, and hybrid power solutions. ePropelled’s patented technologies reduce energy consumption and improve performance, providing best-in-class thrust-to-weight ratios and unparalleled reliability. ePropelled’s Sparrow motors and controllers, for example, deliver compact, lightweight, and highly efficient motor solutions that ensure enhanced thrust efficiency, longer flight ranges, and reduced operational costs.
Critically, the ePropelled Sparrow Series elevates the performance of UAVs and drones where China-made commodity motors are being swapped out globally. Sparrow systems provide top-tier, USA-made propulsion solutions with unmatched efficiency and long life. ePropelled’s systems comply with rapidly shifting US trade requirements, such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The high-power Falcon Series of motors and controllers delivers an exceptional blend of control, management, and smart features, setting a new standard for powerful while agile UAV propulsion. That’s essential for defense and military OEMs, because China’s own regulators recently restricted Chinese manufacturers from exporting high-power UAV propulsion components exceeding 16kW.
This development, along with escalating restrictions by the US government on using Chinese-made drone devices, creates a critical need for high-power and non-China supplied alternatives like ePropelled’s Falcon series in the global drone propulsion and platforms market.
UAVs in military and defense applications are increasingly exploiting more than one kind of motor on each drone for a variety of impactful reasons. That’s where innovative ePropelled hybrid-ready Hercules integrated electric generation, power management, and systems come into play. By extending range and mission agility for UAVs, integrated technologies that support hybrid are designed to operate smoothly and quietly, unlike many competing motors and generators. They are therefore ideal for missions where stealth is critical.
ePropelled’s 67 patents in 17 families reflect the ongoing commitment to pioneering integrated solutions that improve and advance the capabilities of electric propulsion systems. ePropelled continues to build new product designs and welcomes customized designs and joint engineering engagements with defense contractors to meet the demanding requirements of these designers.
ePropelled has a proven and demonstrated record of serving military and defense customers worldwide by ensuring reliable, efficient, and data-sharing electric and hybrid propulsion systems for all manner of uncrewed vehicles for air, land, and sea uses – from large-payload aerial drones, for long-range defense applications, as well as for small surveillance and commercial drone designs.
Energy and Utilities
Inspection, maintenance, overcoming access hurdles, and increasingly remote remediation tasks are all driving energy and utility concerns to innovate around the use of uncrewed vehicles. From performing inspections on generating stations, transmission lines, and substations, the use of ePropelled-powered drones and vehicles has seen remarkable growth.
Drones using thermal cameras and other sensors, for example, can detect structural issues or potential hazards, enabling timely and targeted repairs to solar panels, wind turbines, and power lines. The information gleaned easily and affordably means detecting faults or damage early, preventing accidents, and minimizing downtime.
Drones have become an essential tool in supporting sustainable resource management by accessing remote locations and capturing real-time information. Drones can both track the status of electrical grid infrastructure as well assess the impact of human activities and better meet regulatory requirements.
Equipped with high-resolution cameras and other sensors, uncrewed vehicles can fly close to transmission lines, towers, and antennas and relay images and data for rapid analysis. Drones can also help combat illegal or dangerous activities by providing surveillance and assisting in law enforcement efforts.
Public Safety and Security
More municipalities around the globe are deploying drones and uncrewed vehicles at high volumes to assist in public safety and security requirements.
ePropelled designs for drone propulsion have literally come to the rescue in search and recovery operations, thanks to improved speed and efficiency for finding missing persons or victims of natural disasters.
Lightweight and efficient drones with long battery lives can cover vast areas quickly, scanning the terrain and searching for heat signatures or other signs of human presence. Such rapid response can mean the difference between life and death.
Heavy-duty aerial drones and remote ground vehicles powered by ePropelled are well-suited for delivering critical supplies, such as food, water, and medical equipment, often faster than
conventional rescue teams can.
Drones can be essential in hostage or active shooter incidents by delivering real-time video and intelligence so teams can resolve the situations more effectively with better outcomes.
By reducing the time and resources for public safety and security operations, uncrewed vehicles improving successful rescues while also reducing the risks faced by rescue personnel.
Inspection
When people can’t easily and affordably attain access to inspect construction sites, machinery, and facilities, uncrewed vehicles and drones are the best solution to obtaining needed data and knowledge.
Drone technology has significantly improved inspections and surveying chores by offering a faster, more accurate, and cost-effective alternative to conventional manpowered methods. Inspections using drones and uncrewed ground vehicles are growing rapidly for such uses as construction, mining, and environmental management.
In construction, drones are now monitoring build progress, helping with site planning, and making sure that projects stay on track and within budget. Increasingly these tasks are being automated and are using machine learning and artificial intelligence to reduce the need for
manual labor, saving time and money while improving accuracy, reliability, and safety.
Agriculture
Uncrewed vehicles and drones are proving to be the low-cost solutions that jump-start productivity and time-savings in the agricultural sector. Indeed, the use of drones in agriculture has revolutionized how farmers manage their acreage, improve crop health, and increase yields, all while reducing total costs.
Ease in access from drones allows vast collection of data and analyzing of soil conditions, irrigation outputs, and overall plant health. As in commercial uses, drone technology enables farmers to identify issues early and take corrective action faster.
The data gathering for such issues as nutrient deficiencies, pest infestations, and diseases is only part of the benefit that uncrewed vehicles bring to farmers. How to then solve those problems is also now the purview of drones and vehicles on ground and in the air, as they are used to actually deliver and apply the needed fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, and medications precisely and intelligently.
Photo and Film
Commercial and recreational drones have long been staples of aerial photography. Now such added sensor technologies as lidar is expanding the ways images and discoveries can be attained from the air.
One of the first uses of drones is alive and well. More aerial images and video footage than ever is bringing access to places and things best seen from the air but without the need for costly traditional methods, such as helicopters or cranes.
As solutions providers like ePropelled continue to advance drone technology, expect to see even more creative and innovative uses for aerial sensors and photography in the future.
