Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

FLYABILITY SA


Description

Drone for inaccessible places

Flyability is a Swiss company building safe drones for inaccessible places. By allowing drones to be used safely in cities, inside buildings, and in contact with people, it enables new interactions and services with UAVs and solving the two most critical issues of one of the fastest growing industries: collisions and injury risks. The company’s first market is in industrial inspection where it avoids sending people in dangerous and confined spaces for over 300 customers for the inspection of Energy, Heavy Industries, Oil & Gas and Maritime assets. It is also working with Search & Rescue and security professionals to assess emergency situations without putting humans at risk. Flyability is the winner of the 1M USD Drones for Good Award 2015 and over 15 other technology and business prizes, has raised over 6.5M CHF in funding, and has reached triple-digits growth for three consecutive years.

Project website

https://www.flyability.com


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities
  • Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions

Coverage
  • Switzerland
  • United States of America

Status

Ongoing

Start date

September 2014

End date

Not set


WSIS values promotion

Flyability is a Swiss company building safe drones for inaccessible places. By allowing drones to be used safely in cities, inside buildings, and in contact with people, it enables new interactions and services with UAVs and solving the two most critical issues of one of the fastest growing industries: collisions and injury risks.


Entity name

FLYABILITY SA

Entity country—type

Switzerland Private Sector

Entity website

https://www.flyability.com

Partners

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratory of Intelligent Systems