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Show HN: DronesBench an innovative testing machine for drones

dronesbench.net

2 pointsDrNuke7 comments

Disclaimer: I act here as a business dev and technical advisor. Any feedback or questions welcome. Thanks. (please ref. Hacker News if writing directly to the firm)

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DronesBench is an innovative testing machine (patents pending) that summarizes the health status of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, up to 2 meters long, by using a single measure called IDB (DronesBench Index). The IDB indicates the grams heaved by one watt of electric power used. It is a number that sums up the optimal performance of the whole propulsion system of the drone. Therefore, significant decreases reveal hidden defects, levelled by the control-board. The IDB measurement is a very fast and preventive tool to check the safety of any UAV's mission: once the UAV is fixed to our machine, it takes just a few seconds for the bench to get the measure. The IDB is also a good candidate for future legislation that will norm and certificate the efficiency of UAVs worldwide: we are in fact working with Politecnico di Bari, a well-reputed university in Italy, to disseminate our work and validate the IDB internationally against a large number of cases.

From a commercial perspective, DronesBench is suited to UAVs workshops for fast checks and efficiency certifications in order to save time and money. Therefore, we are going to sell it from 15 Jan 2017 and are collecting expressions of interest, pre-orders and orders from players employing fleet of drones worldwide.

May this be of your interest? Specifications, details, a brochure and some videos are on the website. Thanks again for your attention.

Is it for sale?

Yes it is, the testing machine I mean. The entire business with patents and team I think not, we have a 3-5 years plan relying upon the booming UAVs market, our r&d capabilities, the new IDB index as a possible universal efficiency standard and the legislation / certification aspects to come worldwide. Feel free to send in an email, just in case, ref. Hacker News. Thanks.

I didn't see any call to action around buying one or much technical detail on the website, that's why I asked.

Point taken, thanks: website and communication need work before going fully public on 15 Jan 2017. As for the machines, we have produced and tested a beta batch against the relevant legislation and a number of cases. We have now the capabilities to build 2 machines per day. I can surely take note of your expression of interest and come back to you at a later stage? Thanks again.

We are offering the basic version of our bench (the machine; three different heads to accommodate your UAVs; our in-house software; two days of formation in Foggia, Italy; and 24 months of free assistance and updates) at a special price. We are also considering orders for customised machines and services.

The spirit of "Show HN" is for people to share things that the community can try out or play with. Mostly for the purposes of obtaining feedback without having to formally launch.

My responses were due to appearance of the link as a "Show HN" and in its spirit. Unfortunately, I'm not currently in the drone manufacturing business and have few plans to enter it.

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