Elistair, a Lyon, France-based company designs and manufactures tethered stations for drones, bringing increased safety, unlimited autonomy and high-speed data transfer to drone operations.
Commercial drones are increasingly becoming popular across numerous verticals. Entry of several new startups and technological advancements have helped end users acquire UAVs that are tailored particularly for their industries. Hence we see drones in the security industry that can autonomously conduct surveillance over a specified area, those in agriculture that can survey crops and intelligently distinguish them as per requirements and even research fields that require drones for gathering information.
However, one of the major hurdles in the development of this industry has been the short life of drone batteries. On an average, the flight time of a commercial drone is limited to 10 to 20 minutes, making it useless...