Microavia

Microavia is an autonomous drone technology company based in Dubai. It supplies drone-in-a-box systems that monitor critical infrastructure and borders continuously without a pilot. The company describes its aim as 24/7 aerial monitoring with real-time alerts. The site says its systems work over mountains and other terrain without roads.

Drone-in-a-box system

• Autonomous operation: the drone flies its missions without a pilot and returns to its box, where the site says a battery swap takes about two minutes.
• Coverage: the site cites a 15 km operating radius and recommends about one box for every 10 km of long border.
• Detection: object detection, tracking and alerting, with an infrared camera for night operations.
• Control: the Microavia UTM provides mission planning and automation, can run without internet access, and integrates with other security systems.
• Manual takeover: operators can switch from automatic to manual control to follow a suspicious object.

Use cases

The site lists perimeter protection for critical infrastructure, such as detecting a damaged fence or suspicious activity near a boundary, and preventing illegal border crossings, including smuggling and poaching. It says oil and gas operations have been tested in real use, and that a target can be tracked until a response unit arrives.

Coverage and control

The site recommends a coverage area of about 10 by 4 km for each box, and says the UTM's intuitive controls have a near-instant learning curve. It states that operations can run simultaneously and continuously, and lists tunnel digging among the illegal crossings the system helps stop.

Key facts

• Based in: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Products: Microavia drone-in-a-box system, Microavia UTM
• Markets: Border security, critical infrastructure, and oil and gas operations