Autonomous drones

Davide GhezziCofounder, COO

Most of infrastructures inspective or surveillance activities are repetitive, dangerous, expensive and time consuming

Most of these tasks could be easily automated

Archon’s mission is to

robotize inefficient, repetitive, dangerous, costly operations

currently performed by humans

using fully autonomous land and air drones

1. Proprietary software solutions enabling full operations control

Planning & Coordination

Secure Cloud

Virtual Reality Control Room

PCT Patent requestedUS16/39055 (June 2016)

Patent under development

1. A unique and proprietary Artificial Intelligence engine

Simulation engine Optimization engine(strategical level)

Optimization engine(tactical level)

2. Proprietary docking and recharging technologies:Plug-in Wheels and Recharging station

Plug-in Wheels Recharging Station

PCT Patent requestedUS16/26152 (April 2016)

PCT Patent requestedUS17/19032 (February 2017)

Current Stage: working prototypes moving from Lab to Market

Landing-Docking Plug-in

Docking Recharge Station

• Landing plugin that can be attached to any drone in principle (DJI, 3DR..)

• Motorized ground propulsion: active wheels• Patent pending in USA, EU, China, Mexico, India, Brasil

• Recharge time equivalent to standard AC line (~30min).

• Customizable to host drones and rovers of different sizes and payload.

The platform offers the possibility of using multi-robots & IoT solutions, including developed by third parties

Powerful IoT Datacenter• Cloud infrastructure made available remotely and on premises,

flexibly support with computing power also other IOT platform.• Can be used to run predictive maintenance or other heavy-duty

Multi-robots solutions within the same platform

Robotics solutions are equipped with resilience technology, featuring auto-routing, dynamic replanning, obstacle avoidance, dual GPS & Indoor Slam

QuadcopterShort range (5 Km)

RoverStructured

environments and Indoor

QuadplaneLong range (30 Km)

Robotics applications in the Energy production and Construction industries, retrofitting existing facilities or at construction time

• Predictive maintenance• Corrective maintenance• Thermal scanning• 4K visual inspection• Surveillance• Indoor/outdoor inspections• Alarm verification• Crisis management• Detection of

trespassing/vandalism• Detection of defects and leakages

through chemical sensors• Aggregates volume

measurements

Solar plants

Coal Plants

Large Construction Zones

• Aerial surveys• 3D model generation• construction progress

management• logistics operation

assistance• forensic scenario

reconstruction for insurance/investigations

• compliance verification• IT cloud backup local

infrastructure support• IOT data fusion

Some of our current clients

Global energy utility, EUR 71bn revenues

Utility, EUR 6bn revenues

Water distribution utility, EUR 300mn revenues

Telecom operator, 4.5bn EUR revenues

Inspection and security project In a coal plant

Inspection and security project In a coal plant

Inspection and security project In a coal plant

Enel Coal Plant in Civitavecchia (Roma)

300x boost in frequency of inspections will save 2-6% in O&M costs

• Security• Toxic gas monitoring• Environmental Protection• Thermal inspections

Archon Task is to collect data on-demand 24/7 fast, safely, consistently, accurately – then provide infrastructure for analytics

Powerful IoT Datacenter• Cloud infrastructure made available remotely and on premises,

flexibly support with computing power also other IOT platform.• Can be used to run predictive maintenance or other heavy-duty

Inspection of cracks in walls (indoor and outdoor) of dams

• Indoor/outdoor inspectionsrequiring monitoring (e.g. checking the cracks and the basin)

• POC of semi-autonomous inspection completed

• Savings in O&M related to reduced labour time, no need for installation and reduced labour operations

Volume computation of aggregates in quarries

• Frequent and accurate topographic measurements of volumes of aggregates• POC of semi-autonomous volumetric analysis completed• Savings related to reduced labour time and reduced labour operations

Note: Including also those developed by our partner firm Laser Navigation

Inspection of burners in coal power plants (indoor, poor communication, toxic environment)

• Indoor inspection causing weeks of labour and downtime/year

• POC of semi-autonomous inspection completed

• Savings in O&M related to reduced labour time, no need for installation and lower downtime

Maintenance (thermal inspection) and securityof big solar power plants

• Outdoor solar panels inspection with thermal cameras and alarm verification• One pilot developed partnering with an O&M company

Pilot project with fully autonomous drones:Enel Green Power in Sicily and Chile solar plants

Recurrent random patrols (video-surveillance)

Thermal/visual inspection of any panel at high

resolution

On-demand video/thermal monitoring of the site (e.g. alarm

verification)

The drones will perform:

Higher efficiency compared to actual solutions (2-3% more) and savings in O&M related to reduced human interventions for verifications and surveillance activities

Archon is developing long range technology (Quadplane) to completely automate power grid and pipeline inspections

• Dual mode of operations: single/specific point inspection; channel/pipe inspections

• Auto-takeoff / landing / docking taking 5-10 minutes• Re-charging taking up to 20/30 minutes• Robust fault-tolerant scheduling of inspections with

battery constraints and predictions• Use of pre-registered mission for quality control, anti-

collision, reliability• Image analysis (via machine learning) for defects or

leakages recognition

Inspection in quad-rotor mode

Fast automatic return to base in plane-mod (or travel to another base!)

Archon has offices in Milan and San Francisco

o NASA / USRA, Scientist & Science Operations Manager

o Ph.D. in Physics & Simulations, AI and Optimization, 20+ publications, 200+ citations

o Singularity University, GSP

CEO, StrategyDavide Venturelli

o Sistema Solare Private Equity, cofounder

o Mediobanca UK, Director, Emerging Markets

o JPMorgan, Associate, Emerging Markets

o Pirelli Telecom, Project Manager

o Columbia Business School, MBA

o Singularity University, EP

Business DevelopmentDavide Ghezzi

o Laser Navigation, Owner. 20+ years experience in drone development, robotics, mechatronics, security, 10+ engineers

o APMcopter, Founder, programmer

o Italian Federation Aircraft Pilot in Remote President

CTORoberto Navoni

o ETT AR/VR Creative Director

o Mixed reality architect Neurograph

o Founder UBICAo M. Sc. University of

Genova in Oceanographyo International Auggie VR

Award 2014

UX/UI

o Co-Founder Pandigital, leading cybersecurity consulting

o 4 years at Ferrari communication software

o Web developer and Android/IOS developer at Panini and 4Ward consulting

Software EngineeringDaniele StanzaniGiovanni Landi

o Mario App, Managing Director

o Uber, Operations Manager / Supply Growth

o Bain & Company, Consultant

o General Electric, Associate Financial Analyst

o Ph.D. in Business Bologna University

Project ManagementFrancesco Castellano

They gained experience working for, among others:

Davide Ghezzidg@archon.ai

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Archon is looking for 3.0€ million investment to support its developments for 2018-19

R&D

Business Development

Staff 3.0 € Million mainly to boost:

- Business Development- R&D activities: Software, Hardware (quad plane, New

recharging station for long range)

General & Administrative

Note: Not included production costs

Improvements on Quad-PlaneNew industrialized

Recharging Station

AI robustnessimprovements

APPENDIX: VIRTUAL REALITY ADD-ONS

Davide Ghezzidg@archon.ai