Drones are a $27 million industry in India. Fueled by robust drone expertise and local investments, Tamil Nadu has emerged as a hub for drone production. Its capital, Chennai, is attracting established drone companies and fostering a local startup scene. Chennai drone companies work closely with the aerospace and defense industries to build unmanned aerial vehicles and associated software. These are some to know.
Drone Companies in Chennai
- Intelsat
- The ePlane Company
- Garuda Aerospace
- Aero360
- Boeing
Drone Companies in Chennai
Intelsat owns and operates a global network of satellites that enable connectivity services in some of the hardest to reach spots in the world, including land, air, ocean and space contexts. It offers services in the C5ISR categories: command, control, communications, computers, cyber, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. For unmanned aerial vehicles, Intelsat provides comms-on-the-move, which entails real-time data transmission and motion video support.
Aerospace and aviation specialist The ePlane Company makes aircraft and associated hardware and technology. With its subsidiary company Amber Wings, ePlane offers Atva, a hybrid VTOL drone intended for use in cargo transport, mapping and surveillance. VTOL, or vertical takeoff and landing, aircraft are sometimes referred to as air taxis.
Garuda Aerospace is a drone company that engineers and manufactures a full catalog of unmanned aerial vehicles. Its Kisan agri-drone, designed for farm work, is built with sensors and cameras that collect data for crop management and other agricultural processes. The company also offers specialty drones for mapping and surveying, conducting surveillance, cleaning solar panels, dropping seeds and maintaining power lines.
Custom drone company Aero360 manufactures bespoke drones to customer specifications. It also offers out-the-box UAVs, including the CHAKRA fixed-wing VTOL stealth defense drone, which is designed and built to military standards for discretion, flight time and operational range. The company serves the agriculture, mining, forestry, defense and disaster management sectors with its custom products.
Boeing is a multinational aerospace company that operates the world’s largest aircraft fleet of over 10,000 planes, helicopters and UAVs. Its autonomous systems division builds unmanned vehicles for applications “from seabed-to-space.” The Boeing ScanEagle is an unmanned aerial system that includes four UAVs, a ground control station, launch system and remote video terminal.
