HEROTECH8 brings Flock on board to insure and protect its automated drone-in-a-box technology

Flock­’s data-dri­ven insur­ance is now incor­po­rat­ed into HEROTECH8’s drone-in-a-box tech­nol­o­gy, mak­ing it easy for any organ­i­sa­tion to deploy safe, secure and ful­ly insured autonomous UAVs.

The lead­ing UAV and eVTOL insur­er’s risk intel­li­gence engine pow­ers a suite of ful­ly flex­i­ble insur­ance prod­ucts in the drone indus­try, rang­ing from pay-as-you-fly poli­cies for SMEs, to usage-based enter­pris­es insur­ance for some of the world’s largest drone fleets.

This new part­ner­ship between both com­pa­nies now means HEROTECH8 cus­tomers have access to ful­ly com­pli­ant insur­ances for its autonomous drone oper­a­tions.

Edward Anas­tas­sacos, CEO of HEROTECH8 said: “We need­ed a for­ward-think­ing and fast-to-respond insur­ance part­ner for such a vision­ary prod­uct and we found that in Flock. Our part­ner­ship allows any of our cus­tomers to quick­ly and effec­tive­ly align insur­ance costs with oper­a­tions and ensure all fly­ing is ful­ly com­pli­ant.” 

HEROTECH8 pro­vides an end-to-end ser­vice with com­plete drone hard­ware and soft­ware inte­gra­tion into its cus­tomers’ oper­a­tions. Ser­vices include deliv­ery, instal­la­tion and main­te­nance of mate­r­i­al as well as staff train­ing and per­mis­sion to fly.

The com­pa­ny’s mis­sion is to over­come the  ‘one pilot per drone’ mind­set, which is cur­rent­ly lim­it­ing the poten­tial of UAS tech­nol­o­gy and hin­der­ing wide­spread adop­tion. It has solved this chal­lenge by cre­at­ing a com­plete­ly autonomous sys­tem that can auto­mat­i­cal­ly deploy and con­trol the lead­ing com­mer­cial­ly avail­able drones. 

Using a spe­cialised launch­pad, drones can take off, con­duct duties, land and charge their bat­ter­ies with­out human inter­ven­tion. HEROTECH8 is now work­ing with all types of organ­i­sa­tions look­ing to con­duct UAV oper­a­tions autonomous­ly.

The safe, secure and sim­ple to deploy sys­tem is ide­al for secu­ri­ty sweeps, hotspot detec­tion, rou­tine facil­i­ty mon­i­tor­ing and inspec­tion and many oth­er tasks that would have pre­vi­ous­ly required ded­i­cat­ed per­son­nel.

Sam Gold­en, Sales & Mar­ket­ing Lead at Flock, added: “It won’t be long before every major indus­tri­al facil­i­ty is using drones to car­ry out a range of rou­tine tasks. From sur­veil­lance and sur­vey­ing gut­ters to act­ing as ear­ly warn­ing sys­tems for fires.

“We work with com­pa­nies work­ing on the edge of what’s pos­si­ble. The work HEROTECH8 is doing def­i­nite­ly falls into that cat­e­go­ry.  We can’t wait to see what they do next and sup­port them on their jour­ney” 

Flock is now work­ing with glob­al insur­ers to launch a range of prod­ucts in oth­er spe­cial­i­ty lines insur­ance as part of its mis­sion to make the world a safer, smarter place.