Umiles UAV expands into Latin American market

Umiles Group has announced that it is expand­ing into Chile as a gate­way to the Latin Amer­i­can mar­ket with its Drone Light Show busi­ness line, a Span­ish pio­neer in cre­at­ing cus­tomised light shows with drones, and its Com­mer­cial Ser­vices divi­sion, which works with unmanned aer­i­al vehi­cles in the indus­tri­al sec­tor.

Drone Light Show has been deliv­er­ing shows all over the world since 2019, design­ing and per­form­ing chore­o­gra­phies fea­tur­ing 200 drones in coun­tries such as Mex­i­co, Cuba, Por­tu­gal and Andor­ra. At the end of this month, the first ever pri­vate drone show, fea­tur­ing 200 drones, will take place in San­ti­a­go de Chile for a lead­ing glob­al lux­u­ry brand.

Demand for these after-dark per­for­mances con­tin­ues to grow as a clean­er, safer alter­na­tive to tra­di­tion­al fire­works dis­plays. Since the new Euro­pean reg­u­la­tion on UAS came into effect in Jan­u­ary 2021 there has been a steep increase in demand, and Drone Light Show already has more than 30 shows in the pipeline for 2023, pri­mar­i­ly for pri­vate com­pa­nies and local admin­is­tra­tions.

The Com­mer­cial Ser­vices busi­ness line oper­ates in the indus­tri­al sec­tor, facil­i­tat­ing drones for use in large-scale infra­struc­ture inspec­tions in var­i­ous dif­fer­ent fields like renew­able ener­gies, forests, mines and high­ways, for exam­ple.

Raúl Cor­ti­jo, COO at Umiles UAV, said: “The deploy­ment of var­i­ous Umiles UAV ser­vices in Chile is a key mile­stone in the com­pa­ny’s glob­al­i­sa­tion strat­e­gy, offer­ing a gate­way into the Latin Amer­i­can mar­ket.

“Fur­ther to the suc­cess­ful launch of Umiles Uni­ver­si­ty in the coun­try to train the drone pilots of the future, we will now be deliv­er­ing cus­tomised drone shows and drones for inspect­ing and improv­ing infra­struc­ture.”

Using coor­di­nat­ed drone swarms, the Umiles Drone Light Show embla­zons images across the skies and chore­o­graphs com­plete­ly unique and cus­tomis­able light shows. Each drone has its own flight mis­sion which it traces in coor­di­na­tion with the rest of the swarm, main­tain­ing the appro­pri­ate safe­ty dis­tance and deliv­er­ing results that have been dubbed the fire­works of the future.

Chile has suc­cess­ful­ly har­nessed the inter­est in the drone indus­try in Latin Amer­i­ca and has been select­ed by Umiles UAV as its head­quar­ters for the region. Under­pinned by a robust struc­ture, Umiles UAV is rolling out the inter­na­tion­al expan­sion of its activ­i­ty in accor­dance with its roadmap.

In Octo­ber last year, the Integri­ty eVTOL 3 con­struct­ed by Umiles first took to the air at the Onera test field in Toulouse, France.

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