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DRAGONFLY
Accuware Dragonfly was developed in 2016 by Accuware’steam using proprietary and patented computer visionalgorithms for visual SLAM.
Accuware Dragonfly is designed to provide the preciselocation of moving devices, such as robots, drones,UAV, UGV, AGV, forklifts, industrial cleaning machines andmultiple types of vehicles and automated devices.
The list below is a partial list of the most relevantcustomers.
Last update: August 2020
Projects:Ericsson contacted Accuware to integrate indoorpositioning on board of multiple different robots andvehicles.
The first project, which is not under NDA, was aboutperforming location tracking of a lawn mower, using 5Gconnection, provided by Ericsson, to stream the video fromthe mower to a central server performing the locationcomputation.
After several months of cooperative development,Accuware and Ericsson presented the actual functionallawn mower at a trade show.
The video is available at this link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjQq9DiO6Dw
After this project Ericsson has decided to integrateDragonfly on board of several other devices and robots thatare currently in use among Ericsson’s corporate customers.
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Customer name: Ericsson
Time with Dragonfly:2 years
Location:Multiple, Worldwide
Claimed Accuracy:10 cm
Project:
iRadar has integrated Dragonfly on board of robotsused for inspection.
After successfully testing Dragonfly, iRadar hasdecided to install it on multiple robots that theyuse for different customers.
iRadar offers multiple industries with sensing andanalytics solution where UAV (unmanned AerialVehicle) is deployed to achieve an instant impactand cost effective value for industries to make areal difference.
Their customers come from different industries:agriculture, mining, construction, oil and gas, andfor each customer they deliver the best technologyand make use of Dragonfly each time preciseindoor location is required.
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Customer name: iRadar
Time with Dragonfly:1.5 years
Location:Malaysia
Claimed Accuracy:5~10 cm
Project:Modani is a worldwide famouse manufacturer of luxuryfurniture, which has been acquired by Maison du Monde in2018.
For their warehouses based in the United States, Modanihas selected Accuware as their partner for precise forklifttracking.
Accuware's team has helped Modani's operation managerto install Dragonfly on board the forklifts in the Miami'swarehouse, approximately 15,000 sqm large, and duringthe on-site tests the precision of the technology could be ashigh as 2 inches throughout the whole venue.
Modani has then proceeded to deploy Dragonflythroughout all the warehouses in the United States.Operation and warehouse managers can monitor the realtime location of the forklifts, control the operations and theactual usage time of each unit. This permits theimprovements of daily routines along with a lower cost formaintenance and leising.
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Customer name:Modani
Time with Dragonfly:9 months
Location:USA, Worldwide
Claimed Accuracy:2~4 inches
Project: The customer is one of the largest manufacturer ofindustrial cleaning machines. The customer wantedto find a technology able to provide precise indoor locationof the machines in order to optimize the operations andcleaning routines.
On the other side, the customer also wants to leverageDragonfly to perform autonomous navigation and createthe first unmanned industrial cleaning machines. For thisreasons, after testing several technologies to find the mostaccurate and robust option, they have decided to chooseDragonfly and integrate it on-board the machines.
The camera, a standard monocular camera, is installed ontop, pointing towards the ceiling. The computing unit is alsoinstalled on board, so that the whole process canhappen locally on the machine. The location data is thensent to an external server for further analysis andhistorical tracking (heat maps, spaghetti diagrams, reports).The customer is rolling out the plan to install Dragonfly onmore than 1,500 new machines/year.
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Customer: CleaningMachine Manufacturer
Time with Dragonfly:9 months
Location:USA, Worldwide
Claimed Accuracy:4~7 inches
Project: the customer is one of the largest Telco in theworld. For the German market they are installingDragonfly on board of multiple vehicles, mainlyforklifts, for their corporate customers using aprivate local 4G network in their facilities.
By doing this, they keep just the camera on boardthe vehicle, while the computing power resides ona powerful local server (Intel NUC) that gathers andprocesses the videos coming from all the differentunits, leveraging the local 4G network provided byour customer.
There are many practical applications that rangesfrom operation management to improved locationdesign and architecture. Our client is providingconsulting services along with the technology toassure that every customer gets the best out ofDragonfly.
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Customer: German Telco Operator
Time with Dragonfly:9 months
Location:Germany
Claimed Accuracy:5~20 cm
Project: The customer is a worldwide famous company thatoperates in several industries.
One of the branches is in charge of producingforklifts and providing warehouse managementsystems and services. In this context the client isinterested in installing Dragonfly on board of thenew forklifts being produced.
Besides this, the customer wants to be able toinstall Dragonfly-as-a-service on the existingforklifts that are operating inside their clientsfacilities. The typical architecture include on boardcamera and computing unit, since it is notalways possible to use the on-site WiFi connectionthat would be needed to use a remote computingarchitecture.
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Customer: ForkliftManufacturer
Time with Dragonfly:11 months
Location:Italy, Germany, USA
Claimed Accuracy:<20 cm
Project:The customer is a worldwide famous manufacturerthat operates in the automotive and aerospatialindustries.
The customer is using Dragonfly to track thelocation of flying drones inside their productivesites for security and monitoring purposes. TheR&D team of the customer is currently working tointegrate Dragonfly on board other industrialdrones to allow complete autonomous navigationinside large warehouses, for inspection. The client is developing a user interface to plan theroutes that the drone has to follow and is takingDragonfly’s data as the location source for thenavigation and piloting.
The expected ROI is higher than 100%, as it willsignificantly reduce the amount of hours of workneeded and the personnel involved in theoperations.
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Customer:Automotive/Aerospace
Time with Dragonfly:1 year
Location:UK, India, Worldwide
Claimed Accuracy:<7 cm
ProjectThe customer is a Japanese manufacturer ofrobots/rovers that are used in multiple industries.Their scope is to deliver robots that solve actualproblems, such as attending visitors on a tradeshow’s floor, providing information to travelersinside an airport, help patients and visitors insidehealthcare facilities.
Robots move autonomously on wheels, and therewas the need to precisely track their location toconstantly monitor the movements and optimizethe use of the robots.
In this context, after using LiDars, the customer hasdecided to switch to Dragonfly since theimplementation cost has been proven to be lower,with an increased accuracy and stability of thesystem.
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Customer: PersonalRobots Manufacturer
Time with Dragonfly:9 months
Location:Japan
Claimed Accuracy:<10 cm
