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Topview srl
The Company is a family owned business composed by father (Salvatore) an son (Alberto) Alberto Mennella - Innovation Manager - Telecommunication Engineer motivated by a strong passion for the aerospace industry with more than 14 years of experience in different companies. Alberto covered different roles (Chief Technology Officer, Project Manager, System Engineer, Software Developer) having good communication skills and excellent attitude to general problem solving; Alberto is author of several press articles and academic papers in the topic of UAS and GNSS applications and owner and inventor of 3 patents. Salvatore Mennella - CEO - Main job experience (35+ years) was spent in driving R&D groups in several projects in the fields of telecommunication, robotics, energy, aerospace, ICT. He begun as hardware designer inside Olivetti S.p.A., then as R&D Manager inside Italtel S.p.A. Last job experiences as large PV plants designer and CEO inside TopView startup.
Our idea is to introduce the autonomous drone technology and IoT sensors for surveillance applications in the blue economy, in order to introduce innovation and a tangible added value for different applications.
The main idea is to install Hangars for small drones with recharging stations at given places (e.g. port authority premises) and low costs IoT sensors on known places such as protected Marine areas, fish farms, ...) in order to detect access violations or robberies that generally occurs at night time.
The IoT sensors and the drone's hangar are connected to the Cloud. If the sensors detect intrusions, they send an alarm to the Cloud intercepted by Drone's hangar. The drone, equipped with a thermal camera, autonomously flies on the given point and opens via cloud a video stream to a remote operator.
This idea will benefit of both technologies we master, already at a very high TRL (IoT sensors - TRL 9);
Autonomous drone with recharging stations (TRL 7-8)
Our competitive advantage is represented by the presence with different projects in the communities that are defining the new rules and services for drones operations in Europe (U-space community). Our presence allows us to have a knowledge on the roadmap of the regulations for autonomous drone operations before competitors, by participating directly in the definition of requirements.
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- Your project TRL is 4 or higher
- Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
- Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
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