Collaboration on Disaster Relief Project 

We're delighted to share a couple of pictures from an exciting, and successful week of collaboration held at Elistair HQ in France with our friends from the United Nations World Food Programme, Elistair and Ericsson Response.

The objective was to bring together a wide range of expertise to provide the UNWFP with a reliable, mobile, and easy to deploy emergency communications solution which can be launched in the event of natural disaster or emergency.

The result:

A tailored Clogworks Dark Matter hX drone on a Safe-T tether with an Ericsson Wi-Fi payload that will provide essential, and potentially lifesaving, connectivity in an area of over 3km² to vulnerable members of the affected population during a crisis.

A big thank you to United Nations World Food Programme, WFP Innovation Accelerator, Elistair and Ericsson Responsefor making this project happen.

About the United Nations World Food Program me

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.

About WFP Innovation Accelerator

Based in Munich, Germany, the WFP Innovation Accelerator sources, supports and scales bold new solutions to achieve Zero Hunger. It provides WFP operations, entrepreneurs and start-ups with funding, hands-on support and access to WFP’s global operations.

About Elistair

Elistair designs and manufactures best in class tethering stations for use with commercial UAVs Their tether stations are field proven products, used by over 300 different organisations across 50 countries.

About Ericsson Response

Ericsson Response, the company’s humanitarian relief program, provides communications expertise, equipment and resources in times of a disaster by installing and maintaining temporary internet connectivity until local services have sufficiently recovered.

About Clogworks Technologies

Clogworks Technologies is a UAV manufacturer offering modular and adaptable highly efficient carbon fibre multi-rotor aerial drones. We specialise in integrating different sensors/ payloads and developing solutions to meet the most demanding customers’ needs.