EDITORIAL

“…We aim to leverage the team's experience in software publishing, robotics, and aeronautical telecommunications to develop a solution tailored to new drone use cases.
By meeting EASA safety requirements, it will enable the widespread use of drones in our society for both military and civil applications: surveillance, preventive maintenance, parcel delivery…”

Samuel BRAU – President

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OUR COMPANY

Founded in 2019 in Nîmes, Drone Geofencing develops a solution to supervise a fleet (or swarm) of multi-domain drones from a control center.
The team consists of engineers and PhDs specializing in software development, microelectronics, and radio frequencies.
Drone Geofencing works closely with several CNRS and CIRA research teams, drone manufacturers, and major contractors.

They invested €1.4 million in 2023

LEADERSHIP

Samuel BRAU

President

“An engineer by training (computer science, electronics, and automation), I held operational management positions (planning, engineering, operations, sales) at several telecommunications operators (SITA, Orange Business Services) for 12 years.
In 2008, I took charge of the funding consultancy Monte Cristo Consulting (fundraising, public grants) before joining the software publisher Virdys (augmented reality, virtual reality) in 2016.”

Anne BRAU

Chief Executive Officer

A graduate of NEOMA Business School and holder of a certified public accountant diploma, I worked for the firm EY in Paris for 11 years within the statutory audit, internal control advisory, internal audit, and risk management teams.
In 2006, I joined the Imerys group, where I established the Risk and Internal Control department and led its operations.”

THE TEAM

OUR RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS

University

of Montpellier

Under the signed research agreement, several of the university's research laboratories are involved:
  • The LIRMM (UMR 5506) works on AI algorithms applied to real-time aerial imaging, the development of a proprietary codec, targeting technologies, and swarm guidance algorithms.
  • The IES (UMR 5214) works on an uncoupled passive broadband antenna and its associated electronic board

Research Center

Italian Aerospace (CIRA)

Drone Geofencing is a member of a collaborative project funded by the European Defence Fund called EAGLES for "Efficient Autonomous multirole drone Guard for criticaL, infrastructures surveillancE missionS".
The project consists of developing a mothership drone capable of carrying a swarm of drones to collect information on a theater of operations at a reduced cost.
As part of the project, Drone Geofencing is developing communication and guidance technologies with CIRA.

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