weflo (CEO Kim Eui-jeong) announced that it will participate in CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9 to Friday, January 12, next year (local time).
weflow is a company that provides automated air mobility inspection solutions and predictive inspection solutions. We currently have technology to inspect UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and eVTOL (electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing), commonly used as ‘air taxis’. In the drone market, weflo inspects defects in the exterior and interior of the aircraft within seconds before takeoff through its product ‘Verti-Pit’ and provides predictive inspection data to operators through systematic data. In 2023, we succeeded in building 15 demonstration cities across the country together with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. Our goal is to contribute to the commercialization of AAM (Advanced Air Mobility), which is getting closer every day by developing solutions in the drone market.
The service provided by weflow uses automated inspection technology to inspect the interior and exterior of future air mobility aircraft. The inspection derives systematic data using aerospace domain knowledge-based AI and big data technology consisting of self-developed sensors, and provides predictive inspection and accident prevention services based on the data. This service takes various forms depending on the customer group, and currently includes a buried Verti-Pit for small drones, a standing Verti-Pit for large drones, and a mobile drone inspection pad set for military drones. there is.
At this CES, we plan to introduce a drone inspection set (all-in-one set) for operators using military drones or portable drones, and this drone carrier will display inspection results intuitively and expand and link to an app. It has the advantage of providing convenience, speed, and safety all in one.
A weflo official said, “In 2023, we made a great effort to strategically build references in Korea. This year, together with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, we built 15 demonstration cities across the country, and 23 of our products were built in these demonstration cities, providing preliminary and predictive inspections to ensure safe drone delivery, including urban drone delivery and inter-island drone delivery.” and announced the achievements made so far.
In 2024, we expect to form more partnerships with various overseas companies, including Volatus Infrastructure, LLC, which signed an MOU in 2023 with the goal of overseas expansion, and will greatly help commercialize not only the drone industry but also the eVTOL industry. He also expressed his intention to give.
An official said, “weflo wants to lay a stepping stone to overseas expansion through CES. In the domestic market, the growth of the drone and eVTOL·AAM market is slow due to spatial and regulatory restrictions, and there are size limitations, and there is no choice but to follow the laws of the U.S. FAA in terms of regulation. Therefore, we want to expand our business overseas, which is showing a trend of faster growth, and we will begin active overseas expansion starting with CES, the world’s largest IT exhibition.”
In addition, “We plan to build various types of services for a wider range of drone products in 2024, and our goal is to contribute to the commercialization of the AAM industry by expanding to more detailed product lines (large drones, medium-to-large drones, eVTOL, etc.).” “Also, if we focused on building references and proof of concept (PoC) in 2023, we will take the lead in the preliminary inspection field of the drone and eVTOL industry through exports and sales starting in 2024,” he said.
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is an exhibition where you can see the flow of innovative technologies around the world at a glance and is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 18 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 2006, and has been selected through ‘BEST OF CES’ and ‘BEST OF MADE IN KOREA’, which select the best innovative products, companies and technologies. has been in progress. In addition, CES on-site issues are vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.
The CES 2024 Seoul Unified Hall will be operated at the largest scale in terms of exhibition area, number of participating companies, and number of participating supporters since Seoul City’s first participation in CES in 2020. The Seoul Integration Center, in which 13 organizations collaborate and participate, is an important step in Seoul’s efforts to make Seoul a mecca for startups, and 17 of the companies participating in the Seoul Integration Center proved this by receiving innovation awards. The participating institutions in the Seoul Unification Center are ▲SBA ▲Seoul Bio Hub ▲Campus Town ▲AI Yangjae Hub ▲Gwanak-gu ▲Yonsei University ▲Korea University ▲Chung-Ang University ▲Sogang University ▲Kookmin University ▲Hanyang University ▲Konkuk University ▲Kyunghee University. Not only the Seoul Metropolitan Government, institutions, and companies, but also supporters through industry-academia cooperation are matched 1:1 with companies, and 85 supporters, the largest number, will participate.
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