Elios 3 Context

Market context

Elios 3 is Flyability’s indoor inspection drone for mapping and visual inspection inside confined, hard-to-access industrial assets.

  • Target environment: Tanks, mines, sewers, power-generation assets, chemical plants, maritime spaces and other confined or GPS-denied industrial environments.
  • Workflow context: Captures visual, thermal and LiDAR-backed inspection data, then ties findings to a 3D map through Flyability’s software workflow.
  • Customer context: Asset owners, inspection service providers, mining operators, energy companies, utilities and industrial maintenance teams.
  • Deployment model: Commercial indoor drone system with companion cockpit and Inspector software plus optional payloads.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product with public documentation and named payload ecosystem.
  • Adoption constraints: Flight time varies by payload and indoor inspection quality still depends on operator procedure, lighting, access and post-processing.
  • Market position: Leading confined-space inspection drone category reference with collision-tolerant hardware and SLAM-based mapping.
  • Adjacent products: Dronut DD1, Emesent Hovermap, Skydio X10

Specifications

  • Embedded LIDAR: Onboard LiDAR creates real-time high-density point cloud maps
  • Lighting: 16K lumen dust-proof lighting on close-up inspection payload
  • Payload Bay: Two-port modular payload bay, one dedicated to LiDAR and one for auxiliary payloads
  • Environmental Protection: IP44 design target according to Flyability; not certified IP44
  • Max Flight Time Minutes: ≤12.5 min without payload; 9.1 min with LiDAR payload; 8.2 min max load

Comparable Systems

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