The event will feature three specialized sessions:
• 🛡️ Security and Civil Protection
• 🏭 Industry and Infrastructure
• 🌱 Agriculture and Green Spaces

On September 24 & 25, join us at the Swiss Drone Competence Center in Lodrino (TI).

We will explore how this technology is revolutionizing modern workflows and how UAV / UGV solutions—equipped with sophisticated payloads—can optimize processes in key sectors.

Please find the agenda below or download it here.

How to secure your spot:
Registrations close on Monday, September 21! To join us, simply send an email expressing your interest to eventi@mavtech.eu with your name, surname, and profession/company.

We would like to thank our partner  Info Solution for collaborating on this event; CommDrones, Sierra Olympia, TXT Group, Fondazione Links, ABzero and GFMGroup for their interventions in specific Hi-Tech applications; and Taurus Swiss Business Partner for their organizational support.

When disaster strikes, communication lines collapse. Traditional infrastructure fails. Every second matters. In catastrophic scenarios like floods, earthquakes, or wildfires, restoring instant connectivity is not just a tactical goal—it is a matter of life and death.

The ultimate operational breakthrough is here: tethered drones equipped with advanced telecommunication payloads.

Networks that rise when nothing else connects, deploying an independent communication solution for crisis and emergency-response organizations and for large public events, when regular infrastructure is compromised or overloaded.

Continuous ground cable power in Tethered Drone solutions eliminates battery constraints, keeping critical communication hubs airborne 24/7.

Furthermore, the physical tether guarantees maximum flight stability even in adverse weather conditions, reducing the risk of fly-away and ensuring maximum operational safety when traditional drones fail.

MAVTech, in collaboration with CommDrones, a Swiss company specialized in high-performance radio networks, will explore these topics in depth, with presentations and live operational demos at the “Drone Live Operations Days” event, taking place on 24–25 September 2026 at the Swiss Drone Competence Center di Lodrino (TI).

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In large chemical and petrochemical infrastructures, biogas plants, and waste treatment facilities, gas emissions (VOCs, methane) represent a triple threat: environmental, economic, and safety related.

Until recently, detecting these leaks required long, risky manual inspections, often yielding incomplete data. Today, integrating OGI (Optical Gas Imaging) sensors onto UAS (drone) platforms is redefining industry standards.

Drones equipped with OGI sensors can scan vast and complex areas in extremely short timeframes.

Methane, Benzene, Butane, Propane, Vinyl Chloride… over 20 gases invisible to the naked eye appear on the screen as “clouds of smoke.” This allows for instantaneous localization of the exact leak source, enabling real-time visual mapping.

Thanks to this solution, operators are no longer exposed to the risks of working in hard-to-reach or potentially toxic areas. Drone inspections are carried out safely, without the need to interrupt production processes, thereby ensuring operational continuity.

MAVTech, in collaboration with Sierra Olympia, a US company specialized in OGI sensing tech, will explore these topics in depth, with presentations and live operational demos at the “Drone Live Operations Days” event, taking place on 24–25 September 2026 at the Swiss Drone Competence Center in Lodrino (TI).

📩 Are you Interested in participating? Contact us at eventi@mavtech.eu.

Advanced drone solutions open up new possibilities for the safe, monitored and traceable transport of sensitive healthcare materials, including blood components, biological samples, life-saving medicines and, in the future, tissues and organs for transplantation.

Together with ABzero, MAVTech intends to launch a project to deploy an integrated solution combining UAS platform, smart container, digital supervision platform and smart infrastructure.

The goal is to go beyond the concept of the drone as a simple delivery vehicle, developing a system capable of monitoring critical parameters, generating alerts, ensuring continuity of information and supporting healthcare professionals throughout the preparation, dispatch, receipt and verification phases.

This topic will be at the heart of dedicated meetings during the event “Drone Live Operations Days”, taking place on 24–25 September 2026 at the Swiss Drone Competence Center in Lodrino (TI).

On the afternoon of 24 September, MAVTech and ABzero intend to involve healthcare organizations, universities and other stakeholders interested in the future of drone-enabled medical logistics.

📩 Are you Interested in participating and exploring potential collaboration opportunities? Contact us at eventi@mavtech.eu.

MAVTech, in collaboration with Info Solution,  is pleased to announce the upcoming Drone Live Operations Days, taking place on 24–25 September 2026 at the Swiss Drone Competence Center di Lodrino (TI).

The event will feature live field demonstrations across three thematic areas:

•  Security & Civil Protection
• Agriculture & Green Spaces
• Industry & Infrastructures

Attendees will have the opportunity to discover innovative technologies, exchange experiences, and discuss the future of drone operations across different sectors.

Participation is free of charge.

For further information or to express your interest in participating, please contact: 📩 eventi@mavtech.eu

We would like to thank Taurus Swiss Business Partner for all the organizational support.

Having precise and immediate information on plant health is crucial for planning targeted and effective interventions aimed at optimizing the distribution of water and plant protection products, thereby reducing costs, safeguarding crops, and increasing productivity.

In situations such as critical weather events, drone-based analysis may also represent the most immediate and effective solution for obtaining an accurate overview and assessing the most appropriate actions to implement.

In the case presented, multispectral data acquired using the MicaSense Altum-PT sensor mounted on the MAVtech RX3 UAV platform were processed to monitor a traditionally trained trellised vineyard.

High-resolution multispectral and thermal images, subsequently processed through a Structure from Motion (SfM) photogrammetric workflow, enabled the generation of a georeferenced orthomosaic, a digital elevation model (DEM), a dense point cloud, and a 3D vineyard model—essential tools for morphological and vegetative analysis of the crop.

Specific vegetation analysis algorithms were then applied to calculate the Leaf Area Index (LAI) and the MCARI/OSAVI indices, useful for assessing the physiological state of vegetation, vegetative vigor, and chlorophyll response.

By comparing the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and the NDRE (Normalized Difference Red Edge Index), differences in sensitivity in estimating vineyard vegetative status were highlighted. In particular, NDRE is more effective in analyzing crops with high leaf density, proving more sensitive to variations in chlorophyll content during the later stages of the vegetative cycle compared to the traditional NDVI.

In robotics and drone applications, Vicon’s ultra-precise indoor localization system is the preferred solution when control and navigation algorithms must be validated with extreme accuracy, including swarm configurations, as it can simultaneously track the position of multiple drones and robots.

In collaboration with GPEM, a distributor and technology integrator of Vicon systems in Italy for more than 10 years, MAVTech has developed solutions enabling its drones to use positioning data provided by the system either through a direct local network connection (without the need for onboard processing) or through computations performed directly onboard the drone.

The solution, successfully tested and deployed at the “Futura Innovation Lab” of TXT Group, makes it possible to easily operate multiple drones simultaneously in indoor environments, providing an effective interface for developers working on navigation algorithms, autonomous flight, multi-drone systems, and UAV cooperation.

We are also working together on further developments to improve the integration between our drones and the Vicon system, with the goal of making the user experience increasingly simple, intuitive, and effective.

We are proud to have launched this collaboration between MAVTech and GPEM, aimed at providing advanced solutions for universities and public and private research institutions, thereby contributing to technological development in the drone industry.

MAVTech systems, designed and manufactured in Italy, integrate hardware, software, and communication platforms to support efficient operations in inspection, monitoring, surveying, search and rescue activities. The article also highlights new developments currently underway, including VTOL platforms, advanced swarm-based systems and AI algorithms, indoor drones for confined environments without GPS, and collaborative solutions between our drones and the rover systems of partner Info Solution, aimed at continuous monitoring and safety in complex industrial environments such as those in the Oil & Gas sector.

Founded as a spin-off of the Politecnico di Torino, MAVTech continues to develop innovative solutions, transferring research know-how to the market, with applications increasingly focused on safety, operational efficiency, and sustainability.

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The START2 final event at NOI Techpark marked an important milestone for MAVTech, offering the opportunity to present the results of our R&D activities developed throughout the project and to connect with partners, stakeholders, and end users in an exceptionally well-organized setting. It was not only a valuable showcase, but also a platform for building concrete follow-up opportunities. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Sebastian Mayrgündter and the NOI Techpark team for their leadership throughout the project and for hosting such a successful final event.

Key points

The event confirmed that the technology developed within START2 is not only technically sound, but also operationally relevant. The significant results achieved by all partners strengthened our confidence in the real-world applicability of the living lab approach — particularly in mountain rescue and emergency response scenarios.

For MAVTech, the most meaningful outcome was the positive feedback on our tethered drone use case, which enabled the restoration of TETRA radio coverage in a signal-deprived canyon during the Pilot Day 2025 at the Serrai di Sottoguda.

Results achieved

MAVTech presented the results of eight development streams carried out within START2: the evolution of the Q4X drone platform (increased endurance, RTK precision, and progress toward EASA C3/C5 certification), the new compact multi-mission RX3 drone (EASA C2 certification pathway), integrated tethered drone solutions for long-endurance operations, wildfire detection systems using drone-mounted sensors, a preliminary vertiport design for rapid emergency response, the VTOL Lifeseeker for long-range search-and-rescue missions, and an automated mission planning tool for hiking trail operations.

The exchange with rescue professionals, institutional partners, and other technology developers confirmed a shared vision regarding the integration of UAVs into emergency operations in alpine environments.

Throughout the project, MAVTech was proud to share updates, results, and insights via digital channels such as LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook, reaching both its professional network and a wider audience interested in drone technology and civil protection.

In addition, participation in Civil Protect 2025 and REAS 2025, due tra le più importanti fiere in Italia dedicate alla protezione civile e al soccorso d’emergenza, ha permesso a MAVTech di presentare e promuovere i risultati del progetto START2 tra le comunità di utenti finali più rilevanti.

Equipped with a LiDAR sensor and an RGB camera mounted on a steerable gimbal, the MAVtech UAV Q4X flight platform reconstructed the three-dimensional structure of the infrastructure with very high precision, also demonstrating excellent position-holding performance while hovering, despite wind gusts of up to 5 m/s.

The test was planned in compliance with safety requirements and current regulations and took place in two separate locations in the municipality of Gargazzone.

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