The decision to invest in the production of drones and was made a year ago, with the company now developing both the hardware and software areas.
Mihai Filip, CEO al OVES Enterprise, este unul dintre speakerii din cadrul evenimentului ZF High-Tech Innovation Summit, ediția 5, care va avea loc mâine, 29 septembrie, la București.
“We are an innovative player in the market of complex services that we have been successfully delivering for almost 9 years to our clients and we are in a favorable moment for the diversification of business lines. We started 1 year ago to invest in different software products and more, and at the moment we are working on 10 products, many of them in the drone segment: either the actual construction of drones, from scratch, or software for drones. Here we have products that we build both in-house and with partners. We concluded a strong partnership, for example, with a company from the UK, with which we built several very complex drones, which have both military and commercial uses”, said Mihai Filip, CEO of OVES Enterprise.
În prezent, OVES Enterprise dezvoltă nouă modele de drone, de diferite dimensiuni, atât cu rotoare, cât și cu aripi fixe. Toate produsele sunt finanțate din fonduri proprii, compania asigurând și partea de cercetare și dezvoltare, cu focus pe inovație și pe identificare de noi modalități de utilizare a dronelor, au mai transmis reprezentanții companiei românești. Primul model de dronă produs de OVES Enterprise – OVES Octocopter – este deja disponibil. Acesta a fost fabricat în parteneriat cu o companie din Marea Britanie.
In the commercial segment, drones can have the following uses: to deliver medical kits to hostile places, to monitor extended areas through high-performance cameras or thermal sensors, to be used as a relay to transmit data, if there is no network, to be used in flock to triangulate communications, according to OVES Enterprise representatives.
However, drones can also have military utility and can perform tasks such as the detection and digital mapping of mines in the ground, the detection, through sensors, of bio-chemical dangers, the neutralization of other military drones, etc.
“We are working to build the drones of the future. All our drones have dual-use capabilities. I can also detect in the soil, but I can also analyze the soil for agriculture. They can carry military equipment, but in the future, they will also be able to carry passengers. They can monitor and secure borders, but they can also monitor traffic. All of them can be used on several verticals”, added Mihai Filip.
OVES Enterprise is currently developing nine drone models, of various sizes, both with rotors and fixed wings. All products are financed from own funds, the company also provides the research and development part, with a focus on innovation and identifying new ways of using drones. Recently, OVES Enterprise has also successfully tested the AI (artificial intelligence) aspect in the case of drones, which are able, with the help of AI, to fly autonomously in closed spaces, for example, but also solutions for mounting mini solar panels, to increase autonomy or ways of using internal combustion engines, made of magnesium alloy, to reduce the weight of drones.
OVES Enterprise, established in 2015 in Cluj-Napoca, ended 2022 with a turnover of over RON27.6 million, up 125% on the year, as per publicly available data. At present, 80% of the company’s turnover is generated by projects outside Romania, which integrate new technologies in the field of AI and big data. OVES Enterprise currently has more than 200 employees and offices in Romania, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and the USA, added company officials.
Starting 2019, OVES’ strategy has been offering more complex software development services for projects in the fields of automotive, eCommerce, fintech, telecom, international government institutions. The company has become a technological partner for complex and technologically sophisticated projects.