Founders Abiseka Akash pitching Okulo Aerospace – as Startup that is building solar-powered drones and pseudo-satellites to revolutionize aerial monitoring for oil and gas pipeline operators.
website:www.okuloaerospace.com
“Our solar electric drones can fly continuously at least 5 times longer that current drones in the market. This allows for 4 times more frequent monitoring of pipelines than current methods thereby helping in reducing the cases of illegal pipeline tampering and losses in revenue and damages incurred. Currently we have completed our initial designs and simulations for our drone, are in the process of signing Letter of Intents for pilot projects with the biggest pipeline operators in the country and are raising funds to build our initial prototype,” says Abiseka.
Founders:
Abiseka Akash, Co-Founder & CEO
M.S., Sustainable Energy Technologies, TU Delft, Netherlands
B.E, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, Chennai
Ex Student researcher, TU Delft, Applied Sciences Faculty on Quantum dot solar cells technology for 1.5 years, Project Engineer at VA Tech Wabag a clean water
technology company for 1 year
Parithi Govindaraju, Co-Founder & CTO
PhD., Aerospace Engineering, Purdue University, U.S.A
B. Tech, Mechanical Engineering, NIT-Trichy
Ex Sr. Research Scientist at United Technologies Corporation for 2 years, Project researcher on projects with NASA, USAF and FAA. for 5 years
