Aerial LED gentle platforms remedy challenges with right this moment’s transportable lighting options by changing gentle masts with tethered UAVs
— Rob Schumann, CEO, Blue Vigil
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, September 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Virginia Venture Partners, the fairness funding program of Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC), right this moment introduced an funding in Blue Vigil. Reston, Va.- primarily based Blue Vigil is the U.S. business chief in tether energy methods for business drones, which give limitless flight time for steady flights. Blue Vigil will use this funding to develop a prototype and execute a beta program for a brand new Aerial LED (ALED) drone-based lighting platform.
Portable lights used to illuminate work websites right this moment are massive, heavy and harmful. They have to be towed into place, typically ensuing in suboptimal positioning. The gentle supply additionally sits atop a mast which is virtually restricted to 25-30 toes in peak. This mixture of poor positioning and low mast peak directs intense gentle throughout a piece web site at a low angle, creating harmful glare that impacts staff, drivers and pedestrians. Blue Vigil’s ALED transportable lighting platform solves this downside by changing the sunshine mast with a tethered UAV, illuminating the world from above and eliminating harmful glare and shadows.
“Traditional man-portable stands lack adequate luminosity, while towable lights lack portability; both can lead to dangerous glare and devastating outcomes. By employing the use of LED panels and tethered UAVs, our highly-portable solution provides more usable light than existing products on the market,” says Rob Schumann, CEO. “We are thrilled to expand into this market and grow our product line, and we thank VIPC’s Virginia Venture Partners for their support.”
Leveraging its current drone energy tether expertise, Blue Vigil’s ALED transportable lighting platform locations a high-intensity, drone-mounted LED panel 75-100 toes above the specified space. In addition, the ALED is packaged in a rugged, man-portable case that enables the sunshine to be optimally positioned. At one tenth the scale and weight of conventional transportable gentle towers, the ALED additionally gives main operational and fleet administration benefits over present transportable lighting merchandise at a comparable value level.
“With a management team of multiple professionals holding decades of experience in UAV, manufacturing and distribution businesses, Blue Vigil is well positioned to design a solution that will address these critical lighting problems across the board,” says Tom Weithman, VIPC Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director of Virginia Venture Partners. “This innovative solution is unique in today’s market, and we are thrilled to contribute to its success.”
About Blue Vigil
Blue Vigil is the U.S. business chief in tether energy methods for drones. The firm has designed a reactive spool tether system that connects to most off-the-shelf drones. Blue Vigil was based and is managed by a crew of pilots and UAV specialists in 2015, in partnership with a Harrisonburg, Virginia Investor Group, and James Madison University. For extra info, go to https://www.bluevigil.com/.
About Virginia Venture Partners
Virginia Venture Partners, previously CIT GAP Funds, is the fairness funding program of VIPC that makes seed-stage fairness investments in Virginia-based expertise, clear power, and life science corporations with a excessive potential for attaining fast progress and producing a major financial return for entrepreneurs, co-investors, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Since its inception in 2005, Virginia Venture Partners has deployed $32.4 million in capital throughout greater than 250 portfolio corporations, together with 17 corporations in designated Opportunity Zones. Virginia Venture Partners’ funding selections are guided by the Virginia Venture Partners Investment Advisory Board (IAB). This unbiased, third-party panel has drawn from the experience of main regional entrepreneurs, angel, and strategic traders, and enterprise capital corporations corresponding to New Enterprise Associates, Grotech Ventures, Harbert Venture Partners HIG Ventures, Edison Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Intersouth Partners, SJF Ventures, Carilion Health Systems, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, and Alpha Natural Resources. For extra info, please go to www.virginiaipc.org/vvp.
About Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC)
Connecting innovators with alternatives. The nonprofit operations arm of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority (VIPA), VIPC is the commercialization and seed stage financial growth driver in the Commonwealth that leads funding, infrastructure, and coverage initiatives to assist Virginia’s innovators, entrepreneurs, startups, and market growth methods. VIPC collaborates with native, regional, state, and federal companions to assist the enlargement and diversification of Virginia’s economy.
Programs embody: Virginia Venture Partners (VVP) | Virginia Founders Fund (VFF) |Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) | Smart Communities | Unmanned Systems | Public Safety Innovation |Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | Regional Innovation Fund (RIF) | Federal Funding Assistance Program (FFAP) for SBIR & STTR | University Partnerships | Startup Company Mentoring & Engagement. For extra info, please go to www.VirginiaIPC.org. Follow VIPC on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
Angela Costello, Vice President of Communications
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC)
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