Two very different industries. The same underlying gap — nobody is watching the site continuously, autonomously and consistently.
Cockatoos, corellas, silvereyes and starlings cost Australian farmers hundreds of millions a year. Traditional deterrents gas cannons, scarecrows and netting provide diminishing returns as birds habituate within weeks, while netting alone costs $3,000–$8,000 per hectare to install and maintain.
Stockpile volumes, site progress and asset condition are still measured by manual walkovers or one-off manned flights infrequent, inconsistent between visits, and expensive to repeat often enough to actually act on.
DroneMate is a commercial drone platform developed in Australia by Skytronics Australia. It defines a shared autonomy architecture, ground-control software and support programme across a growing family of specialised aircraft — beginning with the DroneMate Bird Deterrent and the DroneMate Survey.
Every DroneMate airframe runs the same flight stack, positioning system and fleet software. Operators learn one system, maintain one workflow and carry their training, spares and data from one aircraft to the next.
DroneMate is the architecture that each Skytronics drone is built on. The autonomous bird deterrence uses this platform. The aerial survey drones use the same underlying platform. Each retains its own airframe, payload and specification sheet the platform is what they share, not the hardware itself.
Five capabilities, built once and inherited by every aircraft in the family, with no separate system to learn per drone.
Cockatoos, corellas, silvereyes and starlings cost Australian farmers hundreds of millions a year. Traditional deterrents gas cannons, scarecrows and netting provide diminishing returns as birds habituate within weeks, while netting alone costs $3,000–$8,000 per hectare to install and maintain.
Cockatoos, corellas, silvereyes and starlings cost Australian farmers hundreds of millions a year. Traditional deterrents gas cannons, scarecrows and netting provide diminishing returns as birds habituate within weeks, while netting alone costs $3,000–$8,000 per hectare to install and maintain.
Cockatoos, corellas, silvereyes and starlings cost Australian farmers hundreds of millions a year. Traditional deterrents gas cannons, scarecrows and netting provide diminishing returns as birds habituate within weeks, while netting alone costs $3,000–$8,000 per hectare to install and maintain.
Autonomous flights that protect vineyards, orchards and grain stores from bird damage, on a schedule that never habituates.
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Repeatable aerial capture for stockpile volumetrics, site progress and infrastructure inspection, processed in the cloud.
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The platform underneath DroneMate is shared, but each industry typically relies on one part of the product family more than another.
Orchards, vineyards and broadacre farms use the deterrent drone to deter cockatoos, corellas and starlings during ripening windows.
Silos, bunkers and grain stockpiles are patrolled to deter cockatoo and corella activity around storage sites.
Survey drones support stockpile volumetrics, site mapping and infrastructure inspection across mine sites and processing facilities.
Aerial inspection of assets such as pipelines, corridors and industrial sites using camera and thermal payloads.
Australian-based engineering and a non-China supply chain option matter for compliance-sensitive government procurement.
Cormorants, gulls and ibis roosting on jetties and boat decks are deterred without structural changes to marina infrastructure.
For product-specific questions, see the FAQ on each individual product page.
Skytronics makes DroneMate — Australia’s autonomous bird deterrent drone protecting farms, vineyards, orchards andgrain storage from bird damage. Based in Brookvale NSW 2100.
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