PALU is a young Italian technological Start-Up born specifically to develop this project, so ANGELS explains our mission, which is providing precise and cost-effective instrumental guidance solutions for Approach and Landing operations to helidecks in offshore platforms. Our vision is a bit more ambitious, though, as we want to become the de-facto standard instrumental solution to be installed by default in every helideck, helipad and small airport worldwide.
ANGELS is a high precision instrumental guidance system at the price of an optical guidance system, which makes use of standards and context aware customizable predictive software to increase the level of safety in Approach & Landing (A&L) operations. ANGELS focuses in Helicopters A&L operations to helidecks at offshore platforms, where poor visibility (optical guidance systems don’t help), complex glide paths (non straight line approaches), high density of obstacles and reduced space are common, and where decision makers (e.g. helidecks constructors, helicopter service companies) are sensitive to price and need cost-effective instrumental solutions.
In order to confirm the feasibility of our project, we, PALU, have carried out a 5-month study focusing our efforts on 3 main areas: (1) technically, our team has further evaluated and selected components for the ANGELS ecosystem and prepared a complete Execution Plan for the development and engineering of our solution, where we also have recruited the right partner to manufacture our systems; (2) commercially, we have consolidated our knowledge of the markets and competition to develop a strong marketing strategy, and have consolidated synergetic relations with valuable stakeholders, and developed an initial network of distributors and representatives; (3) financially, we have drafted detailed financial forecasts, on a 3-year-projection, and confirm the potential return on investment.
