Heico Kühn is a well-travelled aviation professional, who spent nearly eight years as Chief Operating Officer at remote sensing company The iGlobe Group, before joining UAV and Drone Solutions (UDS) in the same capacity in August in 2023.

Heico has been in aviation a few more years longer than he has worked with drone technology; and with this, he has the experience of understanding spatial data acquisition and analysis to boast of.

With UDS, Heico’s workload at the company with the biggest drone fleet in the country is drone applications in the security industry.

The company aerial surveillance in environments where safety and security is paramount and specialises in providing aerial security surveillance operations that is aimed at deterrence and detection of criminal activity.

“Our trained flight crew communicate and guide ground security to ensure information gathering and effective arrests. Improved situational awareness through drone surveillance, not only assists in apprehending criminals but also serves to protect the security on the ground,” UDS says.

In addition to security surveillance, with an in-house GIS team, UDS provides survey and inspection services for various industries.