Successful delivery and installation of the Flox Hugin solution at FLOX’s 1st US customer base at Nelson Farms, Inc. & Silver Creek Farms Inc., located in Farmington in Washington state
The Hugin drone solution is designed to patrol land areas, identify potentially harmful wildlife and then repel them with tailor-made signaling in an animal-friendly way
This launches FLOX’s next chapter, entering the commercial test phase in the US, as a part of the market validation activities in Northern USA
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Jul. 29, 2022 (PRESS RELEASE) – FLOX, a startup that provides artificial intelligence equipped autonomous drones, announced Friday that it has expanded its commercial phase to the US market, as it delivered and installed its Hugin drone solution at FLOX’s first US customer Andrew Nelson, an innovative fifth generation farmer, who uses technology to keep his farm running and who had been suffering from wildlife damages from deer and elk. This marks the kickoff of FLOX’s commercial test phase on the US soil enabling FLOX to apply and further fine tune its technology across a multitude of different cultivated fields and young forest lands, while targeting a variety of wildlife species.
Landowner and farmer Andrew Nelson of Nelson Farms, Inc. & Silver Creek Farms Inc , based in Farmington, Washington state, who welcomed the delivery of Hugin, FLOX’s first ever commercial system on the US soil, commented: “I have been in touch with FLOX since early summer 2021 on a regular basis and now we are here – deploying their first ever commercial system in the US. FLOX will be vital to our wildlife management and monitoring, we are excited to be part of their first trial in the US.” Nelson is also working actively with FLOX, advising the team on the US agricultural market entry strategy including customer success and autonomous flight permissions.
