- Avion leverages autonomous drones to deliver critical medical supplies and vaccines to remote areas, ensuring timely healthcare access.
- Avion focuses on regions with challenging terrains and limited infrastructure, providing a reliable aerial network.
- The company is led by Brook Ayalneh, who drives Avion's mission to revolutionize healthcare delivery using cutting-edge drone technology.
Technological advancements are revolutionizing various industries across the globe like never witnessed before. Taking in the most of this revolution is the healthcare sector, which is undergoing a significant transformation.
Avion is at the forefront of this revolution bridging the gap between healthcare providers and patients in remote areas.
Pioneering Autonomous Aerial Networks for Healthcare
The healthcare industry has struggled in its outreach to remote areas and underserved communities.
With mostly unreliable methods of access, which are often time-consuming and expensive, new logistics that would surpass these drawbacks to bring about a reliable source of access were overdue.
With an autonomous network of drones, Avion is utilizing autonomous aerial networks to deliver medical supplies and vaccines.
With a solution that is not just innovative, but crucial in regions lacking infrastructure, the company ensures that essential medical supplies reach their destination quickly and efficiently, regardless of the geographical terrain.
The drones are hybrid and can vertically take off with the capability to deliver medicine and vaccinations that weigh 5 kg up to distances of 150 km.
Tied to a centralized hub, the drones are manufactured to deliver packages with long and medium-ranged medical drones.
The Vision and Passion that Conceived Avion
Avion was founded by Brook Ayalneh and Bezawit Alemu, whose expertise in the industry equips them to navigate complex challenges in the field of healthcare and technology.
With almost six years of market domination since its establishment in 2018, this Ethiopian company has successfully set up distribution nodes with minimal infrastructure, thus enabling clients to have an unmanned aerial delivery network.
It is the vision of Ayalneh to create a system that could operate autonomously, with zero human error, yet with reliability and a faster pace, that conceived Avion.
Besides connecting remote cities with labs and pharmacies in cities, Avion also offers a digital health platform enabling remote diagnosis and delivery of medicine.
The Technology Behind Avion
With a sophisticated technology stack that combines drone engineering, software development, and data analytics the drones are designed to carry various payloads, ranging from small packages, such as vaccines, to larger medicinal supplies.
Consisting of a feature to monitor every real-time movement, Avion's control centers ensure that the data gets fed back and forth, with precision on every delivery proceeded as planned.
With traditional delivery methods failing on not just the reliability, but also scalability of the reach, Avion stakes a claim with its services that offer scalability, thereby being able to analyze the reachability of the materials transported.
This also means that as the company grows and takes on more customers, its technology can adapt to handle the increased volume without sacrificing speed or reliability.
This scalability is crucial for businesses that need to deliver large quantities of packages, as it ensures that Avion can meet their needs without breaking a sweat.
Aids, Accessibility, and Avion
The innovative approach that has elevated the healthcare sector has amassed much attention and has helped the company secure significant funding.
Avion has secured a total of $4.7 million in funding in over 2 rounds with the latest seeding round on August 8, 2023. Being backed and funded by Y Combinator, this supply chain management company is assisting and transforming the healthcare sector through its robust and efficient solutions.
The first phase of the operation will include six city stations with 24 drones and an average of 120 daily flights and 2600 flights monthly, these flights will reach more than 2000 health centers that do not have access to medical supplies.
Avion continues to expand its network, striving to improve its technology and transform both the logistics and healthcare sectors.
Edited By Annette George
