The 180-day ride of Primis Group. The story, insights, errors and learnings of a high-tech company challenging the status quo with a revolutionary approach to aerial data

2. August 2018. One of the largest bridges in Italy
collapsed causing many deaths and interrupting
one of the main roadways connecting Italy and
France. Our pilots had the technology and skills to
support data retrieval for structural assessment.

3. The fires of 2017

4. August 2017. We showed up at the Italian
Chamber of Deputies to share a high tech
solution for fire prevention, detection and
management.

5. October 2017. We were awarded Green Pride
2017 at the Italian Senate.

6. The team
Pietro Gorgazzini | Ceo
Founder at smallfish.com &
PirañaFilms.com
Alan Torrisi | Cto
Software Engineer specialized
in high efficiency algorithms
Giacomo Parlanti| Coo
Aerospace Engineer and
commercial flight pilot

7. DAAS
Through a “drone as-a-service” model, Primis
Group combines software, hardware and
distributed operations allowing companies
and institutions to instantly access military
standard technologies with little to no effort!

8. Field Operations
Our pilots cover the entire territory, and
our model is easily extendable to other
countries thanks to our app.

9. Processing Team
Data often need specific extractions and
elaborations, we’ve hired and trained a
team of engineers to provide full
support to turn point clouds into
whatever output clients need.

10. Primis Live®
Our cloud 3d platform that can load
1B+ point clouds on a smartphone with
3/4g connection, makes it videogame
easy to work with data from drone
acquisitions.

11. The fleet
M200/10
Top multi rotor drone
supporting all sensors, from
thermal camera to rgb and
multispectral. 100% water proof.
M600
Multi rotor for heavy equipment
allowing to carry significant
payloads such as aerial lidar.
Primis P6
Proprietary hexacopter
that can be customized
for critical missions.

12. Rgb
Acquiring high quality
images from 16 to 24 mpx
mainly used for
aerophotogrammetry.
Thermal
Mixed sensor matching rgb
and thermal data for max
accuracy. Based on Flir Tau 2
for a 640x512 resolution.
Multispectral
Used to measure visible light
bands (RGB) and most of the
non-visible range (NIR).
Military Sensors

13. With our videogame-like interface engineers can
easily check with some simple tools changes on
large infrastructures.

14. Large dams need to be inspected frequently with
high precision and objective data that can be
compared with future acquisitions monitoring the
evolution of dangerous phenomenon like cracks
and infiltrations.

15. Measuring exactly material dug from a quarry
either for official statements or production control
with absolute accuracy. We can also measure rock
integrity and support planning explosive.

16. BIM/IoT on building sites, instantly comparing as-
built 3D Cad models with high density point
clouds. We provide aerial support to acquire
thermal, telemetry, lidar data and more.

17. Linear asset inspections can be much more
accurate and way faster using UAVs, this will also
provide an objective state of the art dataset for
future comparison.

18. Inspecting piping for predictive maintenance
through thermal sensors is a good way to spot
cracks, but also areas that could let fluids escape
soon if not fixed in time.

19. Most electric lines/components damages can be
easily spotted though thermals sensors.

20. Large solar plants need frequent inspection for a
number of damaging phenomena. A UAV
equipped with several different sensors, can detect
multiple issues with a single flight!

21. Windmills need visual inspection quite often to
spot signs of erosion and other issues.

22. Tilt and azimuth can be easily checked though
aerial telemetry, yet for now UAVs can only detect
the exact degree or run a visual inspection, there is
no way at the moment to have the UAV fixing the
issue (screwing/unscrewing stuff and so on..)

23. Precision farming is definitely not a breakthrough,
yet many farmers in Europe don’t have the
necessary training and resources to get started.
We can provide a valuable support as-a-service for
multispectral analysis!

24. Milestones

25. February 2018. We became the main attraction
at the largest construction fair in Italy we’ve
attended as national TeamSystem BIM partners.

26. March 2018. We were invited to hold a TEDx
Speech sharing Primis unique business model of
financing social impact through local UAV
operations.

27. April 2018. Open Italy gathers IoT leaders of
some of the largest companies in Italy. Each one
of them has to select an outstanding innovation
they had the chance to either test or simply meet.
We were among the top 10.

28. June 2018. Vodafone (Global) presented our
partnership in Rome

29. Q4 2018. We’re opening offices in the Balkans,
Switzerland and a new R&D hub in Trento

30. Gravity is overrated.