- What is wedrone?
- wedrone is the drone unit of werob, a brand of CITO GmbH. wedrone takes drone applications from use case to routine operation: inspection, logistics, surveillance, agriculture, construction, medical and lab transport, sports and defense. Delivery happens together with specialised partners from a manufacturer-independent network.
- Which industries does wedrone serve?
- wedrone covers thirteen target industries: healthcare/medical/labs, logistics, security/surveillance, defense/public agencies, sports/broadcast, agriculture, construction/real estate, industrial inspection/maintenance, delivery/last mile, environment/climate/water (including wildfire early detection, water management and cloud seeding with partners), infrastructure (bridges, roads, power lines, dams, tunnels, wind and solar), offshore/maritime (blades, towers, platforms), and mining/quarrying (stockpile volumetrics, blast monitoring, tailings).
- Does wedrone sell its own drones?
- No. Like werob, wedrone is manufacturer-independent: we specify the task, match the right system from a network of drone manufacturers, operators and service providers, and integrate it into your processes and systems.
- How does a wedrone project work?
- In four steps: (1) describe the use case in a few sentences, (2) structure regulation and the approval path, including EU regulation 2019/947, (3) match partners and systems from the network, (4) pilot operation and transition into routine service with a mission cockpit.
- Does wedrone handle approvals and regulation?
- wedrone structures the regulatory path (open/specific/certified category, risk assessment, BVLOS) and works with specialised partners and operators for the proceedings. Responsibilities stay clear and the road to approval stays plannable.
- What are wedrone landing pads?
- wedrone plans, builds and operates drone landing pads in three variants: Pad Home for private households (parcel reception), Pad Business for companies and multi-site networks (airborne goods receipt, spare-part express) and Pad Med for hospitals and labs (temperature-controlled, documented hand-over). Every pad extends the delivery network.
- Which business models does wedrone offer?
- Six models: Drone-as-a-Service (missions per flight or on subscription), drone-in-a-box (docked stations with automated flights), landing pads and delivery networks as infrastructure, medical logistics networks, data and digital-twin products from inspection flights, and drone-as-first-responder for security providers.
- What does wedrone do in environment, climate and water?
- wedrone coordinates drone-based applications for environmental and climate resilience: wildfire early detection via thermography, drought and water monitoring, environmental survey flights, and coordinating cloud seeding (precipitation enhancement). wedrone does not operate cloud seeding itself but integrates and manages delivery together with specialised partners, strictly within applicable regulation.
- What does wedrone do in infrastructure?
- wedrone flies critical transport and energy infrastructure: bridge soffits and girders, road corridors, power lines and pylons, dam faces, tunnel portals, wind-turbine blades and solar arrays via thermography. The point is repeatability: the same route, the same waypoints, the same angles on every pass, so individual findings become a trend. Germany alone carries 40,264 bridge structures on its federal trunk roads (BASt, March 2026), around 37,900 km of extra-high-voltage transmission lines (BNetzA, end of 2024) and 30,906 wind turbines (end of 2025).
- Does a drone survey replace the statutory bridge inspection?
- No. The inspection under DIN 1076 is carried out by a qualified engineer, and a drone does not change that. The survey provides the routine capture between inspection dates and the imagery for hard-to-reach areas, so the engineer arrives with a documented trend rather than a blank sheet. It does not replace an inspection; it shortens the window in which nobody is looking.
- Who is behind wedrone?
- wedrone is operated by werob, a brand of CITO GmbH (Munich register court, HRB 214036), operating from Hamburg. Contact: info@werob.de.