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PAWAAC (Pilotless Airborne Warning and Control System) is building autonomous surveillance drones in India for India's security, public safety, and monitoring challenges. Our vision is to create a world-class autonomous aerial intelligence platform designed, developed, and manufactured in India for deployment across India and global markets. India has over 6 lakh villages, more than 15,000 km of international land borders, over 11,000 km of coastline, thousands of kilometres of railway and highway corridors, and critical assets ranging from power plants and oil pipelines to defence installations and industrial zones. Monitoring these vast and diverse areas using manpower alone is expensive, resource-intensive, and often impossible to sustain 24×7. Police forces, border security agencies, disaster response teams, forest departments, and infrastructure operators are expected to monitor enormous geographic areas with limited personnel and resources. As security challenges grow and infrastructure expands, India requires scalable, indigenous surveillance technologies that can provide persistent situational awareness without significantly increasing manpower requirements. PAWAAC addresses this challenge through autonomous drones that require minimal human intervention. Instead of manually piloting an aircraft, an operator simply defines the mission objective, and the drone autonomously plans, executes, monitors, and completes the mission. This enables a single operator to monitor large areas that would otherwise require multiple personnel and vehicles on the ground. Our flagship eVTOL surveillance drone can fly for up to 2 hours on a single charge, cover up to 120 km in a mission, and monitor over 20 square kilometres in a single deployment. The platform is equipped with a 30x zoom camera providing real-time aerial intelligence and is being integrated with an AI-powered vision system capable of automatically identifying unusual activities and generating alerts for operators. Since inception, we have successfully designed, built, and tested our autonomous surveillance platform, secured over ₹28 lakh worth of drone sales to defence and military training organizations, and built a sales pipeline exceeding ₹1 crore. We are actively engaging with police, defence, and government stakeholders for operational deployments and long-term adoption of autonomous surveillance systems. The founding team combines expertise in drone hardware, autonomous systems, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, and government partnerships. Kshitij Pandey, Co-founder, has been involved in technology development and research since his school days. In 2015, he was invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his work was recognized nationally. He contributed to the development of the Google Air View environmental monitoring sensor system and has helped establish technology and research infrastructure for multiple organizations and startups. At PAWAAC, he leads strategy, partnerships, deployments, and business development. Anant, Co-founder, is a DGCA-certified drone pilot with more than 8 years of experience building and operating drones. He has developed numerous UAV platforms and has worked extensively with Army and NCC units, conducting drone training and operational programs. He leads hardware development, flight testing, and manufacturing efforts at PAWAAC. Bhavesh Meghwal, Co-founder, is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from IIT BHU and leads the development of autonomous systems, flight software, and mission-control technologies that power PAWAAC's drone platform. Our advisory network includes experienced industry leaders such as Vish Narayan, IIT BHU (1983) alumnus and former Global Supply Chain Executive at General Motors, and Satya Viswanathan, former Head of Research and Development at Intel, along with other senior leaders from engineering, manufacturing, and technology backgrounds. PAWAAC's long-term goal is to build a globally competitive autonomous aerial intelligence company from India. We believe that the next generation of surveillance and security technologies should not be imported into India but designed, engineered, and manufactured here, creating high-value technology products that can be deployed across the world while strengthening India's position as a leader in advanced aerospace and autonomous systems.

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Startup Teams

• 1 Kshitij Pandey (Founder)
• 2 Anant Pandey (Founder)

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