When Jack Wu and John Hsu founded Nightingale Security in 2014, protecting premises with drones serving as eyes in the skies was pretty much off the radar for most commercial and industrial enterprises. Now, as Nightingale’s visionaries prepare to celebrate the company’s fifth anniversary in June, they’re also celebrating an innovation whose time has come.
Nightingale now ranks as the only robotic aerial security (RAS) enterprise serving several publicly traded Fortune 500 companies in North America. Its Blackbird drones, aptly named after the U.S Air Force’s SR-71 Blackbird, one of the most advanced surveillance aircrafts the U.S. has built, provide RAS for critical infrastructures. Some of the critical infrastructure applications include energy facilities spanning refineries and oil, gas, coal and nuclear plants; transportation systems; corporate locations; data centers; and large scale manufacturing, medical and agricultural research facilities. Nightingale considers RAS technology, which has been patented in the U.S. and other countries, to be a symbol of American innovation.