Sweden’s Västra Götaland Area provides a fourth E3 base, extending Everdrone’s autonomous AED community to roughly 300,000 residents.
The Västra Götaland Area (VGR) is strengthening emergency healthcare in Borås with a brand new Everdrone medical drone base. The drone dispatches in response to emergency calls and delivers a defibrillator whereas ambulances are nonetheless en route.
Officers inaugurated the bottom on April 29, 2026. Operations start in early Might.
Borås Turns into the Fourth E3 Medical Drone Base
The brand new base sits on the service workplace in Pantängen. It should attain roughly 63,000 residents and prolong complete protection to round 300,000 individuals throughout Västra Götaland.
“The bottom in Borås has been strategically situated based mostly on evaluation of inhabitants density, earlier emergency incidents, and airspace availability,” mentioned Daniel Blecher, Head of Buyer Operations at Everdrone.
The positioning turns into the fourth deployment of Everdrone’s new-generation E3 drone. Earlier protection from Dronelife reported the E3 carries as much as 4.5 kilograms of payload and cruises above 80 km/h, greater than doubling the earlier E2 platform’s capability.
Slicing Cardiac Arrest Response Occasions
Everdrone’s autonomous drone system targets out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the place each minute counts. Ambulances in Sweden common about ten minutes to achieve an emergency scene, whereas the drone arrives in below three.
“In circumstances of cardiac arrest, fast cardiopulmonary resuscitation and entry to a defibrillator are vital for survival – each minute counts. Whereas ready for an ambulance, Everdrone’s new drone can arrive in below three minutes carrying a defibrillator,” mentioned Magnus Hallberg von Geijer, COO at Everdrone.
The Metropolis of Borås hosted a press demonstration of the system on April 29. The Västra Götaland Area leads the mission in collaboration with Karolinska Institutet and Everdrone.
The E3 is engineered for the Nordic local weather. It operates in chilly, snow, rain, and wind, and affords longer vary and better speeds than its predecessor.
Everdrone’s work has appeared in The Lancet and The New England Journal of Drugs. The Gothenburg-based firm turned the primary to save lots of a life utilizing an autonomous drone, and now runs pilot packages throughout Europe.
Extra info is obtainable at Everdrone.
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Ian McNabb is a journalist specializing in drone expertise and way of life content material at Dronelife. He’s based mostly between Boston and NH and, when not writing, enjoys mountaineering and Boston space sports activities.
