Hello World! We Are Volacom and We Protect Birds and Businesses!

On 22 May 2012, Volacom AD, a European hi-tech engineering and manufacturing start-up was incorporated. The company will focus on inventing, designing, and producing technologically advanced, automated bird control solutions operating with thermal imaging allowing for detection of birds 24/7, in all weather conditions. Deterrence will happen through an acoustic module designed to emit a specific signal, developed in-house by our own acoustic engineers. Experiments have confirmed that the signal invokes a physical reflex in birds called an Acoustic Startle Reflex (ASR), which does not allow them to habituate to it – a main shortfall of existing acoustic-based repellent systems.

The system’s commercial name will be Bird Collision Avoidance System (BCAS) and will use a custom-built detection software solution, providing for detection of larger species at more than 1 km ranges.

The main target groups are airports, where bird strikes may potentially lead to loss of human lives, and wind farms, where turbine blades are endangering the lives of avian species, especially protected ones in remote areas. The system is also applicable at industrial rooftops and off-shore oil & gas facilities where bird-related contamination results in hefty cleaning bills and operational disturbances.

We believe existing bird control solutions world-wide to be obsolete and inefficient. We have not seen any bird control system developed based on scientific research and decided to take on that path. Our solutions rely on findings of our own research and experiments and we consider them unique and likely the most technologically advanced such for bird control in the world today.