Petar Vojinovic
Published on: September 15, 2025
From growing up in rural Rajasthan where access to urgent medicine was uncertain, to leading one of India’s pioneering drone technology companies, Vikram Singh Meena, Founder & CEO of TECHEAGLE, has turned a bold vision into reality. In this interview with SafetyDetectives, he shares how TECHEAGLE is transforming healthcare, logistics, and public safety through reliable and affordable drone-based aerial autonomy.
What inspired you to launch TECHEAGLE, and how has the company evolved since its inception?
I grew up in rural Rajasthan where healthcare was often a matter of luck. If antivenom, blood, or urgent medicines did not arrive in time, people lost their lives. At IIT Kanpur I realized drones could erase that gap. They could fly over bad roads, broken bridges, floods, or mountains and make geography irrelevant. That idea became TECHEAGLE in 2017.
We started small, building and flying prototypes, even delivering the world’s first cup of tea by drone in 2018. From there, we moved quickly into solving serious problems. Today, TECHEAGLE has flown more than one million kilometres in Beyond Visual Line of Sight conditions. We have delivered over 100,000 consignments, including more than 10,000 cold-chain shipments of vaccines, insulin, and other temperature-sensitive products, with zero reported temperature failures. Our corridors now cover over one million people directly. In Meghalaya, we built India’s first state-integrated healthcare drone grid. In Assam, we executed Asia’s longest healthcare drone corridor with AIIMS Guwahati, covering 62 miles. With Apollo Hospitals, we demonstrated ten-minute diagnostic deliveries in dense cities. The journey has been about proving drones are not experiments, but infrastructure.
In what ways does TECHEAGLE distinguish itself in autonomous drone solutions for logistics, healthcare, and defense?
Most global companies in this field are still testing suburban last-mile drops. TECHEAGLE is already running BVLOS corridors day and night in Himalayan valleys, in flood-prone plains, and in desert heat. These are some of the toughest environments in the world, and we operate in them at scale.
We stand apart in three ways. First, we build the full sovereign stack. Vertiplane drones carry 4.4 to 11 pounds over 62 miles. Our CargoPods maintain 2 to 8 °C, −20 °C, or −70 °C for medicines, blood, and organs. Our software EagleOS and FleetOS integrate with hospitals, regulators, and fleet managers. Second, security and compliance are built in from day one. Every flight is geofenced, every command link is encrypted, and every update is signed. We run dual 4G and 5G with RF fallback, return-to-home logic, and auto-terminate zones. Mission telemetry and patient data follow zero-trust principles, and every package movement is auditable. Third, we have cracked affordability. Our repetitive corridor flights already deliver consignments at under one US dollar each. That price point changes everything, because it makes aerial autonomy accessible for public health systems and not just premium use cases.
Can you describe your strategy for ensuring reliable and scalable BVLOS drone operations across diverse terrains and conditions?
Our strategy is to design for Bharat first and then scale to the world. Bharat gives you every challenge in one geography: high-altitude mountains, monsoons, deserts, and megacities. If your system works here, it will work anywhere.
We use a hub-and-spoke model. Large hospitals or distribution centres act as hubs, while Primary Health Centres and Community Health Centres act as spokes. This creates steady demand and predictable utilization. Reliability comes from redundancy: dual batteries, dual links, return-to-home logic, and automated go/no-go protocols. Every package flies with a data logger and tamper-evident seal. Every site follows strict SOPs aligned with Good Distribution Practices.
Scalability comes from automation. FleetOS allows one team to manage dozens of routes at once with predictive maintenance and real-time dashboards. We are not just flying drones—we are building a system that regulators, doctors, and patients can trust because it is repeatable and auditable.
How has TECHEAGLE’s technology been adapted to serve critical sectors like healthcare deliveries, urban logistics, and public safety?
Healthcare is where our technology shows its impact most clearly. We deliver vaccines, insulin, oncology medicines, plasma, and diagnostic samples in validated CargoPods. We have completed over 10,000 cold-chain missions without a single reported temperature excursion.
In urban logistics, our work with Apollo Hospitals proves diagnostics that once took hours in traffic now arrive in minutes. With India Post, we demonstrated drone mail. With Sitics Logistics, we secured a 100-drone order for autonomous fleets.
For public safety, our First Responder drones have supported disaster authorities in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In the first 72 hours after a landslide or flood, drones can be the only way to move oxygen, antibiotics, or relief kits. The same platforms are now under evaluation for defense, both for ISR and tactical logistics. This dual-use adaptability is built into our stack.
What are your key aspirations for TECHEAGLE’s future as drone-based aerial autonomy advances across industries?
Our aspiration is universal and equitable access. By 2030, we want to connect more than 100 tertiary hospitals and 10,000 Primary Health Centres across Bharat. That means a villager in Assam or Uttarakhand gets insulin in 30 minutes, the same as a patient in Delhi.
We also plan to expand internationally to Africa, GCC, and Southeast Asia, proving that low-cost BVLOS technology designed for Bharat can solve access gaps in other emerging regions. In defense, our ISR and logistics drones will strengthen sovereignty and resilience.
The long-term vision is that aerial logistics becomes a dependable public utility. What UPI did for payments in Bharat, TECHEAGLE will do for access to healthcare, essentials, and security. It is not just about drones—it is about building the next layer of infrastructure in the sky.
