Inspections
UAV-Based Remote Water Sampling System from SPH Engineering
SPH Engineering has introduced the Remote Water Sampling System, a new UAV-based solution within UgCS Integrated Systems product line.
Inspections
Inspections
Gas Leak Detection with Drones to Reduce Methane Emissions
The gas network operator MITNETZ GAS from eastern Germany has to check the tightness of around 3,500 km of gas pipelines every year. Gas leaks have devastating consequences: Not only the gas supply then no longer can be guaranteed, but the climate-damaging gas methane escapes. To reduce methane emissions,
Inspections
Cleo Robotics Launches Rugged Indoor Drone
Cleo Robotics, the first company to successfully develop a stable and highly maneuverable ducted bi-rotor drone, announces the availability of the Dronut X1 for law-enforcement, industrial inspection, construction and defense markets. Cleo’s patented thrust vectoring technology has, for the first time ever, made the hyper-efficient ducted fan design stable
Inspections
Percepto's New Drone with AI-Powered Analytics for Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring platform
Percepto, pioneering autonomous inspection with industrial robotics, announced the launch of its upgraded 2022 Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring (AIM) platform and its new Air Mobile drone. Recently listed in TIME magazine's 100 Best Inventions of 2021, Percepto offers the only end-to-end solution powered by AI to collate and
Inspections
Ukrainian Electric Co Digitizes Network with Drones and AI
DTEK Grids, an operating holding that develops electricity distribution business in Ukraine. DTEK Grids DSOs are serving 5.6 million connections. DTEK Grids is equipping its DSOs’ inspection teams with drones and analyzing power lines in a specialized platform. Through investments into innovative solutions they have been able to upgrade
Construction
Acecore Technologies Zoe Zetona Features New Payload Optimization
Acecore Technologies, a manufacturer of professional grade UAVs for data collection and surveillance markets, introduces a new commercial UAV: the Zoe Zetona
Commercial
Drones to Monitor Sydney’s 27 Km Water Pipeline
Keeping Sydney supplied with water means watching over many kilometres of pipeline. Thanks to drones and great troves of data, this company is making that task easier. The biggest city in Australia gets 80 per cent of its water delivered through two pipes running above ground from a dam created
Commercial
Swiss Drones Succeeds Power Line Inspection Challenge in France
SwissDrones has successfully delivered the requested results (highest-resolution images of defects captured in a continuous fly-by) in a recent challenge of the French power-line operator RTE. The company thanked Réseau de Transport d'Électricité as well as partners Phase One and GGS Solutions for their positive contribution collaboration to
Testing
Gas Pipeline Inspections Simulated in Final NASA SIO Demonstration
Aerial inspections of gas and petroleum pipelines were simulated during NASA’s final Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) demonstration flight with partner American Aerospace Technologies Inc. (AATI) on Feb. 25, 2021. The SIO demonstration series is in partnership with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and three industry partners to show
Commercial
Estonian Startup Raises €2M for Drone-Based Power Line Inspections
Hepta Airborne , a Talinn, Estonia-based provider of end-to-end inspection and analysis tools for energy asset managers, announced completing a funding round of €2 million ($2.4M). The money was raised from investors led by SpeedUp Group and EIT InnoEnergy, along with previous investors, Contrarian Ventures, Expansion Capital, Thorgate Ventures, and
Commercial
Shell Gets Value from Unmanned Systems
Most UAS applications in Shell have two things in common: they are done by third-party service providers and they take place within the visual line of sight.
BVLOS
American Aerospace Completes BVLOS UAS Pipeline Patrol Operation for NASA
American Aerospace Technology Inc’s AiRanger (formerly the Resolute Eagle) unmanned aircraft system (UAS/drone) successfully completed a demonstration flight on February 25 as part of NASA’s Systems Integration and Operationalization (SIO) activities. The objective of the AiRanger demonstration was to tackle key challenges to enable routine commercial UAS