Drone Inspections

National Grid Drones Automated Corrosion Inspection

National Grid Drones: company trials automated corrosion inspection of transmission pylons, By DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is conducting a trial of a system intended to fully automate the capture and processing of corrosion-related condition assessment data. The system, born out of a collaboration …

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Optelos and FlyGuys Partner: Turnkey Data Collection

Optelos Partners with FlyGuys for Turnkey Data Collection by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby Optelos and FlyGuys have announced a partnership that will bring together FlyGuy’s nationwide drone data collection network and Optelos visual data management, 2D/3D modeling and inspection analytics capabilities in order to build a turnkey data …

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BVLOS Waiver for Inspections Soaring Eagle

Soaring Eagle Technologies has received another FAA Certificate of Authorization.  This BVLOS Waiver enables more efficient inspections. Soaring Eagle Technologies, is a leading drone data collection company working with critical infrastructure companies across the U.S.  Having completed over 60 large scale BVLOS missions across the U.S under SGI (special government interest) waivers,the …

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Drones for Residential Solar: Sunrun and DroneDeploy

Gray Watson, CC BY-SA 3.0  Using drones for residential solar: DroneDeploy software allows Sunrun to conduct roof inspection without risk to workers By Jim Magill Drone technology is spurring the growth of another innovative industry, the residential solar power industry. Beginning in 2019, Sunrun, the leading home solar system installer …

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Digital Twins and Turnarounds Optelos CEO David Tran

Saving Time, Reducing Risk: Using Digital Twins to Optimize Turnarounds  Enterprise companies are inundated with digital data: from aerial images to ground-based walkthroughs, companies have more information available to them than ever before. But is all of this data helping the bottom line? At the Energy Drone and Robotics Summit …

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Residential Solar Surveys with Drones Oblique Imagery

2. Better detect small obstructions Pointing a camera straight down negatively impacts detecting small obstructions, like vent pipes and attic fans, because the verticality of those objects aren’t effectively modelled. Missing obstructions in your modelling can derail a solar project by forcing a redesign, delaying an install, or negatively impacting …

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Clobotics, industrial drone solution provider, raises $30 M

Seattle, Shanghai and Denmark based technology platform Clobotics has announced a  $30MM capital raise. “Clobotics announced today that the company has completed its Series Pre-B-4 capital raise and received an additional $30 million of investment towards its goal of “turning sight into insight” for customers in the wind and retail …

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Optelos DSP Inspector Program Proves Value of Partners

Drone service providers need drone data management – and they need to keep finding new customers.  The Optelos DSP Inspector™ Program is designed to meet those needs, in a partnership that helps both parties to grow. As the drone industry grows, Drone Service Providers (DSPs) offer crucial services for the …

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Dual Sensor Technology from Visual Intelligence

Visual Intelligence provides patented dual sensor technology combined with software and analytics to deliver millimeter-class drone data.  Now, through a new partnership, inspection specialists ARE will deliver rail and utility engineering services based on the newly enabled solution. There is no doubt that drone technology has become an important tool for …

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DRONELIFE Exclusive: How Drones Will Change Power Line Strin…

Image Provided by SkySkopes Drones have been used in the power industry for a few years now, but in the U.S., power line stringing is a relatively new application.  It’s an application that offers massive cost and time savings – and is one that could permanently change the way power …

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