infrastructure

Vertiport Automation Brent Klavon ANRA Op-Ed

Can Urban Air Mobility thrive without better infrastructure?  In this Op-Ed, Brent Klavon discusses the urgent need for vertiport automation. The following guest post is an original op-ed from Brent Klavon, Vice President at ANRA Technologies.  DRONELIFE neither makes nor accepts payment for guest posts. Are Vertiports the Weakest Link in …

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DJI’s AeroScope Passes Evalutation by UK’s National Infrastr…

The UK has had its fair share of drone-related disruption, most notably with the grounding of flights across several days at London’s Gatwick airport – around this time last year. Ever since, the UK government has been grappling with the issue of drone misuse. New legislation has been passed enforcing …

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DJI Partner Heliguy Awarded Contract With Major UK Rail Oper…

UK-based Heliguy, one of DJI’s largest European enterprise partners and distributors, has been awarded a nationwide contract with Network Rail as part of a drone services framework worth up to £2.6million. Heliguy will supply, maintain, repair and service Network Rail’s drones, as well as delivering training courses to the infrastructure …

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Transurban: Using Drones To Maintain Roads & Bridges Down Un…

Australian transport infrastructure company Transurban has released a video outlining how their drone fleet is supporting construction, maintenance and inspection operations. Transurban operates infrastructure in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, as well as roads in North America, in Montreal and Greater Washington. The company’s maintenance teams have been using drones to …

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New Research Report on Five Business Lessons about Drone Ins…

Guest put up by Colin Snow — Drone inspection – Shutterstock We simply launched a brand new analysis report titled “Five Valuable Business Lessons About Drones in Asset and Infrastructure Inspection” This is the fourth in a sequence of white papers supposed to share classes realized in particular industries and …

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Sensefly Drone to Inspect Ohio Bridge

Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Buckeye State will soon buzz a busy bridge in an inaugural drone inspection along the Ohio Turnpike. The Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission announced plans to deploy a SenseFly Albris over the Sandusky River Bridge. The 970-foot-span bridge includes one of the turnpike’s busiest …

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