Energy, Utility, Infrastructure inspection
The Smart Skies Healthy Waters initiative has been awarded £6 million as a headline winner of Ofwat’s fifth Water Breakthrough Challenge, aiming to revolutionize coastal water quality monitoring in the UK. Led by Northumbrian Water in collaboration with ARPAS-UK Member Skyports Drone Services, Makutu, Newcastle University, and Proteus Instruments, the project introduces a novel approach…
Drones in Action: Drone inspections reduce costs by 25% and can cover 10-12 turbines per day, significantly increasing efficiency compared to manual methods.
Innovative portable solution – skyAlert – audibly alerts UAS operators and visual observers to nearby ADS-B equipped aircraft, enhancing safety and operational awareness. uAvionix, committed to radically innovating to keep the skies safe for all airspace users, yesterday announced the release of skyAlert, a portable, wearable ADS-B receiver specifically designed for professional Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS)…
Drones in Action End User Stories:
Traditional inspections of live flare stacks offshore require shutting down operations which can cost up to £4 million per day and are hazardous due to extreme heights and heat.
Drones are now being employed by companies for offshore inspections, enabling pilots to operate safely from shore while drones perform complex data collection tasks over the sea.
Drones in Action End User Stories: Site Security Management | Severn Trent Water & Dovecote Park – By integrating automated drone surveillance, security patrols became three times faster across a 13-acre site. Drones provided real-time monitoring with thermal cameras, reducing reliance on manual inspections, improving safety, and lowering operational costs and carbon footprint.
Drones in Action End User Stories: £1 million Network Rail savings annually* thanks to a new drone-based survey solution by Plowman Craven. The system operates 20 metres above the tracks with precision accuracy of +/- 5mm – meeting Network Rail’s requirements without disrupting services or putting workers at risk.
Drones in Action End User Stories: Using UAVs over traditional methods helps save around £5 million per year and helps to remove the need to put workers at risk.
Drones in Action End User Stories: By using drone technology, independent volumetric datasets can be captured 50% faster than traditional quarry surveys.
Forth Valley College (FVC) has launched Scotland’s first ECITB Industrial Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) Operations: Foundation Training Course, marking a significant advancement in industrial drone training. This pioneering five-day program, hosted at FVC’s Falkirk Campus, is designed to enhance drone operation skills for industrial applications, including infrastructure inspections, site surveys, and data capture. Course…
Drones in Action End User Stories: Durham County Council has revolutionised solar farm inspections with a Drone-in-a-Box solution. Previously, manual inspections took days – now, a thermal drone completes the job in just 80 minutes.