New York’s environmental agency is deploying drones to detect and ultimately plug abandoned gas wells that are contributing to greenhouse gas emissions around the state. Continue reading
Category Archives: Inspections
Drone Inspects Subway Tunnels After Nearby Building Collapse
Following the partial collapse of a Boston-area parking garage onto subway tunnels, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officials used a drone to conduct preliminary inspections on two subway lines before sending in a team of structural engineers. Continue reading
Future of Network Inspection – enviaM Relies on Drone Deployment
How to ensure the maintenance of more than 74,000 kilometers even if energy demand increases in the future? Chemnitz-based energy supplier enviaM has been using digital inspection by drone since 2018. Now the company has had FlyNex train 40 new drone pilots. Continue reading
German Study on Use of Drones to Service Offshore Wind Farms
EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, a publicly-traded electric utilities company and Energiekontor AG, wind farms and solar parks developer, and DLR, Germany’s research centre for aeronautics and space, have announced a new three years research on the use of transport drones to complement helicopter and ship deployments when servicing offshore wind farms. Continue reading
bp ventures Invests £3M in Flylogix
bp ventures has made a £3 million equity investment in Flylogix – a pioneering unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) business that uses drones to aid methane detection. Continue reading
World’s First Delivery Drones For Offshore Wind Sector
Marco Polo Marine Ltd., a reputable regional integrated marine logistics company, and F-drones Pte. Ltd. a Singapore-based company developing large scale autonomous delivery drones, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop the world’s first large-scale, electric aerial delivery drones for offshore wind farms. Continue reading
AI and UAVs to Monitor Lithuanian Road Infrastructure
AB Kelių priežiūra – a state-owned company that ensures maintenance of more than 21.000 km of national roads – joins forces with technology companies Thrust and Agmis to introduce an AI-powered drone-based system for automated road inspection. This joint project, called GreenBee, aims to improve the quality and scope of road network inspection and also to reduce CO2 emissions created while performing inspection tasks.
Autonomous Mapping Startup Emesent Secures US$23M Series A
Award-winning Australian autonomous mapping and data analytics startup Emesent is ready to execute its ambitious global expansion plans after closing an oversubscribed AUD 32 million (USD 23M) Series A round. Continue reading