Tag: inspections
UAV Obstacle-Avoid System Suited for Inspections, Cinematography
Cambridge, Mass.-based Panoptes Systems Corp. has introduced the eBumper4, what the company says is the first commercially available, sonar-based, obstacle-avoidance system for small unmanned...
Sky-Futures Brings Drone Inspections to the U.S. Oil & Gas Market
Sky-Futures USA, a Houston-based company offering drone inspection services to the oil and gas industry, has been awarded a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Section...
Inside ComEd’s UAS Exemption for Utility Inspections
Commonwealth Edison Co. (ComEd), a unit of Chicago-based energy provider Exelon Corp., recently received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate unmanned aerial systems...
Ohio Company Lands FAA Exemption for Bridge Inspections
Ohio-based Asymmetric Technologies LLC, a provider of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection services and data collection, says it is the first company to receive...
Inside Total Safety’s UAS Exemption for Flare Inspections
Total Safety U.S. Inc., which was recently granted a Federal Aviation Administration regulatory exemption for commercial unmanned aerial systems (UAS) use, plans to operate...
Finnish Company Demonstrates Benefits of UAV Utility Inspections
Sharper Shape, a Helsinki, Finland-based supplier of drone-based automated asset inspection and maintenance planning services, has demonstrated unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with advanced sensors...
UAS Industrial Inspections Provider Gets National Qualified Equity Status
Sky-Futures, a U.K.-based provider of unmanned aerial system (UAS) industrial inspection services in the oil and gas sector, has been granted U.K. Civil Aviation...
Fraunhofer Developing ‘Flying Assistants’ for Inventory Inspections
Fraunhofer, an applied-research organization with institutions throughout Germany, is developing what it calls the InventAIRy Project, an initiative to automatically localize and record inventories...
Aerial Inspections Provider Inks Contract with Major U.K. Rail Service
Cyberhawk, a Scotland-headquartered provider of aerial inspections and surveying with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has inked a national framework agreement with Network Rail for...
Company Awaits Approval to Fly sUAS for Chemical-Plant Inspections
Aetos Group Inc. (AGI) has requested Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to operate Aeryon small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the petrochemical industry. According...
