Drone Power and Pipeline Inspection $22,443,350 market forecast

This is a Part 107 drone use case that does have a future. The FAA allows with waivers operations from moving vehicles. So as long as there is a track alongside the infrastructure you are good to go.

We created this forecast on this week’s Drone Stuff This Week

Joking aside, UGCS has built in tools for powerline inspection. You can create visualisations of route and have custom 3D objects such as power lines and transmission towers on your ground control station map along with use of custom maps with more precise elevation data.

Elimco can and has inspected 100km of power lines in a single flight (under fire)

The area was under guerrilla control, that there was no practical operation place around for take offs and landings, that the wind at takeoff was nearly 45Km/h, the wind during flight was expected to gust up to 70Km/h across, that there would be quite some clouds and that the terrain was at 3.000m above sea level.

In New Zealand, their power utility has been testing the Schiebel S-100 carrying FLIR.

It is going to be an important drone sector.