Visual inspections are required as part of most industries’ maintenance procedures. Using a drone to capture visual data on the state of an asset can assist inspectors in avoiding unsafe circumstances, lowering risk, and drastically lowering cost.
High-resolution Video Checks
Drones have several other advantages such as high-resolution video checks. This allows for more efficient and cost-effective examination of difficult-to-reach places such as pipelines and structures, eliminating the need for costly approaches such as rope access and scaffolding. Captured high-quality images may be used to conduct extensive condition evaluations.
Thermal Imaging
Thermal imaging may also be performed by drones. Inspections may be done in a highly effective and timely manner using aircraft-mounted thermographic imaging technology. Potentially dangerous hot spots that might lead to unanticipated downtime and maintenance can be identified promptly.
Photogrammetry
Another approach utilized by drones for inspection is photogrammetry, which produces the most precise data for 3D modeling and dimensional mapping for volumetric calculations. This significantly improves comprehension of an asset’s status to aid decision-making.
Fields of Application
Offshore projects are generally viewed as severe and demanding, and it is critical to limit errors and loss of production at both the installation and the inspection equipment to a minimum. For instance, a flare inspection on an oil-and-gas platform where the flare is still operational. The drones can here capture image- or thermographic data about the flare’s status while production continues unimpeded.
Drone inspection may also be used for onshore structures such as bridges on land, linking islands, or crossing divides in a landscape. Also for inspection of towering buildings such as wind turbines, where the drone obtains high-resolution photographs of potential flaws, allowing for detailed planning of repair work as the data obtained will assist avoid unpleasant surprises during the maintenance period.
Drone inspection is also useful in confined locations such as power plant boilers, fuel storage tanks, and so on. Visual inspections are desirable, but there are significant problems when deploying drones in limited locations. Drones, on the other hand, can provide good picture quality with real, natural colors by employing strong LED lighting.
Every day, workers all across the world evaluate dangerous interior places. Drones can thus undertake surveys of difficult inside settings more securely, economically, and effectively than human inspectors; thus, the time has come to transition to drones for internal inspection.
We have solutions for drone inspection that can be used in sectors like Renewable energy, the Oil and Gas Industry, Cement Industry, Mining Industry, and other traditional manufacturing industries.
For additional information on such solutions and emerging use cases in other areas, as well as cooperation and partnership opportunities, please contact us at open-innovator@quotients.com
