UAVs in the energy industry allow you to quickly and efficiently solve the following tasks: protection of infrastructure, monitoring the condition of power lines and heating insulated pipes, monitoring the implementation of repair work, and compiling current maps. The necessary equipment and type of unmanned aerial vehicle are selected to ensure a quality result.
Power lines are quite vulnerable structures. There are various reasons why electricity may be interrupted. For example:
• due to strong winds, the wires may break or twist;
• frost leads to icing, sagging, or power line failure;
• aging of structures causes malfunctions and accidents;
• physical interference or illegal actions of a person destabilize the work of power lines;
• falling trees, subsidence of the soil, and fractures of the earth’s crust can undermine the integrity and efficiency of structures.
To avoid all these situations, it is necessary to regularly monitor the power line using UAVs, not by walking around the territory. Because to inspect 100 km of the site a person needs about 2 days. And drones with the same distance can cope in less than a day.
– Analyzing the technical condition of power lines. The drones are equipped with thermal imagers and high-definition cameras. Therefore, they quickly detect corrosion, mechanical damage, sagging, and breakage of wires places with overvoltage, overheating, or leakage.
– Control of safe exploitation of the station. Laser scanners installed onboard UAVs will help obtain information about the inclination of the supports, the degree of sagging of the wires, the potential places of falling trees, and the area of their clearing.
– Creating electronic maps. Drone monitoring results are accurate data, high-quality photos, and coordinates of all power line objects. Using this database, you can quickly create 3D models of the terrain and explore the relief features for further modernization or the design of new power lines.
Stable operation of the heating network is required for each house to be continuously supplied with heat. Therefore, heating mains are a vital part of the infrastructure, which needs to be regularly monitored and quickly fixed.
As the pipes are deep in the ground, access to infrastructure is limited. Therefore, repair work takes a long time, which increases the likelihood of financial losses to the company due to a potential accident, failure, or shutdown of the entire workflow.
– Troubleshooting the heating network: mechanical damage, deformation, leakage, heat loss, depressurization, and breakthroughs.
– With the help of aerial data, you can make an electronic map with the exact coordinates of the heating main.
– Drone video recording will help you monitor and assess the repair and construction work level.
– Rapid monitoring allows you to respond on time to all incidents and prevent possible accidents and downtime.
– Drones can be used at any time of day and in any weather conditions.
Regular monitoring of critical infrastructure with the help of UAVs will ensure the stable and efficient operation of enterprises and save you money and time to find and troubleshoot.
UAVs in energy guarantee continuous and stable operation of power lines and heating mains. With the help of drones, you can quickly perform the following tasks:
Protection of objects, detection of problems, control of high-quality and safe network work, collection of high-precision data, and compilation of electronic maps of the area.
Speed of work, saving money and optimizing human labor
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