Drone-based inspection of power plants and penstocks
Safe condition assessment in critical energy infrastructures
Automate the inspection of your pressure pipes and boilers for precise documentation. Increase the availability of your systems and eliminate risks to your personnel—efficiently, safely, and without costly scaffolding.
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Maximum occupational safety: Avoid dangerous rope access or entering narrow pressure pipes (penstocks). The ASIO X takes care of the risky work inside, while your team controls it safely from outside.
Precise 3D documentation: Create high-resolution 3D point clouds of your infrastructure. Cracks, corrosion, and structural weaknesses are located with millimeter precision and stored in the digital twin.
Higher plant availability: Significantly reduce downtime. Where ventilation and scaffolding used to take days, ASIO X delivers complete inspection data in just a few hours.
challenges
Inspecting energy plants such as hydroelectric power stations or thermal power stations requires technology that works under extreme conditions. We offer solutions for these challenges:
Narrow and winding pressure pipes
In complex penstocks, manual control is error-prone and risky. Our Tube-Lock algorithm automatically keeps the drone centered in the pipe, relieving the pilot and enabling systematic, collision-free inspection.
Complete darkness & smooth surfaces
Deep shafts and boilers absorb light, making damage detection nearly impossible. The market-leading 40,000 lumen lighting system illuminates even large cavities without shadows and delivers crystal-clear 4K images for analysis.
Danger from gases & residues
Invisible toxic gases in thermal plants endanger human lives during inspections. The ASIO X's integrated 4-gas measurement monitors the atmosphere in real time and warns of hazards even before personnel have to enter the plant.
Flybotix ASIO X
The ASIO X combines market-leading flight time with specialized lidar sensor technology for 3D mapping. Thanks to its robust construction and cage system, even contact with narrow shafts is no obstacle to a successful mission.
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