Recent Connectivity Solutions Drive Efficiency in Difficult Terrains
Event 38 Unmanned Systems, a number one manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, and AviSight, a critical infrastructure inspection provider, have announced their collaboration with Elsight to integrate its AI-based UAV connectivity solution, Halo, into their operations. This partnership goals to reinforce beyond visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) inspections for extensive oil and gas pipeline monitoring over difficult terrain.
Elsight’s Halo is a light-weight and reliable communications system. Halo utilizes AI-based software to aggregate multiple IP links right into a secure bond using private and non-private cellular, satellite, and RF technologies. This ensures uninterrupted drone communications even in essentially the most difficult environments, facilitating continuous transmission of high-bandwidth video and data to the command-and-control center (C2).
AviSight’s CEO, Suzanne Herring, emphasized the importance of connectivity of their operations: “AviSight’s popularity depends on our ability to offer accurate, timely and consistently critical infrastructure inspections through using unmanned ariel systems in an economical manner. In a technology market that’s rapidly developing, it is crucial to stay modern in our systems methodology while also embodying the challenges of an efficient execution of the mission. With C2 linkage being a primary priority for our BVLOS missions, it was essential to search out a partner with the capabilities to keep up communications throughout our volatile terrains. Elsight has provided us with the flexibility to keep up C2 through vast wetlands, mountainous regions, and distant areas. While Event 38’s E455 has given us the flexibility to fly extensive linear inspections efficiently and more cheaply.”
The E455, Event 38’s latest VTOL drone, is a fixed-wing, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft weighing 55lbs. It offers a 2.5-hour flight endurance on battery power alone and is able to carrying diverse payloads, including mapping sensors, LiDAR, and EO/IR surveillance sensors. This versatility meets the strict demands of assorted applications, including lengthy pipeline inspections.
Jeff Taylor, CEO of Event 38 Unmanned Systems, highlighted the importance of this integration: “The high bandwidth and low power usage of the Elsight Halo paired with the E455 open countless possibilities of inspections over long distances and rugged terrain that were impossible previously. Our E455 VTOL was capable of catch up with to the pipelines with the assistance of Elsight.”
Yoav Amitai, CEO of Elsight, commented on the collaboration: “Working with Event 38 and AviSight has been very fulfilling from each technological and business perspectives. Our Halo was designed for mission-critical goals, particularly, in difficult situations. Elsight optimizes using drones in lots of industries with reliable BVLOS connectivity for operational effectiveness. At the identical time, we enable industry growth through the use of just one operator to regulate a drone fleet from distant locations anywhere. That is how we see our Halo as a market catalyst for drones in pipelines, and inspections in lots of industries, through which removing the human element delivers higher and safer results.”
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