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American Robotics’ Scout System can now be used to automate the inspection of oil and fuel belongings. | Source: American Robotics
American Robotics, a subsidiary of Ondas Holdings, and Infrared Cameras Inc. (ICI) introduced a strategic partnership. American Robotics will use ICI’s optical fuel imaging (OGI) and thermal sensors in its autonomous Scout System.
The Scout System is an autonomous drone system involving Scout, the corporate’s AI-powered drone, Scoutbase, a weatherproof charging and edge computing station and Scoutview, a front-end fleet administration and analytics software program. ICI’s sensors will permit the Scout System to automate the inspection of oil and fuel belongings.
“American Robotics continues to see some of the oil and gas industry’s largest companies focus on integrating autonomous drones into their operations to conduct regular site inspections and ensure employee safety,” Reese Mozer, co-founder and CEO of American Robotics, mentioned. “Through our strategic technology partnership with ICI, we continue to expand our product offerings with key features tailor-made for the oil and gas industry, enabling customers to automate inspections of critical assets such as tanks, pipes and pumps. Importantly, the solutions being developed in connection with our ICI partnership are designed to meet specific customer requests.”
The new partnership between the 2 firms will permit Scout System customers to scale back working bills, reduce reputational danger and safeguard workers and the setting. ICI’s OGI and thermal sensors permit Scout to gather essential information on missions and establish anomalies like methane leaks and gear and electrical hotspots.
“We are excited to partner with American Robotics to bring innovative solutions to the oil and gas industry,” Gary Strahan, Founder and CEO of Infrared Cameras Inc, mentioned. “We believe that our state-of-the-art software and multi-sensor payloads combined with American Robotics’ leading drone solution, will greatly benefit clients across the oil and gas industry.”
In September, American Robotics introduced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued the corporate a brand new exemption that removes circumstances and limitations that restricted industrial operations from its earlier exemption. The firm acquired a Part 107 Waiver for expanded Automated Beyond-Visual-Line-of-Sight (BVLOS) flights.
American Robotics was the primary firm to obtain FAA approval to function automated drones with out people on-site in 2021. This newest exemption is an modification to that waiver, which initially restricted operations to analysis and improvement, crew coaching and market surveys. Now, the corporate has the total authority to function its autonomous Scout System drone commercially with out limitations.