Intelligent Robotic Inspection: Contact-based Inspection Using Tethered Flying Robots

Solution Developer

Avestec

Project Description

Avestec, a Canadian tech company based in Vancouver, offers innovative tethered flying robots for inspection of industrial spaces in various industries including oil and gas, mining and others.

For years, the inspection of industrial, hard-to-reach spaces has been unsafe, expensive and time-consuming. Within this context, intelligent robotic inspection emerges as a revolutionary technology that provides accurate contact-based inspection to fulfill industrial inspection standards.

Avestec’s technology reduces the cost and time of inspection processes, eliminates accessibility challenges, provides an opportunity for in-service inspection, and enhances asset health monitoring to prevent any major environmental incident. In addition to economic and environmental advantages, these robots are eliminating safety concerns due to removing human factors for the inspection of hazardous spaces.

Avestec’s intelligent robotic inspection is supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Based data analysis and asset visualization capabilities, which allows asset owners and service providers to make evidence-based decisions faster and more efficiently.

Benefits/Outcomes

• More accurate and efficient inspections

• Significant cost and time reductions (by a factor of seven) in the inspection process

• Safe remotely operated inspections with zero accessibility challenges

• Enhanced monitoring capability which prevents the occurrence of environmental events

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