Today, Avitas Systems, a GE Venture, announced it received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to fly a drone beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) with radar in Loving County, Texas on Shell Oil Company assets in the Permian Basin. This permission marks...
PrecisionHawk, a provider of drone technology for the enterprise, announced today it has acquired HAZON LLC, a drone service provider focused on critical infrastructure inspections, and InspecTools Inc., a provider of analytics tools and machine vision software for...
Insitu, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, revealed that its High Accuracy Photogrammetry (HAP) payload, optimized for use with the ScanEagle, is now proven to be accurate within 5cm horizontally and 10cm vertically. The company now claims it leads the...
This week at AUVSI Xponential, Intel disclosed details about its Intel Insight Platform, a software solution for digital asset management. First announced and demonstrated at InterDrone 2017, Intel revealed the Intel Insight Platform is now deployed to key enterprise...
Colorado's largest utility, Xcel Energy, received permission from the FAA to run beyond visual line of site (BVLOS) drone operations for routine inspections of electronic transmission lines. This Wednesday, Xcel announced that it would be the first utility in the...
As part of its 'Hangar of the Future' (HoF) initiative, Airbus SE unveiled a new indoor inspection drone at MRO America's. The drone will be utilized for visual checks on passenger aircraft and increase the quality of inspection reports. For those familiar with drone...