
Critical infrastructure with drones and robots
Discover the role of drones and robots in safeguarding Critical Infrastructure. Learn how they can enhance security measures.
January 13, 2022
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In a world with exponential development spearheaded by digital revolution and underlying technology like IOT and AI, it seems like the mantra of DNV GL: Safer, Smarter, Greener[1] can be implemented and freely translated across multiple business verticals, defining both direction and priority of value propositions. Not the least when taking into consideration that development and business growth face challenging demands of being sustainable, environmental-friendly, and socially responsible. It seems possible to meet the mantra and still be able to deliver on the classic business case components:
On top of this, companies in most of the world are challenged by decline in the desired workforce to keep momentum within development and production. As Roy Maurer describes it for SHRM online: “For the next several years, as the last of the Boomers retire, it’s hard to see how the labor force will be replaced and jobs will be filled. We will have to get better at utilizing the labor we have“[2]. The implementation of drones and robots on cloud platforms like the Lorenz Hive® provides an answer to this challenge while adhering to the Smarter, Safer, Greener mantra. Intelligent drone solutions enable specialists to stay at central locations and inspect or survey sites and locations far away in real-time, optimizing the work effort in a highly efficient way and reducing the need for additional workforce.
Smarter may cover the entire digital process where “going more digital” enables an organization to work focused with large amounts of data, share the most relevant dataset between internal and external stakeholders and finally keep track of infrastructure development using digital twins. To put it brief, if you know more, you see more, and you maintain lower cost by identifying problems in due time before they grow out of hand. Safer can refer to the reduction of risk for employees on ground due to the prevention of them having to climb high parts of infrastructure and buildings to conduct frequent inspections. Greener is a natural result of this, because of the reduced need to drive and sail around vehicles and vessels to perform the tasks now taken over by the drones and robots.
On ports, autonomous drones are utilized for frequent quay inspection on a cloud software like the Lorenz Hive®, which provides:
Surveillance of large perimeters with certain areas which are hard to access (for example rooftops, forests, lakes etc. on the premises).
Permanent surveillance of critical infrastructure and pharma production plants calls for 24/7 guards on site. To optimize the security delivery, drones on the Lorenz Hive® have been included in the service as security drones. Several pre-programmed route flights with optical and thermal camera during day and night provide:
Besides these two specific examples there seem to be a huge potential for obtaining the same Smarter, Safer, Greener advantages by including drones and cloud platforms in other business verticals. Further examples based on our own experience are buoy inspection in near coastal waters for maritime authorities, where we create a digital way of providing and sharing data without having to move in a large vessel. Or cases where we use drones to deliver and document exact georeferenced trenches for fibre cables on orthophotographs (stitched picture maps). All in all, it seems that drone technology delivers on the mantra – Smarter, Safer, Greener.
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