In
this day and age, drones are being utilized in all walks of life. Asset
management is no exception. Companies are using drones for asset inspection
purposes. These aerial vehicles have proven to be of a lot of help to
organizations when it comes to surveying and inspecting their assets.
All
over the world, businesses and utilities own a number of assets that need to be
managed and assessed from time to time. The reason for this is that
infrastructure can change and become susceptible to faults with the passage of
time. In the past, the inspection and assessment of assets was done manually.
It was a time consuming task which cost these companies a great deal of money.
The introduction of drones however has made it a lot easier for a company to
keep an eye on its assets. Such has been the impact of drones in this industry
that they are being touted as the future of asset management.
Melbourne
Water is one of the biggest water service providers in Australia. They have
been using drones and UAVs for the purpose of inspecting and assessing their
infrastructure for quite some time. At present, Melbourne Water is utilizing
the drones for inspecting two of their most important assets, the Main Southern
Carrier of the Western Treatment Plant and the Thomson Dam Spillway. Drones are
flown over these assets to inspect the state of these structures and to look
for anomalies, such as:
- Weed encroachment
- Surface degradation
- Chipping
- Shifting
- Cracking
- Shifting of the panels
Melbourne
Water has found drones to be quite useful in identifying faults in their
infrastructure because of the high resolution photographs that the UAVs are
able to take during its flights over the structures. It is for this reason that
utility companies are looking to utilize drones for inspection of its other
assets too.
Seeing
the rising demand of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for
asset inspection, numerous companies have started providing this service to the
utilities. Cyberhawk Innovations, a remotely operated aerial vehicles manufacturing
company is a pioneer in this field. The company reportedly carries out hundreds
of inspections a year of industrial assets using
remotely operated aerial vehicles (ROAVs). The use of UAVs in asset management
has proved to reduce costs, improve safety, save time, and minimize the chances
of shutdowns and service interruptions. The growing company also announced
recently that they’re going to offer land surveying services. The targeted
customers are utilities, civil engineering companies, and governments. The involvement
of UAVs in other fields of the industry is expected to increase over the
remaining course of the current decade.
The
number of applications that drones and UAVs are being used in the asset
management field is significant. Drones and UAVs can help in flood risk
surveys, storm damage reports, ecological surveys and coastal erosion surveys,
saving thousands of lives in the process during any massive natural crisis. They
also have other industrial purposes like 3D modeling, historic building surveys, and archeological site recording.
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