Inspection and surveillance

Brazil’s XMobots reports it has received the first authorization by the Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil – National Agency of Civil Aviation (ANAC) for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flights up to 30 kilometres […]

By Arie Egozi A combination of an unmanned personal ground vehicle and drones is now being developed in Israel for long-endurance civil infrastructure inspections. Urban Air Mobility News  has learned that Israeli company DSraider has […]

By Arie Egozi  Israeli company Percepto is enhancing its security services portfolio offered by its Sparrow drone-in-a-box by working together with the Spot agile robot developed by Boston Dynamics. The company’s autonomous inspection and monitoring […]

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) deployed, this week, 15 drones to monitor its networks. These specialist survey craft are owned and flown by Swiss manufacturer Wingtra, reports esi-africa.com. They travel BVLOS up to 8km from […]

Nicolas Billecocq is Chief Operating Officer of Azur Drones, a pioneer of autonomous, drone-in-a-box security solutions What is Azur Drones doing that is so different from other commercial drone operators? We are operating drone-in-a-box, autonomous […]

South Korean company, Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI), a producer of portable fuel cell power packs for drones, stated last week it is “to make inroads overseas to expand its presence in the power cable-checking system,” […]

 The latest drone industry startup to attract new funding is U.S. California-based Ware that deploys autonomous drones for warehouse inventory counting, reports a company press release. The investment is driven by industry insiders who realise […]

Foreship, a Finland ship design and engineering company, is deploying drones to speed up the process of naval draught surveys, while improving safety and accuracy, reports seatrade-maritime.com . Markus Aarnio, Chief Naval Architect of Foreship, […]

Transport Canada has issued the second Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) for Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) in uncontrolled airspace to MVT Geo-Solutions, reports a press release. Employing Iris Automation’s on-board detect-and-avoid (DAA) system, […]

The UK Surveillance Camera Commissioner has awarded Crowded Space Drones “the first ever” private sector certificate for the use of drones in surveillance, reports a company press release. This certification has been adjudged following an […]