The service helps companies select, develop, test, and evaluate autonomous industrial drone systems, airborne edge AI, and payload sensors for predictive maintenance, visual infrastructure inspection, and factory asset monitoring. We deliver technical sparring on thermal imaging, LiDAR payload integration, automated flight path planning, and edge AI defect classification in GPS denied industrial environments. The purpose is to provide plant operators and manufacturing companies with a validated business case, reducing asset inspection costs by up to 50 percent and eliminating hazardous manual inspection work at height.
A documented technology assessment with recommendations for drone platform, sensors, integration, and next steps for testing, development, or implementation.
The service is delivered as a structured technology assessment and feasibility process hosted in DTI Drone Lab and outdoor industrial flight test arena. Work packages include operational risk assessment under EU drone regulations (EASA SORA), simulation of flight paths around complex plant infrastructure, sensor payload benchmark trials (thermal, RGB, multispectral), evaluation of automated data ingestion into maintenance management systems (CMMS), and delivery of a documented technology roadmap.
Drone companies, Manufacturing, Inspection and maintenance, Human-Robot Interaction, Other sectors with a need for drone-based solutions