2,090 Miles Away. Real Assets. Real-Time Inspection. (Live from DTECH)

This is the top down view of our Skydio dock, which is like this one right here, but it's sitting at the house and we have the ability to operate it within two and a half miles of that location and we can fly a straight line over people, over moving traffic because we've got a waiver and a parachute, which is pretty cool.

So what we're about to do here is I'm gonna show you guys what oh, I gotta stand closer to this. Hold on. Okay. That's better. Alright.

So we're gonna enter the cockpit. This is, what you would see if you had your console. You would click fly now, which is pretty cool. So the bottom camera view down here, that's the front of the dock.

So that's the front of it looking out of this camera right there. That camera right there. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna fly and we're gonna go patrol some power lines. We're gonna go look at a substation that's about two miles away from this location.

And I'm gonna show you, kinda give you a lay of the land here. So this is a two and a half mile radius that we can fly. The green orange is a keep out.

So, one thing about flying our parachutes, you've got to make sure that you're staying, greater than a hundred feet above ground level because you got to have room for the parachute to deploy safely and slow the aircraft down so it doesn't hurt anybody on the ground. So what we've done here is over the populated areas in this area of operations, we have created a one hundred foot max ceiling keep out zone so that there is a safe place for the drone to fly a hundred feet above the one hundred above the, keep out zone. So if we if we zoom in a little bit, this is a three d view of it. You can kinda see in three d.

We also have an airport to the north of us. So we probably are gonna see some ADS B alerts coming in because the aircraft itself has an ADS B in receiver, it can receive status updates and position updates, altitude heading, that kind of thing of the, manned aircraft in the area so we can avoid them. And then also, there are a couple of, of thousand foot keep out zones. You see the taller boxes in the back.

Those taller boxes are Okay. We've got a fuel storage plant, fuel storage facility. I don't want any of my drones ever flying over that. And then I've got a substation with a pretty tight it's got a pretty tight distribution bus, and I don't want the drone flying over that.

And then to the far right, we've got a colonial pipeline location. So we don't wanna fly over to a pipeline locations either.

But what we're going to do, I'm going go back to two d here and I'll show you real Alright. So the substation that we're gonna fly to is gonna be right in this area. There's going to be a right of way that's leaving, the feeder that's leaving the substation. It's gonna go to the south about a mile and a half or two miles. We're gonna fly the inaccessible portion of that. The portion that, really, like, the only way to patrol it is on the railroad right of way, and we wanna kind of avoid even ever having to do that.

So I'm gonna click fly now. We're gonna enter the cockpit.

I'm gonna go ahead and kinda orient you here inside the cockpit. On the far left, you see, your call data. That's where, the call data from your OMS could go into the Skydio cloud and you would see like, things to respond to, calls that you need to go look at. And then we've got our map that looks very similar to what we saw in our fleet page. And then we're we've got our launch. I'm gonna go ahead and collapse this to kinda declutter this a little bit. And I'm gonna give us a little bit more room to to look at the actual flight.

Okay. So we wanna fly to right here and have a look at this substation. This is how easy it is. I'm just gonna right click on that location. I'm gonna click fly here. You're gonna see at the top right that the mission has been created and uploaded to the aircraft and then we're just gonna click the launch button.

And you can see the drone taking off there.

Another really unique thing about this environment that we're operating in is that, it is all pretty much five g. We're we're flying all over, infrastructure cellular, while we're doing this. You could see Saint Petersburg off to the, on the other side of the bay there and and now we're taking off and we're moving. So we're gonna because we're responding, we've got about a four mile an hour headwind. We we're gonna do between forty forty one and thirty ish. But forty one is what we're doing because we have a four mile an hour headwind and and normally we could travel there and still air at forty five miles an hour.

So you can see the off in the distance here, you can see the fuel depot that I was telling you about and that's the one that's right here that we're gonna go check out or the substation's right next to it.

But we're not gonna fly over the substation and we're only gonna fly out there. So a really cool thing too, at the top of the screen, can see the telemetry notifications. We've got our far left side where it says eighty nine. That is our battery.

Our battery power we've got left.

Just to the right of that, we've got a five gs signal strength indicator. Just to the right of that, we've got our GPS and vision collision avoidance meters there showing us. We've got height above launch of one hundred and eighty eight feet. Our AGL is right now about two thirteen, and then we're cruising at forty two miles an hour at a heading of three three seven. I think it's a good time to be here. And we're we're pulling up on it. We're almost there.

Another really cool thing with our forty five mile an hour flight time is inside the two and a half mile radius, which is kind of something we picked to allow you to have time to do something once you got there. Right? You could go further out, but you wouldn't have much time before you had to return back. So two and a half miles out, we're going to have a decent amount of time to have a look at stuff and that's what we're going to do.

So the substation's coming into view. It's gonna be right around where the arrow is right there on the screen. And then I'm gonna go ahead and switch to what we call pointer lock mode. And that's gonna allow me to start to to look around.

So I'm gonna say, let's increase our zoom a little bit. There's our substation that we're coming up to you.

And I'm gonna go back out of that for a second.

Oh, in addition, I forgot this.

You guys grab your your phones and I want you to scan this code right here. It's what we call a ready link. This ready link allows you to have a near real time view of what the drone is seeing. You can also switch between the feeds. So you can go from thermal to EO or electro optical And then you can also switch to the map. And so you can see where the drone is on the map and what it's looking at.

I'll wait till, till you guys get get that.

Okay. Cool. So Oops. Go back here. We're gonna close this up.

Okay. So now, we're gonna use our map to kinda do the fly here but we're gonna patrol this little right of way right here.

You can see the three phase line there. It'll cross the railroad tracks. This is the feeder out of the station. This all has very easy truck access, but with our drone being here, we don't need to send a truck down that road.

But we're gonna fly the right of way here that parallels the train tracks to the south.

So I am going to zoom in on Oops.

I'm gonna zoom in on a map here.

And then we can see our railroad tracks here and if we zoom in pretty close, we could see that we've got a bunch of poles there that that goes south. So we're going to right click, fly here and the drone's now gonna get right over that line and start. We're gonna have it look south and we're gonna fly here south. And so we'll cruise. This is just a patrol. We're looking for gross defects, limb on the line, pull down, wire down, that kind of thing. So we've had an basically the the idea is that we've had operations on this circuit a lot and we need to figure out, you know, what's going on with it.

Alright. So I'm gonna enter. We're now directly over the line.

I'm going to increase my zoom just a little bit. Oops.

Alright. So I got my zoom increased a little bit. We're looking out a little bit ahead of the drone's current location.

And that's to make it a little easier to see as we're flying. But ground here on the map, you can see what the drone is looking at. So you can also right click on that map and create a location. So say you found a tree on the line or something like that, you can add that there and and share that.

Okay. So now, we've got that figured out. We're going to fly down here to the first road crossing and and something I've done too is I have one thing I've done here is that I've flown as far away from the the dock as I could or or as I needed to. So that as I get closer to the dock as my battery depletes, I'm gonna have the I'm gonna have the range to do to to, have a look at it.

Alright. So now we're flying that patrol. Use you guys with a ReadyLink on your phones, you're able to see this. You're able to switch between thermal and visual, visible and we're all on five g. Something else that's cool, the fuel meter, fuel gauge at the top left, the green arc is, the flight flight time we have before we have to return home. The orange arc is the amount of battery required to return home. And so as the drone's patrolling, that green arc is gonna grow because we're getting closer to the, getting closer to the dock, the home dock location.

And you can see like if you had to patrol this right away, like that would not be something that would not be a fun day for me when I was a trail man if you called me and told me I had to go look at that section right away. There'd be a whole lot of let's try it a few times and see if it holds.

So anyway, we're flying down the road. We're coming up on our location here where we've ended our patrol and we're gonna I'm gonna ask you guys what you're interested in if somebody give me something you want to look at. Just think this is a standard distribution area and we can look at whatever you would like to on our way back to the dock. So what would you guys like to see?

Somebody. You just zoom in on a device? Yeah. You want to see a device? Alright.

Cool. Let's let's get to one.

Alright. So this is gonna require me to set this down for a second. But what I'm gonna do is I am going to go back into Pointer Lock here and we are going to fly up this road here and we're gonna go Oh, this is another cool feature I didn't really I haven't told you about. So this is What you see here in this overlay is the street data that's going on around here, right? So say you get a fuzzy call or something and they're saying like it's in this it's a nine one one call and it's in the vicinity of this address. You can see the address, you can type the address in at the top of the search screen and then fly directly to that address, which is really cool.

So you wanna see a device. Let's go find a oh, I know there's a transformer over here.

Just wanna see the zoom in capabilities and how detailed we can Sure. Sure. Hold on just a second. I'm gonna get close to, what we want to look at.

All right, we're going to hang out here for a second. We've got a couple of riser poles here we're going look at. So that's the second level of zoom. We're still a very good we're pretty good ways away from it. That's the third level of Zoom. And then we go up to six levels of Zoom. So let me get a little closer to it and I'll show you.

Alright, that's the second level zoom and then we go to the third and we can see individual strands of the conductor there.

We can see all the bugs flying around that conductor.

We can have a look at this cutout.

You wanna see a thermal cool? So that's thermal.

All of the thermal zoom is gonna be digital. So we don't have a thermal zoom lens on this but with thermal. Hold on a minute.

So what I've done here is I've switched to a crawl mode and what that does is make the drone run really, really slow around this energized primary.

Because I don't wanna do any like sudden wild movements here as I get a little closer to it.

So there's a there's your typical thermal view that you can get of switches and any other devices.

Yes.

So if there's an actual defect happening, it would be like a high resistance connection potentially. So you'd see a higher elevated temperature or delta temperature of ambient or of the other assets on the pole. So this is a three phase circuit, you would see like an elevated temperature in one one or more of the devices up there. Yeah. Oh, Iron Bow. Yeah.

Then we're gonna go right in here and adjust our thermal palette.

And then we got Iron Bow, which is like what I guess tower engineers love the most. Am I right? I think it looks good.

Alright. So we're at thirty four percent. Something I want to show you is that I can go hands off of this aircraft. I can easily take control of it if I want. But I'm gonna go hands off for a minute while we're we're waiting and this thing is going to Oh, here's the transformer. Let's look at that.

Alright, so that's our transformer. You can see it's a twenty five kVA.

And we can see it in thermal. You can see that the connections are pretty cool on the front of the transformer there. Kind of lose some resolution.

Alright. So we're at thirty one percent. I'm just letting the drone hang out. The drone will return home when it knows that it it that's the only battery it has.

When it's basically bingo fuel, the drone will decide to return home on the settings that I pre programmed when I set up this organization. And that's gonna be thirty six miles an hour at two hundred feet AGL. And I just wanted to show you guys that that return. Let me clear up my throat.

The return's been executed. You can see I can still take control of this if I wanted. I can cancel the return.

I'm gonna clear this up.

And the drone immediately climbed to one ninety one, a hundred and ninety one feet above launch and we are making a straight line back to the dock which I could show you in this map over here.

Alright. So that's the distance we're covering. We we flew about two miles out and probably a mile and a half down patrolling that line and then we had time to have a look at a couple of line devices as we did it.

If you guys wanna in about probably thirty ish minutes, I'm gonna do another demo and I'm gonna show what we call asset based inspection, which allows you to highlight your assets that have been imported into the cloud with one click and then create missions based off of the asset data that you've uploaded into the cloud.

Alright. Hold on. We're we're about to land. Let me land and then I'm gonna hand it over to Chris.

Alright. So this landing process is gonna be the same whether it's an emergency landing or, return to home from battery. And you can see as we got home, our green we got some green back. So if we wanted to hang out over the dock, we could and have a look.

But now the dock is opening. You can see that in the bottom left hand camera. That's a interior camera on the dock. The aircraft's going to lock on to the April tags that are on the you see on the landing pad there.

Those April tags are illuminated for day or night operation. And, the drone's gonna lock onto it, homing on it, and land.