Introducing the Falcon Initiative! This is a drone inspection program developed by TAQA Group and ADDC with our partners FEDS Drone-powered Solutions - and it’s delivering value for Abu Dhabi customers. Equipped with corona and thermal imagery cameras to supplement high resolution photography, the Falcon Initiative combines high tech with high skills to take a bird’s-eye view of our assets, identifying issues that traditional inspection processes miss. We’ve had a great deal of success, identifying over 30% more defects and enabling efficient repairs before a more costly failure occurs. This will help us to stay ahead of the curve and keep our electrical network reliable and resilient! #Innovation #Drones #AssetManagement
Brilliant idea Scott Ryan, the same was implemented at Transgrid and the running project won the Asset Management Cost, Risk, Performance Award for using drones for transmission line maintenance inspections. More than 2000 out of 6500 towers and structures were inspected by drones so far. It’s not only about reducing maintainance cost and getting better resolution images for the assets conditions over time. It’s also about improving the workers safety and having less impact over the community through less access required to private properties to do the inspections.
Scott Ryan - fantastic to see your progress together with TAQA and ADDC as well as FEDS Drone-powered Solutions. Excellent impact to secure your transmission network!
Great step. In discoms in india use drones for checking our transmission lines which are in forest area. Drones are equipped with thermal and high resolution cameras which help in themal imaging of transmission lines.
A great initiative, that is cost effective and most importantly, enhances safety measures and operational excellence 👍🏻
Great.! such technology having drone for patrolling of Transimission and distribution line to monitor is a key element for inspection of Line losses and line faults and a cheap individual not a team having car to inspect Transimmion and distribution line. Alot of benefits
I congratulate our Asset Programme Management team for this initiative. Expecting this initiative to help keep our electric network resilient and reliable, specially in remote inaccessible areas of our network.
Much needed!
A big thank you to my colleague Abdulaziz Aljailani for his hard efforts on the Drone Initiative. Your hard work has been invaluable to our success. Together, we are here to light up ADDC even more. 💡
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3moKudos to TAQA Group, ADDC and FEDS Drone-powered Solutions for the Falcon Initiative! It is a remarkable advancement in utilizing drone technology for asset inspection and their timely repair. This will undoubtedly contribute to the reliability and resilience of the electrical network. Well done to everyone involved!