Tower & mast inspection
Close-range visual and thermal of telecom towers, masts, and antennas. No climber, no traffic-stop, no rigging.
Dangerous climbs,
now autonomous flights.
Wind turbines, telecom towers, industrial chimneys, large-scale machinery, and building exteriors. All inspected without rope access, scaffolding, or human risk.
Continuous infrastructure inspections across towers, bridges, turbines, and industrial structures. Audit-grade documentation, no climbing crews, monthly cadence at scale.
3yr
Typical rope-access cadence collapsed
12min
Full thermal + visual sweep per turbine
0
Climbs, scaffolds, or boom-lifts required
APPROACH
Comprehensive coverage, real-time experts, repeatable missions.
Cost-effective autonomous drones fly inspection paths designed to comprehensively cover the asset. Live HD video reaches desktops, tablets, or mobile devices over 4G/5G with minimal latency. Operators, facility managers, auditors, and inspection experts assess assets remotely from every angle. That eliminates human risk and dramatically increases inspection frequency.
MISSION CATALOG
Eight recurring missions across high-value structural assets.
Bridge & span close-range
Underside, abutment, deck, and bearing close-up. Photogrammetric record archived against every inspection.
Roof & facade survey
Roof membrane, cladding, and facade-element inspection without rope access or scaffold mobilization.
Wind-turbine blade
Leading-edge, trailing-edge, and tip close-up of each blade. Lightning-strike damage trended cycle to cycle.
Stack & chimney survey
Internal and external close-range inspection of stacks and chimneys with tip-mounted optical and thermal payloads.
Industrial chimney thermal
Radiometric scan to detect refractory wear, hot spots, and shell cracking, all without taking the asset offline.
Pipeline corridor patrol
Right-of-way sweeps along buried and surface pipelines. Spots third-party digging, vegetation overgrowth, ground subsidence, and methane plumes. Acoustic sensor hits along the route can dispatch a node-launched verification flight within minutes.
Substation yard sweep
Close-range visual and radiometric coverage of transformer banks, busbar terminations, switchgear cabinets, and disconnect contacts. Ground crews stay outside the fence while every energised component gets a thermal frame.
DEPLOYMENT TIER
Two ways to subscribe.
Shared
Network service
For asset portfolios within 10km of an Aerion node. Multi-customer infrastructure economics. Standard mission cadence. Faster onboarding. Coverage activates without site deployment.
Dedicated
Private network
Dedicated node at your facility for high-value asset portfolios requiring priority access, custom mission profiles, or multi-flight daily thermal cycles. 8-12 week deployment.
WHAT WE DETECT
Continuous detection across the operational envelope. Findings flagged in your dashboard with audit-grade evidence trails.
DETECTION · 01
Crack & fatigue tracker
Detects crack initiation, paint-cracking patterns, and fatigue indications across structural elements. Stable defect IDs across recurring inspections.
DETECTION · 02
Coating & corrosion analyser
Coating wear, spalling, and corrosion staining versus reference baseline. Flags surfaces approaching the next maintenance interval.
DETECTION · 03
Fastener-absence detector
Missing or loose bolts and fasteners on flange connections, structural plates, and tower-segment joints.
DETECTION · 04
Thermal-anomaly scanner
Insulation breach, refractory wear, and hot-bearing signatures from radiometric thermal imagery.
DETECTION · 05
Blade-strike trender
Lightning-strike damage, leading-edge erosion, and tip wear tracked across each turbine inspection cycle.
DETECTION · 06
Refractory-wear watcher
Stack and chimney refractory thinning detected via thermal contrast and visual diff against historical scans.
DETECTION · 07
Substation hotspot reader
Compares transformer-bushing, busbar-joint, and switchgear-contact temperatures against phase-balanced neighbours. Surfaces loose connections and overloaded conductors before they fault.
DETECTION · 08
Acoustic-trigger dispatcher
Listens to fibre-acoustic and ground-sensor feeds along pipeline corridors. On a qualifying event signature, picks the nearest node and launches a verification sortie before a human operator has to triage the alarm.
INTEGRATION STACK
Drops into the asset-management stack you already run.
CAPABILITY
What each node delivers
- 10 km service radius per node
- Continuous operations through Nordic winters (−30 °C)
- Weather-rated for outdoor deployment
- Multi-sensor capture: visual, thermal, LiDAR, multispectral
- BVLOS-ready under EU specific category
- Real-time AI flagging on every flight
- EU data residency, GDPR, NIS2
INTEGRATES WITH
Your operations stack
- EAM / CMMS (Maximo, SAP, IFS)
- Enterprise GIS and asset registries
- BIM (Revit, Bentley) for as-built handover
- Photogrammetry and 3D mapping platforms
- Custom APIs and webhooks
REGULATORY EDGE
Operating from inside the EU's only U-space sandbox.
Tartu, Estonia operates the EU's only fully-operational U-space regulatory sandbox. Aerion operates inside this framework. That compresses BVLOS approval cycles that take 12-24 months elsewhere in Europe to weeks for our customers.
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