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“You can get up close and have a high
resolution view of the things you need
to inspect, and you can do it way cheap-
er and way safer than you ever could be-
fore,” Glenn explained. “So there’s a gen-
eral theme to all of these things where
we reduce the risk, the cost, the footprint
in terms of people, and give much better
data.”
This summer, ING’s robotic aircraft was
used to capture images to assess the con-
dition of wind turbine blades on a Nova
Scotia wind facility owned by Capstone In-
frastructure. It’s hard to imagine that the
same job is being done by technicians who
have to stop the rotating blades, climb up
the tower and then rappel along the blade.
“It’s not safe, it’s not fast and it’s not
cheap,” Glenn said. “We proved that we
could do multiple towers in a day… three
times as many towers.”
INCREASED SAFETY AND LESS
LOSS IN REVENUE
Not only does the Responder offer a much
safer way to carry out the same job, but it
