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Percepto is the leading autonomous inspection and monitoring solution provider, revolutionizing how industrial sites monitor and inspect their critical infrastructure and assets. Listed in TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021, Percepto’s AIM platform fully automates visual data workflows from capture to insight, leveraging the Percepto Air drone-in-a-box portfolio, alongside other robots and visual sensors. Using advanced machine learning and AI, Percepto AIM provides an autonomous inspection & monitoring solution to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency & safety and reduce operational costs. Percepto’s solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 customers including Siemens Energy, Delek US, Koch Fertilizer and ICL Dead Sea Works.
FAA waiver allows Percepto to operate beyond visual line of sight close to structures without ground-based systems, providing scalability for the industry and cost-savings for customers
Austin, TX, April XX, 2023 -- Percepto, an industry-leading autonomous inspection and monitoring solutions provider, today announced receipt of an unprecedented waiver from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The significant approval allows the company to operate uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) in shielded airspace, without humans onsite, and without expensive and cumbersome ground-based or airborne detect and avoid (DAA) systems, for inspection and monitoring operations at critical and non-critical infrastructure sites nationwide.
Under the waiver, low risk “shielded” BVLOS operations are authorized 200 feet above and around assets located on critical infrastructure sites. At non-critical infrastructure sites, shielded BVLOS operations are permitted 50 feet above and around the height of the tallest obstruction located within a half-mile radius of the site.
This achievement for Percepto will benefit the whole industry as the industry seeks to scale true BVLOS UAS operations for inspection and monitoring and is a crucial step in fully integrating UAS into the National Airspace System (NAS).
Percepto proactively engaged with the FAA throughout the waiver application process and demonstrated to the FAA that the company can operate BVLOS close to structures safely without costly ground based or airborne DAA systems.
The operations authorized under this approval build upon recommendations made by the UAS BVLOS Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) chartered by the FAA. The ARC correctly recognized that shielded airspace near structures and other obstacles where crewed aircraft do not typically operate could be leveraged as a safety mitigation to support safe, scalable, and economically viable UAS BVLOS operations. Percepto served as a member on the BVLOS ARC.
“Percepto is very grateful to the FAA staff for their engagement and consideration of our application for this important waiver,” said Neta Gliksman, Percepto VP of Policy and Government Affairs. “This waiver will help usher in a new era of scalable UAS operations that will benefit the critical infrastructure industry immediately, and in the future, in ways we haven’t even yet imagined.”
“This waiver’s implications for BVLOS UAS operations in the United States are massive,” said Lisa Ellman, Chair of the Global UAS Practice at Hogan Lovells and Outside Counsel to Percepto. “The FAA waiver provides scalability to businesses and encourages innovation across the industry, which will yield significant benefits for critical infrastructure facilities and the American people.”
"The use of Percepto’s UAS to perform critical infrastructure inspections significantly improves worker safety and efficiency of operations by allowing inspections to occur remotely from anywhere in the United States,“ said Danny Allen, Geospatial Intelligence Supervisor at ConocoPhillips.
“The ability to conduct remote BVLOS inspections without humans supervising the system and without the need for costly DAA assets will increase the value of the Percepto system while significantly reduce costs and barriers to BVLOS operations at our critical infrastructure and industrial commercial sites nationwide," said Tim Shanfelt, PMP, Operations Enablement Director, Koch Ag and Energy Solutions.
Percepto AIM software is an end-to-end solution for automated visual inspection and monitoring of industrial sites, including oil & gas companies, critical energy infrastructure, and solar PV farms. Listed in TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021, Percepto’s AIM platform fully automates visual data workflows from capture to insight, leveraging the Percepto Air drone-in-a-box portfolio, alongside other robots and visual sensors. Using advanced machine learning and AI, Percepto AIM provides a solution to assess risk, minimize downtime, drive efficiency, increase safety and reduce operational costs.
Automated data collection
Full facility coverage, consistent and persistent data collection
Improve facility safety
Minimize manual inspections, automate emergency response.
Streamline compliance
Automated inspection audits with breadcrumbs
Maximize productivity
Reduce product loss and improve decision making
Reduce costs
Increase inspection frequency while decreasing overhead
Reduce carbon footprint
Detect emissions as they happen to meet ESG goals
Integration into Percepto AIM
Percepto Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring (AIM) is a software solution empowering you to stay on top of your site
Highest-quality & versatile payload
Equipped with 24MP RGB and radiometric thermal cameras. Customizable to suit specific inspection or mapping tasks with multiple lens configurations and OGI for gas-emission detection.
Ruggedized & weather-proof
Available 24/7/365 on your site sheltered in its Percepto Base, waterproof and weatherproof, capable of operating in heavy rain, snow, high winds and dust.
Percepto Core
The on-board module guides the Air Max to safely take off and return to the Percepto Base, and manages all on-flight tasks, powered by AI.
Safe and trusted by regulators
Certified by regulatory authorities around the world, equipped with an FAA compliant parachute for increased safety and streamlined BVLOS approvals.