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Elios 3 - the 1st mapping and inspection caged indoor drone for extremely confined, hazardous, impossible to get spaces. It paves the way towards an increasingly autonomous future.
About
Elios 3, - is the world's first collision-tolerant drone equipped with a LiDAR sensor for indoor 3D mapping. The drone is powered by a new SLAM engine that lets it create 3D models as it flies and accompanied by a new version of Flyability's software. Flyability pioneered confined space inspection drones with its first product in 2016. With the launch of the Elios 3, it continues its pledge to create cutting edge technology designed to keep humans out of dangerous places to perform the most demanding inspection tasks. The Elios 3 was made to address the need companies have for reliable inspection tools. As industries around the world scale up their use of drones, they need technology that is easy to use, performs the same way every time, and remains stable when working inside highly sensitive assets. The Elios 3 comes with an Ouster OS0-32 LiDAR sensor, allowing inspectors to collect data for the creation of survey-grade 3D models using a 3rd party software. Mapping areas that are out of reach or too dangerous for humans is very difficult, yet critical to support operational decisions in many industries. By combining the best of confined space drone data capture and 3D geospatial software technology, Flyability's enables professionals to produce survey-grade point clouds of the most inaccessible places in their workplace, completely removing the strain of approximations and guesswork from their operations. In addition to carrying a LiDAR sensor, the Elios 3 can accommodate a second payload that allows it to be customized for each individual user's needs. The Elios 3 is powered by Flyability's new proprietary SLAM engine, allowing it to turn the drone's LiDAR data into 3D models in real time, while the drone is in flight. This also gives the Elios 3 groundbreaking stability, combining data from the drone's three optical cameras and its LiDAR sensor to catch the tiniest unpredictable movement and instruct the flight controller to compensate for it. This stability and other ease-of-use features make the Elios 3 incredibly easy to operate, so that new pilots can be trained and perform their first inspection in the same day. Flyability has been working on the Elios 3 for four years. In that time, its engineers have spent thousands of hours on research and development and performed over 200 missions in the field to collect feedback, learn what clients want, and refine the technology in order to make the most reliable indoor drone on the market.
Key Benefits
IMPROVE SAFETY Avoid confined spaces entry and work at height during visual inspections. REDUCE DOWNTIMES Turn days of asset downtime into hours. LOWER COST Save your financial resources for where they’re really necessary.
Applications
MINING (mapping & volumetric measurements) Locations (Stopes, Ore passes, Shafts, Draw points, Ventilation systems). Applications (Convergence monitoring, Rock mass classification Volumetric measurement for over / under break, reconciliations and stockpile paste scheduling, Confirm backfilling volumes and heights, Improve scheduling & backfill design, reduce production interruptions Quickly identify remaining stope volumes, Locating hang ups, Thickness and volume measurement of blockages). INFRASTRUCTURES & UTILITIES (Mapping & georeferencing) Locations: Tunnels, Buildings, Production plants, Construction grounds, Emergency sites, Warehouses, Caves, Historical site, Critical infrastructures such as bridges, pipes, dams, refineries. Applications: Mapping and georeferencing of existing workings in order to plan for further civil engineering development (usually underground). STOCKPILES (Volumetric measurement & management) Locations: Silos, Tanks, Indoor and underground stockpiles.