Industrial
Inspection of assets that are dangerous, tall, or offshore.
- Sector colour
- Bright White
- Reference
- #FFFFFF
- Mission types
- 4
- Recommended airframes
- 3
Why UAS, and why this platform.
Towers, turbines, flare stacks and grid infrastructure all share one problem: getting a person close enough to look. Gimballed inspection payloads remove the rope access, the shutdown and the risk.
Every ShadowVu airframe shares one architecture, one parts bin and the same three-minute build, so scaling the aircraft to this mission never means leaving the platform or standing up a second support chain. Aircraft are made in the United Kingdom on a secure supply chain, 85 percent in house, with a defined pathway to remove China from that chain entirely.
Representative operating environment. Aircraft are configured to the mission rather than the other way around.
What the fleet is asked to do here.
The mission types this sector deploys against most often. Payloads are configured per mission, in house or with partners through ShadowVu Labs.
Asset inspection
Utilities & grid
Oil and gas
Offshore platforms
Where we would start.
A recommendation, not a rule. Every aircraft is built on the same architecture, so the choice is a frame class and an endurance profile rather than a different product.
Ranger
Quad-copter · FPV
Ranger carries a gimballed inspection payload close enough to a structure to replace rope access on routine surveys.
Huey
Quad-copter · FPV
Turbines, flare stacks and offshore platforms call for a sensor stack rather than a single camera, and Huey is built for exactly that load.
Hawk
Fixed-wing · FPV
Linear assets such as grid runs and pipelines are a distance problem, and Hawk covers them without the battery cycles a rotary fleet would need.
Persistent, uncrewed coverage of a fixed site is added with Quad-Dock, which charges and relaunches the aircraft without a person present. Fleets of any size are managed through ShadowVu Everest.
Get the full picture
Bring the industrial requirement.
Tell us what has to be seen, how often and under what constraint, and we will be straight with you about the airframe, the payload and what the platform does not do.