It's a little new. beyond visual line of sight operations with the remote dock.
You just have to get used to not being there.
It's going to be a whole new ballgame.
Starting with our drone program back in 2019. employees take drones out to the
field.
They fly the assets. they capture the imagery.
All right. taking off.
Most hazardous part of their job is probably getting to the structure. right?
So it's a lot of access issues.
It could be. hey. we can't find this structure or the road is out.
With Skydio Dock. we can remotely deploy drones stationed at substations or
other facilities for inspections. emergency response.
You log in into Skydio Clouds. you connect to the vehicle online. and then you
can put it in the air and capture data in a matter of minutes.
All right. launching.
From a centralized control room. the pilot has the ability to pick and choose
where he wants to fly and which assets he needs to fly without having to have
that employee drive to that substation to fly that asset.
Without a BVLOS waiver. it can't operate beyond visual line of sight. so you
require a visual observer on site.
Our recent authorization for the Skydio Dock from the FAA allows for full
remote operations.
With the Skydio Dock. a lot quicker response time.
Say we do have a fault. we can send them out to look at that predetermined
location and stream the video back to where a QEW alignment can look at that
video and see it before they even have to leave their yard.
Thanks to Skydio autonomy. we can navigate and operate safely in very
challenging environments because we don't rely on GPS or any other sensors.
Unique artificial intelligence algorithms. six navigation cameras. and a
supercomputer on board provides different capabilities for the drone to operate
fully autonomously.
I've seen it avoid stuff out in the field. seen it get into tight spaces.
There's a lot of trust being built with Skydio.
For me. it goes seven years back when I first started.
I've been hearing them talk about beyond visual line of sight just over and
over and over again. but now it's finally here. and really it's going to
completely change how we utilize unmanned systems.
It's been a great opportunity for Skydio to learn how dock solutions evolve
those drone programs for an organization such as PG&E.
I'm confident that we will have full remote operations in the future where
drones will be living at a station. an alarm will trigger an event. and that
drone would take off and get eyes on that risk immediately without any human
intervention.
The automation. it's going to be the future.
How much it's going to open up the use case for drones. there's no ceiling.