Drones for Energy and Utilities
contact usHow Skydio Drones are Used For Inspecting Power Equipment
Power Generation Maintenance
Fly up close to inspect and document power generating equipment and oil and gas facilities safely with the best 360° obstacle avoidance and autonomous data capture drone on the market.
Energy Transmission & Delivery
Fly unaffected in highly energized, obstacle rich, and GPS denied environments to inspect transmission, substation, and distribution networks easily with Skydio drones powered by Skydio Autonomy Enterprise.
Inspection eBook Vol 4 - Utility Management
Learn the benefits of using autonomous navigation and capture drones for inspecting power generating facilities and transmission infrastructure
Current Inspection Methods are Inefficient and Dangerous
Risky Human Inspections
Tower climbs, bucket trucks, and other human-based inspection methods are expensive, time-consuming, and dangerous.
Manual Drone Inspections
Manual drones have untrustworthy obstacle avoidance and fail to work in energiezed and GPS-denied environments requiring many hours of pilot training to avoid crashes.
Skydio Drones Improve Utility Inspection
Operate with Utmost Safety
Fly with confidence in the most challenging utility environments thanks to Skydio Autonomy Enterprise.
- Computer vision navigation allows you to fly reliably around energized environments. Skydio drones don’t rely on magnetometers and offer robust operation in strong electric and magnetic fields.
- 360° collision avoidance helps you inspect around “noisy” utilities environments surrounded by oil and gas equipment, powerlines, wires and vegetation.
Inspect Fast and Efficiently
Enable individual pilots to do more inspections in less time.
- Autonomous capture using Skydio 3D Scan enables you to automate the inspection process without prior knowledge of the site, reducing inspection times by up to 90%.
- Ease of use, thanks to unparalleled autonomy, reduces the training burden on UAS teams and makes their programs viable and scalable.
Capture High Quality Data
Intelligent AI-assisted flight allowed inspectors to capture data at their precise specifications.
- Close proximity obstacle avoidance allows the drone to fly safely and closely to the inspection target.
- Adaptive capture using Skydio 3D Scan helps you capture comprehensive data with resolution as low as 0.65 mm/pixel.
- Dual capture available with Skydio X2 allows you capture images in both color and thermal palettes.
Learn about Skydio Solutions for Energy and Utility Inspection
Skydio X2 Color/Thermal
Rugged, long-range drone built for inspection work
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Skydio 3D Scan
Autonomous data capture software for S2+ and X2
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Skydio 2+ for Enterprise
Our popular mid-range autonomous drone
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Connected flight operations for your Skydio fleet
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Utility Customer Quotes
Eversource
Skydio is going to help us perform faster and higher quality inspections of all of our energy infrastructure, while also making it safer for our teams in the field."
Elizabeth Hall
Lead UAS Engineer
Aeronyde
After rigorously testing thousands of automated missions across the DJI lineup of drones, the Skydio 2 outperformed DJI by nearly every quantifiable metric."
Edgar Muñoz
CEO
See the Skydio X2 Drone in Action
Resources
Energy and Utility Updates
3D Tower Capture: 3D Scan Gets Smarter
2D GPS Capture: A new capture mode for Skydio 3D Scan
Utility Management With Skydio Autonomous Drones
Breaking Regulatory Barriers for Remote Operations
Product Datasheets
Skydio 3D Scan
Skydio X2E Color/Thermal
Skydio Cloud
Skydio 2+ Enterprise
Webinars
Inspection at Scale - How to Build a Mission-Critical Drone Inspection Program
AI Meets Inspection: How Autonomous Drones are Changing the Game in Enterprise
What’s New with Skydio: Introducing Skydio 2+
From manual drones to Skydio: An industry veteran on best practices for the Age of Autonomy
