Telecommunication tower mapping and inspection |
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Inspection through drone |
Building construction monitoring |
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Mapping of underground mines |
Hovermap offers revolutionary efficiency, safety and operational insights to challenging above ground, underground and GPS-denied environments.
It provides collision avoidance, GPS-denied flight, advanced autonomy and SLAM-based LiDAR mapping. This allows a Hovermap-enabled drone to be deployed in challenging GPS-denied environments, to collect 3D and other data which was previously impossible to collect. This new data in turn leads to new insights.
The first early adopters started in Feb 2017 with mapping only. That early adopter (and others) is still actively using the same hardware, so even the prototypes have lasted well. AL1 was first released to early adopters in July 2018.
Commercial launch of the HF1 / VF1 was in Jan 2019.
Between 2014 and Jan 2019, Hovermap went through 6 iterations in order to reach the current commercially available product. Much work has been done to reach the current solution.
18 Early Adopters have product and over 35 systems have been commercially sold around the world to date.
Mapping of underground mines
Bridge inspection
Power line inspection
Telecommunication tower mapping and inspection.
Building construction monitoring
Liquid storage tank mapping and inspection.
Omni-directional LiDAR-based collision avoidance keeps the drone safe while flying up-close to structures to inspect them. Advanced autonomy allows beyond line-of-sight mission execution in GPS-denied environments.
Allows flying indoors, underground or under bridges.
SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) allows mapping even when GPS is unavailable.
LIDAR |
Velodyne VLP-16 Lite |
GPS (OPTIONAL) |
External GPS data recorded when0 available e.g. from DJI drone |
SLAM |
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) based LiDAR mapping |
SCAN RANGE NOISE |
±30mm |
LIDAR DATA FORMAT |
Post processing data output in .laz and .ply point cloud formats |
GEOREFERENCING |
Above Ground: Georeferenced point clouds via GPS when available (in WGS84) |
COLLISION AVOIDANCE |
Omni-directional collision avoidance using LiDAR data Adjustable minimum distance collision avoidance threshold |
GPS-DENIED FLIGHT |
GPS-denied position hold and velocity control |
MAPPING ONLY |
Any VTOL drone that can lift the payload |
AUTONOMY FUNCTIONS |
Compatible with drones equipped with DJI A3 autopilot such as M600, M210, etc. |
TABLET APPLICATION |
Pre-flight configuration; Online command and operation of the system; Obstacle situational awareness; Live camera video stream and control; |
USB3 |
High Speed data offload |
STORAGE |
480 Gigabytes – approximately 12 hours of sensor data |
POWER |
Powered from a battery or auxiliary power input (12V – 54V) Max 50W |
SIZE |
215 x 155 x 200mm (L x W x H) |
WEIGHTR |
1.8kg |
MOUNTING |
Quick-release mounting mechanism |
Telemetry |
WiFi and DJI Lightbridge |
DATASHEETS | |
---|---|
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Datasheet | PRODUCT MANUALS |
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Product Manual | SPECIFICATIONS |
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Specifications |
Hovermap offers revolutionary efficiency, safety and operational insights to challenging above ground, underground and GPS-denied environments.
It provides collision avoidance, GPS-denied flight, advanced autonomy and SLAM-based LiDAR mapping. This allows a Hovermap-enabled drone to be deployed in challenging GPS-denied environments, to collect 3D and other data which was previously impossible to collect. This new data in turn leads to new insights.
The first early adopters started in Feb 2017 with mapping only. That early adopter (and others) is still actively using the same hardware, so even the prototypes have lasted well. AL1 was first released to early adopters in July 2018.
Commercial launch of the HF1 / VF1 was in Jan 2019.
Between 2014 and Jan 2019, Hovermap went through 6 iterations in order to reach the current commercially available product. Much work has been done to reach the current solution.
18 Early Adopters have product and over 35 systems have been commercially sold around the world to date.
Mapping of underground mines
Bridge inspection
Power line inspection
Telecommunication tower mapping and inspection.
Building construction monitoring
Liquid storage tank mapping and inspection.
Omni-directional LiDAR-based collision avoidance keeps the drone safe while flying up-close to structures to inspect them. Advanced autonomy allows beyond line-of-sight mission execution in GPS-denied environments.
Allows flying indoors, underground or under bridges.
SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) allows mapping even when GPS is unavailable.
LIDAR |
Velodyne VLP-16 Lite |
GPS (OPTIONAL) |
External GPS data recorded when0 available e.g. from DJI drone |
SLAM |
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) based LiDAR mapping |
SCAN RANGE NOISE |
±30mm |
LIDAR DATA FORMAT |
Post processing data output in .laz and .ply point cloud formats |
GEOREFERENCING |
Above Ground: Georeferenced point clouds via GPS when available (in WGS84) |
COLLISION AVOIDANCE |
Omni-directional collision avoidance using LiDAR data Adjustable minimum distance collision avoidance threshold |
GPS-DENIED FLIGHT |
GPS-denied position hold and velocity control |
MAPPING ONLY |
Any VTOL drone that can lift the payload |
AUTONOMY FUNCTIONS |
Compatible with drones equipped with DJI A3 autopilot such as M600, M210, etc. |
TABLET APPLICATION |
Pre-flight configuration; Online command and operation of the system; Obstacle situational awareness; Live camera video stream and control; |
USB3 |
High Speed data offload |
STORAGE |
480 Gigabytes – approximately 12 hours of sensor data |
POWER |
Powered from a battery or auxiliary power input (12V – 54V) Max 50W |
SIZE |
215 x 155 x 200mm (L x W x H) |
WEIGHTR |
1.8kg |
MOUNTING |
Quick-release mounting mechanism |
Telemetry |
WiFi and DJI Lightbridge |
DATASHEETS | |
---|---|
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Datasheet | PRODUCT MANUALS |
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Product Manual | SPECIFICATIONS |
Hovermap 100V Autonomy level 1 package - Specifications |
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