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in their digital development ,” said Andrés Escribano , Director of New Business and Industry 4.0 at Telefónica Tech .
“ The application of drones in the business world presents numerous sectorial use cases that will be expanded and perfected with the massive deployment of 5G . The incorporation of drones in maintenance tasks will allow companies to increase their occupational safety and anticipate possible failures or incidents that without this predictive analysis could end in service outages with their corresponding social and economic impact .”
Main benefits
Predictive maintenance of electrical networks with drones has the ability to detect corrosion of insulators and check the temperature of the network in order to identify excessive hot spots that could cause a future failure .
The mapping mapped by the drone flight allows the company to establish safety corridors to prevent fires and trees falling on the towers . In addition , the solution is designed to be able to identify SF6 leaks ( a non-toxic gas used in high-voltage electrical equipment ) that have a high environmental impact , as well as bird nests and weeds on the towers or cables that could cause power outages .
Telefónica Tech ’ s solution has a direct impact on the prevention of occupational hazards by preventing workers from working at heights or near voltage and improves the quality of work by providing high-precision images that can be processed in a safe environment . It also optimises operational costs and improves operations by avoiding the use of helicopters for these functions , avoiding the need for operators to travel to the area for routine tasks and allowing post-processing from the office . u
Together we are building an autonomous future that will improve security and inspections in an optimal , safe and environmentally sustainable way .
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