As part of the Future of Flight Phase III Challenge, the Intelligent Drones for Ports and Highways (InDePTH) consortium envisions a future where the deployment of intelligent drones may be used to support a wide range of inspection and maintenance tasks around national critical infrastructures.

Currently, large-scale inspections of critical national infrastructure hold many high-risk challenges for port operators and highway maintenance teams due to a wide range of factors resulting in inefficient processes.

To address this, Connected Places Catapult sought to capture and understand the end user requirements in a real working environment to provide support by reviewing the current and potential use of intelligent drones around critical infrastructures in a more safe, efficient, and seamless manner.

The consortium is made up of Associated British Ports, BT Group, Kier, Herotech8 and Robok. BT Group and Herotech8 are ARPAS-UK Members.

24 May 2024