With the easy-to-use controller of our underwater drones, you can see everything that happens in the area of the underwater drone. You can read a lot from this monitor thanks to the sensors, but how do you control such a monitor? Which buttons are important and how do you read the interface?
Controlling an underwater drone with a controller
All Deep Trekker ROVs and crawlers are controlled by a controller. All controllers are suitable for outdoor use and are weather, splash and waterproof.
The controllers feature a 7-inch daylight screen. The unique aspect of the Deep Trekker ROVs is the fact that all accessories that you put on or to the drone are integrated into the software. This has the great advantage that all accessories can be read and operated from the controller. Think for example of the sonar and positioning. With one push of a button the operator is able to switch between sonar, positioning or video images. So the operator always has the right information.
Furthermore, the electronic compass can always be read from the controller, and depth, roll and pitch are displayed at a glance.
All functions of the underwater drone are simply operated from the controller. If photos, videos or sonar images are stored, they can be easily exchanged using the memory card in the back of the controller.
The controller has a WiFi function which can be used for various applications.
Last but not least, the controller has external ports to connect to external media. This offers you, for example, possibilities to stream your images live.
Reading interface
From the easy-to-read interface, you can learn a lot. You can read the temperature of the water, and the angle where you are so you can navigate with a compass. You can also read the angle of the camera and how far the head is turned. You can read the depth.
Additional couplings
On the back end, you have many input options. Namely, the HDMI, USB, Ethernet and SD card connectivity as described earlier, but also, for example, an additional screen link. There are a lot of different options available.
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Inspections on docks is something that should be done periodically. If you hold frequent underwater inspections, you can track damage and wear over time, and know when something needs to be fixed. This ensures that you can get to the problem in time and avoid unnecessary escalating costs.
Damage to jetties at ports, how to prevent it?
Scaffolding must be sturdy enough to withstand water pressure. They wear out after a while, moss growth makes a scaffold less stable and sturdy. Failure to maintain scaffolding can lead to serious accidents. A scaffold can collapse if the poles are not properly maintained. This can also happen when someone is standing on the scaffolding or when a boat is attached to the scaffolding. You can already imagine the damage! That would of course be a shame.
What an underwater drone can contribute to this.
Fouling on a scaffold can also take root in the wood. You can’t just see this on the outside of the pile. With the use of the accessories for our underwater drones, you can easily remove that fouling and see if the scaffolding needs maintenance right away, or maybe later. The same goes for quay walls, they can be very damaged unnoticed. Here too, an underwater drone is extremely useful; it allows us to see what is (almost) damaged and how it should be fixed.
Why is a regular soil test important?
You can perform a soil test to determine the quality of the soil, for example by taking a sample of the soil and examining it. However, it is also important to conduct a soil test on a regular basis to see what is lying on the ground. For example, there may be a shopping cart or other object lying around that does not belong there. These foreign soil materials can get stuck in the propeller of a ship, which is very annoying and can bring serious damage to a ship. It is also going to cost a lot of money to repair.
An underwater drone is ideal for this purpose. It can easily move through the water and take any sample from the bottom. The drone also has a sonar that easily makes an underwater scan. You can then immediately see if- and what kind of bottom alien materials can be found in the water.
The following video shows images of an inspection at a harbor with our underwater drone.
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This blog will focus on what is best to do when inspecting pipes, but first, of course, you need to know what pipes can be inspected! We’ll start with the different types of pipes:
Drinking water pipes
Drains (sewers)
Rain Water Drainage pipe
Why do these pipes need to be inspected?
This is actually quite simple. Pipes have to be inspected for various reasons, mainly from government legislation, Inspecting is laid down in laws for the purpose of checking structures under the road network. So it is about safety. The safety dimension in turn involves several dimensions:
Safety in terms of robustness of structures
Legally regulated
Safety in terms of hygiene
In addition, inspecting is also cost-effective; an inspection makes it very clear whether repairs are needed, and when they should be scheduled and by what means. Without inspections, this remains guesswork, with many unnecessary costs. Knowing where you stand is therefore essential.
How is the Rain Water Drainage pipe inspected?
HWA pipes are now inspected in a process-oriented way with many steps:
Putting baffles in the two well entrances to hold back the water
Draining the water between the baffles (to another well)
Sending an inspection robot into the pipe for inspection
Remove the baffles after the inspection
These are many steps that cost time, money and energy. That while these steps can be skipped via other inspection methods….
How can the inspection be done with underwater drones?
With an underwater drone (ROV), the drone can be lowered into the water in the pipe itself. This means that the pipe does not have to be drained and the above-mentioned steps can be skipped.
The pipes with rainwater are in principle reasonably clean, so this is no problem for an ROV with the 4K camera to make sharp images under water. If the water is murkier, then it is also possible to use sonar to take a good image of the pipe.
The difference below the line:
Despite the fact that we have a fixed fee, we are cheaper to inspect per meter. We can inspect much more in one day, namely up to three times as much as the current method.
With an underwater drone you can get through the water faster, and the pipes do not have to be dried. This saves time, and time is money. No additional parties are needed to perform an inspection either, just an operator and a drone.
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The technology and opportunities involved continue to evolve. When mixed with interests and global issues, this produces beautiful pieces of work. For example, solar parks have been developed on the water! These are so-called “floating solar parks”. Solar panels are being laid in large numbers on ponds, dredging sites, and other inland water sites. This is one of the initiatives to ultimately meet the 2050 climate goals.
How will solar panel farms be placed on waters?
Of course, it’s not all easy! Unlike on land, it is not easy to work on the water, and all parts must go out onto the water fully prepared. These are therefore:
Manufactured
Transported to the water
Assembled on the waterfront
Connected to the systems
Released into the water
Of course, it is very important that the solar panels are placed quite a bit above the water line. Any form of noise reduces the optimum energy yield.
What does it provide?
In essence, floating solar panel farms yield just as much as solar panel farms on land or on rooftops. Thus, these will achieve almost the same efficiency. But in addition to the same efficiency, there are more positive points that give these solar parks advantages.
Solution for lack of space
Solution in the fight against the emerging waterline
More opportunities to achieve the climate agreement.
It is obviously important to maintain solar panel farms, and there is a lot that needs to be paid attention to.
The first points that come up are often things like keeping the solar panels clean. After all, when they are dirty they yield much less, and that is a shame. In addition, the wiring and electronics must be checked to see if they are still in good condition.
The various foundations on which the solar panels lie must also be checked for soundness. If necessary, algae growth on the underside should be removed.
The anchoring must be checked, the fastenings must be checked thoroughly! The solar panels must not move too much as this can cause damage
What can an underwater drone add to solar panel farms?
safety
security
cost efficient
“Despite the fact that little is known about the effects of solar farms, it is clear that toxic substances can leak into water during maintenance and damage.” This is mainly seen from an ecological perspective, water quality and biodiversity, and we think this is entirely justified. Climate research is also possible with an underwater drone, we can read temperature differences at all depths. However, we see an extra dimension in this: safety of inspectors
If toxic substances enter the water, you obviously do not want to send divers. This can be done safely from the shore with an underwater drone!
Besides safety, ROVs also provide extra security. It is easy to inspect from the shore, as you would do on land. With sonar and camera images, there is always a view, and the quality can be properly inspected.
Another important addition of an underwater drone to your solar farm, is that it can provide more and better product quality. Also, more capacities are available, as we can dive much deeper and for longer times in a row.
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Our versatile drones are easy to operate with the controller. It certainly requires a good sense of positioning and some experience to use the underwater drones to their full potential, but we offer 1-day courses where anyone can quickly master this sense. So almost anyone can quickly learn how to best deploy one of our drones, what the options are and how to best utilize these options!
But before the drone can be used, it must first be prepared for an operation. The diagram below shows the steps required to get the ROV fully operational. Often the initial steps can be skipped for faster use by keeping the underwater drones partially ready for use.
The first part applies when the drones are not yet partly ready for use and will therefore be repeated often, especially in the initial phase. For the best duration of use, of course, all items are always properly stored in the appropriate cases. With a lot of use, this may well be skipped, if transportation cannot cause problems or damage.
Remove the drone, controller and tether cable from the cases.
Display the gear widely for optimal space utilisation.
(These steps can be skipped if the items are stored differently, for reasons including saving time.)
Connecting the ROV and tether cable
Connecting the controller (to the drone) and turning it on
Calibrate the various options of the drone, (optional: perform tests on dry land)
Attaching any accessories to the drone and adjusting them correctly.
Gently launching the drone into the water.
From experience we can say that the accessories take the most time. It is therefore wise to have done this beforehand, so that the time on location can be used optimally.
Opportunities above and below water
The easy part about using our underwater drones is that the inspectors can control what they see. Those who control the drone can put anything they want in a picture, and however they want. This gives freedom because a plan can be drawn up as to what needs to be inspected and this can then be carried out immediately.
Communication between the diver and someone on the shore is therefore no longer necessary; you are in control yourself.
This also brings a disadvantage: the ROV is as good as its operator. This means that it does not matter what equipment is being used if it is not used properly (enough). That is why we offer everyone who we sell an underwater drone or robot, a course to get to know the drones well! This is done with one of our own drones, so yours will never be at risk of damage.
With the 1-day course we guarantee that you will have fully mastered the operation of the drone. If this is not the case, we plan an extra day to help you learn how it works. An investment must be used optimally, otherwise the product is a less valuable asset, and of course we want to prevent that!
What are the biggest benefits of using drones (ROVs)?
On one of our many posts on LinkedIn, we graphically mapped out the advantages of an underwater drone over a diver. (The image below to emphasize it as well)
It can make it look like we want to replace the culvert, which is really not our goal. We want safety below the waterline. By being used as a tool for culverts, we can actually help them rather than replace them. Inspections are quicker and easier with an ROV, but replacing a culvert in its entirety is certainly impossible at present. That’s why we are an extension of divers, we can reduce diving time and look for unsafe situations with an ROV, instead of divers (human lives).
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As a company you are always developing, for the company itself and for the customers. We are growing in the market, stay active on social media and work on renewing the website.
In addition to these marketing specific purposes, there are many more developments underway. Of course we are not going to mention all of them now, this will remain a nice surprise… However, one of the developments is:
3D-images
One of the most technically complicated developments we are currently working on is 3D images. Bert Vierwind is our chosen person to convert the images we take underwater into a 3D environment.
Bert is a student atVan Hall Larenstein studying Land and Water Management. With us he has started to specialize in data improvement. The importance of this is that the data we receive can be presented to the customer in a more streamlined way. By using the images from the camera and sonar for a 3D model, it is always clear where certain cracks or other issues are located.
The images are used from the camera and sonar, and then made into a 3D model. This can be done, for example, of pipes, locks and quay walls.
The following photo is not a real photo:
This is an image of point clouds that result in an image capture. This technology is not yet flawless, but it can be used to produce a good image with many landmarks. Furthermore, we would like to spare you the background of the technological story.
Interview Bert:
Why did you start creating 3D-pictures?
For my studies in land and water management, I started an investigative internship at H2O-Drones. Here the director presented me with a problem the company was facing. Namely, the large amount of data collected by the drone and that still needs to be converted into information with a lot of man hours. The video images and sonar data collected by the underwater robot are some examples of these data outputs.
What can you do with 3D images? And what are the major benefits?
Now there is the possibility of converting video images into a 3D environment via photogrammetry. This is very useful for later to zoom in directly on the interesting parts of the inspection without spending hours watching video footage and comparing these frames. If, for example, there is a crack in an inspected diver, only half of it appears in the video image at one point and the other half at another point shows the other half, a lot of footage has to be processed in order to visualize something small. This takes a lot of man hours and can be solved much more easily by software. The 3D images are one s solution. Here the interesting parts can be easily and efficiently recognised and magnified.
How long do you spend creating a 3D environment?
It varies. For an inspection with imagery of an hour or more, the creation of such a three-dimensional image approximating the inspected environment can take an evening or day. However, there are options to speed up this process and it can be completed within 2 hours if necessary. The image will then be less accurate. It is just where the priority lies.
Do you see a future in this technological development?
There is very much a future in this development. Especially in performing autonomous inspections. Before a drone knows where it needs to be, of course, it must first be able to recognise the environment. Therefore, drones have to be trained and tested. Now there is an option for the software to solve this completely virtually. Although then there must first be an accurate three-dimensional environment in which the programs can be trained. That’s what photogrammetry-created 3D environments are essential for. If you want something to work in the real world, you have to use real-world material.
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Pipe inspections are increasingly necessary today. Pipes can have many different negative aspects that affect water, drainage and soundness of structures. We have recently come across many pipes that are (almost) completely silted up, have many cracks in them or where the seams no longer connect properly. Often this is no longer workable and a major repair operation must be carried out or pipes must even be replaced! This brings with it great costs, costs that could easily be prevented.
Here there is also a lot of silt on the bottom, but the pipeline is otherwise in good condition.
What kind of pipes can we inspect?
We inspect almost all pipes that water runs through! With an assortment of drones, we can always pick the right drone for an inspection. This coordination means we always get the best possible results from our projects!
We inspect many pipes and conduits with runoff water. This is mainly rainwater and sludge, with the sludge usually consisting of sand, dust and pebbles.
In addition, we can also go through locks. These also need to be inspected regularly, which is easier with drones than with divers.
Both sewers and pipes full of oil, there is little we come across that we haven’t already done! However, we are always curious about new challenges you have in store for us.
The sonar never lets us down! We can always see underwater.
We perform the best inspections in pipes of at least 500mm in diameter. Here we can send in our DTG 3, which is one of our best drones! Smaller pipes are possible, but here we must first discuss the possibilities, which you can already contact us about!
What are we able to do?
Ultrasonic thickness measurements
Mapping damage
Conducting inspections in turbid water with the sonar
Taking water samples with the drone
For inspections this is enough, and we can basically map everything. So all pipes can be inspected properly with our drones! Besides inspecting, we also develop, and start offering more and more for you.
Soon (hopefully) so can we:
Capture everything in 3D models
Remove sludge
Perform repairs
What can we offer?
We offer several drones that can handle such inspections! You can do this all by yourself, which means that you always have full control over budget, time frames and images! For regular use, we therefore recommend you to buy a drone, which is a good investment in the long run. Which is also cheaper than constantly renting.
Do you want to do a one-time inspection? Or have an inspection done by professionals? Then you can hire us easily hire us and we will perform the inspection for you! We can offer you these different options:
Quality inspection with the desired result
Sonar and camera images, properly mounted and made user friendly.
Advice on possible next steps
3D models of pipelines and locks
What did we already achieve?
We have already carried out major jobs for various companies and organisations. For example, we regularly work together with the Dutch Department of Public Works, for which we have carried out major assignments. We have also inspected many pipelines at Shell Rheinland, the largest refinery in Germany! We are a regular supplier of Shell Rheinland and in addition we also work together with several smaller organisations regarding developments and inspections!
We have been very active for large and small companies in different areas, and continue to develop in order to give the best results. We would like to have you as our customer, and show you what we can do for you, and what we are capable of!
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To rescue drowning victims on call teams are used, consisting of divers and their supervisor. Based on a situation analysis, a grid is laid out in which the diver must search. If this is a grid of 25 square meters, for example, each meter must be searched piece by piece. This is labor intensive and takes a lot of time, time that drowning victims do not always have!
There is always a backup diver who can also be used to relieve or speed up the process, but the safety of the divers themselves must also be considered. No one wants to see extra injuries during a rescue mission. It is therefore important to combine effectiveness and safety for an ideal outcome, but how can this be done?
Who is responsible?
Netherlands Coastguard regulates ‘large’ areas including the coastal areas (Wadden Sea North Sea), the streams near Zeeland and the IJsselmeer. In addition, there are 2 possibilities, a safety region calls in the KNRM, (this however only concerns the inland waterways, including rivers and lakes.) or the safety region takes action itself without communication with the KNRM.
In the latter case, the respective safety region calls on its own equipment. Here they often choose who or what is fastest on the spot to carry out the required actions. (Quote from Safety Region Midden-West Brabant: “In practice, this will therefore be done by the best-equipped party”) This concerns the execution of Search and Rescue missions.
What are the results?
The first thing to state is that we have deep respect for the men and women who work in this sector! And of course, if they had a method that didn’t work at all, this would have been eliminated long ago. So the results are not purely negative.
Results vary by action and situation. In turbid water it is more difficult for a diver to search, and he or she must be extra careful to keep himself or herself safe. Searching by touch here therefore takes a very long time. In clear water situations the search is often already easier and the diver can work better..
The desired result is always to get the drowning person out of the water alive! But unfortunately this is not always possible. If a drowning person has been trapped underwater for several minutes, the chance of survival are slim. This is very unfortunate, but even then it is important to get this drowning person above water. This offers security and closure options to family and friends of the deceased.
How can we help?
So the desired result is not always achieved yet! This is a big problem, which we can reduce. With the underwater drones there are more possibilities underwater and this will therefore improve the response and search time!
We are able to:
Reduce the search time:
We can reduce the search time by scanning out in front of the diver with the sonar, thus reducing the search area. (Visibility up to 30 meters on the sonar!!!)
Giving sight in turbid water, so images are not purely by touch.
Helping with the search in another area, cutting the search time in half.
Contain the risks to diving teams:
Conduct safety and risk analysis prior to dive, and identify hazardous areas to the diver.
Entering unsafe areas themselves.
Be able to monitor divers for safety during the dive, and assist with problems if necessary.
Helping to surface drowning victims:
With the grapple, we can attach ourselves to the drowning person, and help get them to the surface.
Float above or against a drowning victim, and let a diver swim down via the thether.
So, as stated above, we offer many different benefits, which each person has to weigh for themselves. Our main views are about safety, of everyone above and below the water. This can be done by inspecting before and after a diving action, analyzing images and situations and evaluating them.
The ROVs can take a beating, and would rather get into a (potentially) unsafe situation than you. Drones may come with a price tag, but you can’t say this about human lives!
A sidescan sonar is a sonar that is hung on the sides of ships, hence the name. It can also be attached under ships or separately. This sonar takes images of the bottom of the sea, rivers or lakes. These are images that are therefore taken from above. A sidescan sonar often has sharp images and is useful for quick analysis of bottoms. There are many different types of sidescan sonars, for specific product information and the right tuning we recommend you to visit the website of Blueprint Subsea.
asily explained: a sidescan sonar takes sonar images of the bottom from above. This shows very detailed images.
What is a side scan sonar capable of?
A sidescan sonar can be attached to the side or bottom of ships for bottom analysis. Usually one is attached to both sides of a ship, for overlapping images and a wider spectrum. This sonar can take different images and find objects on the bottom
With these images, both size and design can be mapped, providing a reasonable picture of the objects on the ground. This often allows one to see what an object is, and how it is laying on the ground.
What is the best use of it?
The side scan sonar is best used for general bottom scans. The entire bottom can be scanned and if there are deviations from normality, a good image can be used for object analysis. For example, wrecks, drownings and rocks can be detected. For inspection of large areas, these sonars are ideal, they scan the bottom in detail and provide an excellent image quality for further analysis.Therefore, it is a useful product!
What is missing for a good analysis?
The side scan sonars are good, and can easily be used for bottom scans. But there are drawbacks to this as well:
Only image from above
Difficult to assess situations
Because the image is only from above, the size of objects can be mapped, but not their height. Whether a piece of rock is one or three meters high can make a lot of difference in rescue operations.
In addition, the situation of objects on the bottom cannot be mapped either. For example, the bottom of a wreckage may be broken, or may have become completely jammed. This cannot be seen from above.
This is one of the images that can be made with the sidescan sonar!
From this image you can see that there is a wreck of a ship on the bottom, and what the size of this wreck is. How high this wreck is, however what the bottom and sides look like cannot be determined from here.
How can the ROV fill this gap?
The above situations leave a gap in analyses plans for operations. With a ROV with forward looking sonar, these gaps can be mapped quickly and accurately.
These underwater drones can sail to the bottom and map the situation, making analysis of images complete! With the additions of underwater drones (ROVs), there are images from above, and 360 degree views of all possible angles around situations. This can be done through forward looking sonar or with the 4k – UHD camera.
This puts the analysis of operations in a better picture, allowing rescue or salvage operations to be initiated.
In this image, the condition of a shipwreck is well depicted; from the top, it was not so clear what this wreck looked like.With drones, the images can also be viewed from the side, and the condition of wrecks can be determined more easily.
Deploying underwater drones in rescue operations (of drowning victims)
It can also make a difference in rescue operations of drowning victims. A drowning person is generally difficult to see on images from side scan sonars. An estimate can be made from the images from above and determined to be a drowning person, but with real-time images of the drowning person, there is much more certainty.
This is a sidescan sonar image, presumably of a drowning person. To know exactly what is going on here, something or someone must be sent to the bottom. For that purpose there is nothing faster and more efficient than an underwater drone from Deep Trekker!
When it is determined that a drowning person is on the bottom, normally a diving team has to be called in to determine the exact situation and to pull the drowning person out of the water. When an underwater drone is added to the equipment as standard, a drone can be underwater within 5 minutes to carry out an analysis, which is much faster! The images from the underwater drone can also be viewed immediately from dry land, allowing the situation to be assessed and the correct actions to be determined.
This also offers the possibility to immediately bring the drowning person to the surface, with the grippers that can be attached to the REVOLUTION the drowning person can be brought to the surface carefully, and within 10 minutes of the assessment already be on the surface! This is a huge time saver and is therefore very efficient, and actually indispensable in the toolkit of search and rescue departments.
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In the world of underwater drones, there are many manufacturers, each with their unique points. Deep Trekker is one of them. This Canadian company has now become one of the market leaders in the field of underwater drones and robots!
Deep Trekker’s products are innovative and provide good solutions to existing problems, such as:
Security
Data processing
Deployment
We (H2O-Drones) chose Deep Trekker out of several points of view. They are known for quality and durability. Our corporate identity should also be quality, we do not want to be associated with bad products! Deep Trekker is one of the forerunners in the market in terms of technology and innovation. This makes it fun and challenging to be the exclusive salesman for the Netherlands. And a salesman for Germany and Belgium.
We primarily use only two underwater drones: the DTG 3 and the REVOLUTION. For inspections, these are the best drones available on the market today, in the context of onshore inspections. We mostly use them for the inspections of our customers.
DTG3:
The DTG3 is a relatively small drone, which can mostly be used to inspect pipelines. Due to its size, it fits perfectly into pipes and tubes up to 500mm. The DTG 3 has a 270o rotating camera that can easily inspect both the top and bottom of pipes, locks, tubes and water tanks. Because the camera can rotate at this angle, it is easy to hold the drone in position and only move the camera. Because the camera records in 4k-UHD, the images are always of quality if you want to review them later.
Besides the camera, the drone is also extremely maneuverable, which makes inspecting and cruising with the drone never boring. The manoeuvrability allows for faster inspections, which saves a lot of time in the long run. Next, to being manoeuvrable and allow for fast inspections, the battery lasts up to 8 hours. This is more than enough for a full day of inspections. If, on rare occasions, you need to inspect longer in a day? Then within 90 minutes drone is fully charged again and can last another 8 hours!
In addition to the small pipes, the DTG 3 also feels at home in larger waters. For example, this drone can dive up to 200 meters deep. At these depths, of course, there is not much light, but this is not a problem for the drone either! The drone is set up for dark areas and can also obtain good images here, this is due to an extra set of lights built into the DTG 3 at the Expert and Navigator packages!!
REVOLUTION:
The REVOLUTION is a larger and heavier drone than the DTG 3, and weighs 26 kilo. We use the REVOLUTION mostly for larger inspections. Because of 6 thrusters (propellers) it is possible to move in all directions, even laterally!
The REVOLUTION is also the only drone in the world that has a rotary head system. This allows the entire head with camera, lights, laser scaler and sonar to rotate freely without moving the rest of the drone. With Deep Trekker’s BRIDGE technology, it is possible for the drone to hover perfectly in the water and stay in the same position, even with slight currents. The 260o rotating head can then be used to inspect both top and bottom.
Because of its size and weight, the REVOLUTION offers endless possibilities for accessories, from Deep Trekker or homemade!
For example, we ourselves always use sonar, a grabber at the front (to protect the drone) and possibly laser scalers. In addition, we have added our own cameras and lights for research purposes. The possibilities are endless and the REVOLUTION can sail even with a few extra kilos attached!
Also by using the GPS there are many deployable possibilities. It is easy to determine the location in Search and Rescue missions, to see how far this drone is in pipelines during inspection, and to always know accurately where the drone is.
The batteries are also easy to replace, so missions and operations can always be resumed quickly by using a spare battery!
Services:
We offer various options regarding inspections. From Deep Trekker we stimulate sales in the Netherlands and Belgium, but we also support the companies and individuals who are not yet ready to buy options. We do this through rental, where we are hired to inspect and deliver data.
If you want to buy a drone, the cost is high once, and you will benefit from it for a long period of time. You can choose which drone you want, and what kind of package is required for this. This depends on the situation, the objects you want to inspect and the size of the passages in relation to the drones. We will of course help you with your choice and can assist and advise you. We even offer a warranty on the drones, because we are convinced by the quality. The warranty is at least 1 year!
If you do not plan to use the drone for regular use, or you prefer that professionals inspect it themselves (because you do not have the time) or the use will only be for a short period of time, it is wise to rent instead of buying. Renting always includes:
A professional operator
tailored Drone
Accessories to get every job done right
Of course, there are a number of additional options when renting, for that you can always contact us!
We are therefore the proudest retailer in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany for Deep Trekker and hope to be able to represent the interests of this company for even longer, in order to create more support for safety.
For more information, visit the the website of Deep Trekker, or follow them on their social media pages.
Here there is also a lot of silt on the bottom, but the pipeline is otherwise in good condition.
