This android bases its automatic movement through the installations on a unique process patented by the Salamanca-based technology company, inspired by the hunting strategies of the genet, the nocturnal creature that inhabits our holm oak forests, capable of moving with precision in the dark.
This more comprehensive analysis has been applied in a new way to transformer substations, offering greater traceability and worker safety - The technology allows damage assessment without the need for field visits, resulting in greater efficiency and a significant reduction in costs and CO2 emissions.
This robot is a revolutionary inspection system that improves efficiency by achieving automatic and digital predictive maintenance of electrical infrastructures, applied in a novel way to transformer substations, offering greater traceability and worker safety.
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This android bases its automatic movement through electrical installations on a unique process patented by the Salamanca-based technology company, inspired by the hunting strategies of the genet, the nocturnal creature that inhabits our holm oak forests, capable of moving with precision in the dark.
The robot automatically captures data from all the critical structures of the substation, thanks to high-resolution visible and thermographic image sensors, and sends it in real time via Orange's 5G network to the 'virtual control tower', located in Arborea's facilities in the
Once there, this data is processed to build a digital twin and detect, measure and quantify anomalies thanks to the Salamanca software platforms. In addition, the data is sent, also in real time, to various
Autonomous monitoring of a substation makes it possible to detect incipient faults more quickly and efficiently, which is also an advantage in the event of an emergency requiring immediate monitoring. In this way, the technology makes it possible to assess damage without the need to travel to the site, resulting in greater efficiency and a significant reduction in costs and CO2 emissions.
This new process has been the result of combining
The antecursors were an elite troop created by Caesar to move in advance of the Roman legions and decide the way forward.
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The automatic supervision of infrastructures is a line of technological development undertaken more than ten years ago by Arborea, which is currently focusing its efforts on providing efficient and autonomous inspection systems for large offshore wind farms, which are key to
This development by Arborea is supported by several patents held by the company, which is very active in the generation of technological intellectual property, mostly based on biomimetic principles. Biomimetic technology is inspired by designs or mechanisms in nature.
In recent years, Arborea's drones have thoroughly audited more than 4,500 blades at Iberdrola Renovables' onshore wind farms in
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