Percepto: Autonomous drone technology and industrial solutions 🚁🏭🧠

Percepto is the global leader in autonomous inspection and monitoring solutions for industrial sites. 🚀 By integrating AI-powered autonomous drones (known as "drone-in-a-box" systems) and a powerful software platform, Percepto is revolutionizing the way critical infrastructure, energy assets, mining, and other industrial organizations monitor, inspect, and secure their operations. Percepto enables continuous, remote monitoring that eliminates human error, reduces employee risk, and delivers accurate, actionable insights.

Our purpose and vision

Percepto's primary purpose is to maximize the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of industrial facilities through fully autonomous visual intelligence. We empower companies to monitor assets 24/7, identify potential risks early, and implement predictive maintenance strategies.

Our vision is to create a world where autonomous robotics and AI take productivity, safety, and sustainability in industry to new levels. We believe our technology complements human labor and ushers in a new era of industrial automation where processes are leaner, risks are lower, and insights are deeper.

Core solution: Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring)

Percepto's core solution is the Percepto AIM (Autonomous Inspection & Monitoring) platform, a holistic system consisting of hardware and software:

• The "Drone-in-a-Box" approach (Percepto Air series): 📦

  • Autonomous flight and landing: The drone takes off, flies its mission, and returns fully automatically to its weatherproof base station (the "hangar"), where it is recharged and safely awaits its next mission.

  • 24/7/365 Availability: The drones are ready for use at any time, regardless of weather conditions (IP55 rating for rain, dust, extreme temperatures and wind) or time of day (day and night vision).

  • Remote operation: Missions can be started, monitored, and completed remotely at any time and from anywhere in the world.

  • Integrated sensors: Equipped with HD RGB and radiometric thermal imaging cameras for visual inspections, temperature measurements, and leak detection. Some models also offer Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) for gas leak detection.

  • Advanced safety features: Integrated parachute and autonomous flight decisions in case of low battery or GPS loss according to safety standards.

• Percepto AIM software platform: 🧠

  • AI-powered analytics: Automatically analyze collected visual data (images, videos, thermal images) to automatically detect anomalies, changes, leaks, fires, and security breaches.

  • Real-time notifications: Instant alerts and reports on critical events so operators can respond quickly.

  • Digital Twins & Trend Analysis: Creates high-resolution digital twins of assets and tracks changes over time to enable predictive maintenance and asset optimization.

  • Mission management: Planning, management and monitoring of automated flight missions.

  • Collaboration and reporting features: Enables easy sharing of insights and generates automatic reports for various stakeholders.

  • Agile integration: The platform is designed to integrate data from other robots and sensors and is compatible with third-party drones such as DJI.

Advantages and target group

Percepto solutions offer significant benefits for industrial users:

• Increased safety: Minimizes the risk to human personnel by performing dangerous inspections from the drone. 🛡️

• Optimized operations: Automated and consistent data collection enables more precise analyses and more informed decisions. ⚙️

• Cost savings: Reduce manual labor hours, travel costs, and downtime through predictive maintenance. 💰

• Real-time insights: Instant notifications and AI analytics enable rapid response to issues before they escalate. 📊

• Improved compliance: Consistent data capture and audit trails facilitate regulatory compliance and insurance claim validation. ✅

• Scalability: Easily deploy single or multiple drone-in-a-box systems to cover large or distributed locations.

• Sustainability: Supporting emission reduction through autonomous gas leak detection.

Target group:

• Utilities: Monitoring of power plants, substations, solar farms, wind farms, and transmission lines. ⚡

• Oil & Gas: Inspection of refineries, pipelines, drilling rigs, and terminals to detect leaks and damage. ⛽

• Mining: Monitoring of mining areas, dumps, equipment, and safety areas. ⛏️

• Critical infrastructure: Monitoring ports, airports, bridges, and other important facilities. 🌉

• Manufacturing industry: Monitoring large production facilities and equipment status. 🏭

• Telecommunications: Inspection of masts and transmission systems. 📡

Technology and functionality

The heart of the Percepto solution is the combination of the robust, permanently installed on-site Percepto Air drone and the cloud-based Percepto AIM platform . The drone is stored and loaded in a protective station (the hangar). When needed, it launches fully automatically, flies predefined or ad-hoc missions, collects data with its RGB and thermal imaging cameras, and returns autonomously.

The collected data is securely uploaded to the Percepto AIM cloud. There, the AI engine analyzes the visual data using computer vision and machine learning. It compares the current data with historical images, detects anomalies, measures changes, and automatically generates reports and notifications. Users can access these insights via an intuitive dashboard or mobile app, create mission plans, and control the drone remotely. The platform is also designed to integrate data from other robots and sensors to provide an even more comprehensive picture of the facility.