Sphere Drones, a key player in the drone industry, has introduced a self-sustaining mobile drone platform, HubX. This platform enables businesses to collect aerial data across various terrains and remote areas.
HubX: A New Addition to Drone Technology
HubX is an all-terrain, solar-powered, and internet-enabled mobile drone platform. It can be operational within 30 minutes, allowing businesses to capture and deliver aerial data back to the office with a single click. This platform aims to simplify Drone-in-a-Box (DiaB) deployment for mine sites, farms, utilities, and emergency services. It also includes built-in redundancies to ensure continuous operation in remote areas and during network failures.
Paris Cockinos, CEO of Sphere Drones, stated, “HubX has been developed entirely at Sphere Drones’ Sydney headquarters for use by miners and utilities to streamline the most time-consuming surveying tasks, savings them thousands of hours and millions of dollars in the process.”
Adrian Wall, Survey Superintendent and Chief Remote Pilot at Yancoal’s Mt Thorley Warkworth site, sees the potential of HubX to streamline surveyors’ workloads, reduce their time in the field, and increase data collection frequency through the automation of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) operations. He added, “HubX includes everything you need to roll out a BVLOS (beyond visual line of sight) operation, it’s innovative, turnkey and portable which can help businesses like ours meet their daily operational requirements.”
According to a company announcement, Sphere Drones has assisted more than 11,000 clients, including 3,000 corporates, with drone-related services. A recent Federal Government study estimated that expanding drone use could save Australian businesses up to $10 billion over the next 20 years. The mining sector, along with agriculture, forestry, construction, and fisheries industries, is expected to benefit the most from these cost savings. The study also noted an increase in drone operation training and licensing in Australia, with close to 10,000 drones currently operating commercially.
Mr. Cockinos concluded, “Sphere Drones provides the game-changing benefits of drone technology to save costs and provide more efficiencies to miners and other organisations.”
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, a professional drone services marketplace, and a fascinated observer of the emerging drone industry and the regulatory environment for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles focused on the commercial drone space and is an international speaker and recognized figure in the industry. Miriam has a degree from the University of Chicago and over 20 years of experience in high tech sales and marketing for new technologies.
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