A Sooner State utility wants to reduce power outage timeframes sooner rather than later and, you guessed it, drones are the weapon of choice. Oklahoma Gas and Electric plans to deploy several multi-rotor inspection drones equipped with sensors and hi-res cameras to expedite post-storm assessments and pre-plan power line and wind turbine maintenance. “We used drones for … [Read more...] about Drones Help OK Utility Restore Power Faster
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Developing Better Tornado Warnings with Drones
The University of Colorado Boulder has been named as the lead research institution on a 1.9 million dollar federal grant to develop drones designed to provide enhanced monitoring and data-based research of severe storms. The project, named "Severe-Storm Targeted Observation and Robotic Monitoring" or "STORM" will try to increase drones' current ability to collect data … [Read more...] about Developing Better Tornado Warnings with Drones
