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Percepto: FAA Approval “to Operate Full Drone Fleet by One Operator — The True Holy Grail!”

Per­cep­to, a U.S‑based drone com­pa­ny spe­cial­is­ing in inspec­tion and mon­i­tor­ing, has made a major break­through this week when the FAA grant­ed “a nation­wide waiv­er to oper­ate a full fleet of Per­cep­to drones remote­ly by one oper­a­tor”, reports a press release.

Pre­vi­ous Per­cep­to oper­a­tions required one oper­a­tor to mon­i­tor and oper­ate one drone, but this new approval allows for com­mer­cial oper­a­tion of up to 30 drones, simul­ta­ne­ous­ly with one pilot, “redefin­ing drone automa­tion and remote oper­a­tions.” This will have pos­i­tive ram­i­fi­ca­tions across the gen­er­al drone indus­try, whether for food deliv­ery or car­ry­ing larg­er and heav­ier car­go.

Percepto’s clients in the indus­try of oil and gas, for exam­ple, will great­ly ben­e­fit as one oper­a­tor reduces oper­a­tional expens­es and increas­es effi­cien­cy. More­over, it low­ers costs for new entrants seek­ing to employ drones, while encour­ag­ing more mar­ket play­ers to estab­lish drone-relat­ed pro­grams.

The release states, “This waiv­er builds on Percepto’s years of reg­u­la­to­ry efforts, allow­ing for safe nation­wide drone BVLOS oper­a­tions with no humans on site or the need for expen­sive radars, using remote pre-flight checks, exten­sive automa­tion, and now the abil­i­ty to oper­ate up to 30 drone-in-a-box sys­tems simul­ta­ne­ous­ly.” 

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Adding, “It also comes as the last piece of the remote oper­a­tions puz­zle, along­side Percepto’s state-of-the-art drone-in-a-box hard­ware and autonomous inspec­tion soft­ware.”

Ariel Avi­tan, Per­cep­to co-Founder and CCO, com­ment­ed, “For years, Per­cep­to has been lead­ing the remote inspec­tion rev­o­lu­tion – both on the reg­u­la­to­ry and tech­nol­o­gy fronts. Sim­ply put, with large-scale remote inspec­tions we’ll see few­er large-scale safe­ty and envi­ron­men­tal fail­ures across crit­i­cal infra­struc­ture.”

Neta Gliks­man, Per­cep­to VP of Pol­i­cy and Gov­ern­ment Affairs, remarked, “Per­cep­to is very grate­ful for the FAA’s approval of this waiv­er, the true holy grail.”

Ido Biger, U.S Delek Chief Infor­ma­tion and Data Offi­cer, added, “Percepto’s approval from the FAA to remote­ly oper­ate drone fleets sets the stage for trans­for­ma­tive advance­ments in var­i­ous indus­tries.” Delek Group is an Israeli hold­ing con­glom­er­ate main­ly oper­at­ing in the petro­le­um indus­try.

Back­ground

List­ed in TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inven­tions of 2021, Percepto’s AIM plat­form ful­ly auto­mates visu­al data work­flows from cap­ture to insight, lever­ag­ing the Per­cep­to Air drone-in-a-box. Using advanced machine learn­ing and AI, Per­cep­to AIM pro­vides an end-to-end autonomous inspec­tion and mon­i­tor­ing solu­tion to assess risk, min­imise down­time, dri­ve effi­cien­cy, increase safe­ty and reduce oper­a­tional costs.

Percepto’s clients include Siemens Ener­gy, Delek U.S, Koch Fer­tilis­er and ICL Dead Sea Works. The com­pa­ny is the recip­i­ent of mul­ti­ple pres­ti­gious awards includ­ing Edi­son Gold Award and Frost & Sul­li­van Glob­al Enabling Tech­nol­o­gy Lead­er­ship Award.

Per­cep­to co-Founders — Ariel Avi­tan ® (Pho­to: David Garb)

Per­cep­to is help­ing pio­neer the way for oth­er drone com­pa­nies work­ing in a vari­ety of fields to fol­low.

For more infor­ma­tion

www.percepto.co

https://www.delek-group.com/

(Top image: Cred­it — Per­cep­to)

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