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Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DroneGrid (Simplifying Aerial Intelligence)

Teaser

Summary

The market of business services using drones is still young yet expected to grow exponentially in the years to come. The drone industry faces several key challenges that prevent fast adoption of drone technology by mainstream enterprises into their daily operations:
- Complex drone regulations
- Expensive drone systems
- Enterprises not used to deal with drone operators or drone hardware
- 3rd party drone operators are not domain experts in the customerâ€™s businesses
- End-to-end solutions that can integrate into existing enterprise systems

Sitemark enables 2D and 3D aerial inspections of assets using drones and solves several problems of enterprise adoption of drone technology.
Sitemark is a sophisticated aerial intelligence enterprise platform that revolutionises 2D and 3D inspections of assets using drones to collect actionable data that enables enterprises to take better decisions, improves staff safety, asset efficiency and digitise their field information. To make this happen, Sitemark builds on a unique combination of three technologies:
1. An enterprise platform that enables its customers to work with aerial data and integrate aerial intelligence into their workflows in a seamless easy to use manner.
2. Flight automation algorithms that significantly simplify data capture for complex missions by automating drone pre-flight planning, actual flight and post processing. To enable high consistency within data acquisition which is key for providing industry specific analytics.
3. An API layer that enables various third-party services to be integrated into the platform that significantly improve data quality, and ultimately the customer, drone pilot experience.
This complete end-to-end control enables Sitemark to deliver solutions for its customers that are unique in the market and provide a significant competitive advantage that few players are able to match.
As part of the H2020 SME project Sitemark is evolving to become the commercial drone system that provides an end-to-end solution towards multiple industries. In order to achieve the project goal, the solution needs to consist of a full-fledged and intelligent cloud, a smart drone pilot app and integration into commercially available drones. As part of the H2020 SME project Sitemark is improving the 3D capabilities as well as deploying enhanced machine learning abilities for further detection of new anomalies within existing and new industries which are key to international scaling.

Work performed

As part of the H2020 SME project Sitemark has performed various trials across energy, construction and mining industries in over 10 countries. Pilot customers where trials were made public via blog posts or sharing at events included Engie, Vinci, Franki, Eneco, Orix and Enerparc with whom trials were performed in Chile, Senegal, US, Japan, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. Results from these events were shared either through social media or industry events at conferences together with our customers such as:
- Presenting the Sitemark platform together with Enerparc at the Solar Asset Management North America in March 2019.
- Presentation on Construction Monitoring and Inspections with Eurovia (Vinci) at the Commercial UAV Expo in Amsterdam in April 2019.
- Presenting the Sitemark inspection results from trial projects in Chile together with Engie
(Laborelec) at the Commercial UAV Conference in Amsterdam in April 2019.
- Presentation on Orix solar inspection trials and results at the Solar Asset Management Event in Japan in May 2019.
This was done primarily to ensure high product/partner satisfaction, strong overall product/industry fit and to develop a better understanding of the Return on Investment (ROI) in that specific geography and user group. Another reason for performing trials over multiple test sites in different locations was to ensure adequate data was being gathered to train the machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms during the course of the H2020 SME project.
As a result of the customer workshops organized by Sitemark, the Partner platform has been developed which will allow pilot customers to log in to the operations, user management, create companies, have operational overview and deliver the final results to their end customers.
The Pilot App has been developed to enable pilots to perform automated flights to ensure that consistent data acquisition standards are met regardless of location, pilot skill and hardware. Because of the automated terrain adjustment feature in the Sitemark Pilot App, the drone automatically adapts to the different heights of the terrain to ensure consistent image resolution when flying on difficult terrains.

Final results

Sitemark understands the responsibility to provide a positive contribution to the world.
Here are the four sustainable development goals Sitemark tackles with its solutions:
1. Affordable and Clean Energy - One of the largest markets Sitemark operates in is the Energy sector, and in particular the Renewables market. Sitemark provides organizations in the solar and wind industry with technology that can help them maximize the efficiency of their operations. Through the course of the year and trial and non-trial projects Sitemark was able to increase power production by on average 4% for customers such as Orix (as published in Customer Webinar with Orix on ) and on average 2% for customers such as Engie (as published in Customer Webinar with Engie on 04 September 2019).
2. Decent Work and Economic Growth - A key component of Sitemarkâ€™s end-to-end solution are the drone pilots that facilitate the data acquisition process. Sitemark puts local drone pilots at work, creating a common bridge between these pilots, the enterprises, and industry analytics experts. Sitemark is also proud of the people who contribute every day to build the ground technology that helps its customers every single day.
3. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure - Sitemark platform provides a comprehensive technology asset to the Infrastructure and Construction industry. The Construction and Infrastructure solution provides enterprises with the ability to fully manage workflows to their specific needs: from planning with Sitemarkâ€™s surveyor-grade terrain functionality to 3D scan capabilities to monitor site progress. Sitemarkâ€™s relationship with Vinci and Franki has been significantly strengthened thanks to various pilot projects performed over the course of the last year. Thanks to the trial projects achieved several industry milestones, some of which include:
a. Be the first company in the world to have Terrain Follow Feature on DJI drones, even before DJI themselves. (Challenging Terrain? No Problem!)
b. Be the first company to be integrated into iTWO CAD systems, a leader in civil construction projects in Europe for highway projects.
c. Build a strategic partnership with the worldâ€™s largest construction company Vinci.
4. Responsible Consumption and Production - Sitemark during the 1st half of this project has very much focused its attention on developing and stabilizing the solution for the Energy and Construction verticals. During the course of the second half of the project, Sitemark will focus onto the mining industry with its mining partner Actemium and Eurovia, which are subsidiary companies within the Vinci group.