Aerial Inspections with Drone
Aerial inspections with Drones are an interesting alternative to traditional inspections as they allow important savings in time, organisation, and costs. Moreover, risks for personnel are eliminated.
They also enable access to difficult areas, in critical and high-risk situations for man, working in safety and with the utmost precision.
Inspecting industrial installations, cranes, complex structures or those difficult to reach has always been complicated and economically disadvantageous.
Today, thanks to the drone technology is it possible to collect very high-quality and detailed images taken very near the object in question.
ECO Certificazioni collaborates with a team consisting of expert and ENAC (Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile, National Civil Aviation Authority) certified pilots, operators qualified to carry out critical operations, and certified thermographic operators to conduct aerial technical inspections with the production of video/photographic materials and aero-thermographic reliefs on buildings, lands, photovoltaic installations, and industrial plants.
Aerial Inspections with ECO Drones
ECO Certificazioni carries out numerous inspection activities with Drones in a variety of settings:
- CRANE INSPECTION:
– VERIFICATION OF MOVING PARTS
– VERIFICATION OF LOADS
– VERIFICATION OF COUNTERWEIGHTS - TECHNICAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC AND THERMOGRAPHIC AERIAL INSPECTIONS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE
- SURVEYS FOR PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION 3D MODELS
- THERMOGRAPHIC INSPECTION OF PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS
- AERIAL INSPECTIONS FOR INSURANCE ASSESSMENTS
- MULTISPECTRAL INSPECTIONS FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE
- THERMOGRAPHIC INSPECTIONS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS
Upon conclusion of these activities, high-definition, georeferenced, certified material is provided that is also valid in legal settings; moreover, a complete inspection report is delivered with the details found highlighted and valid for tender participation.
Safety requirements
The use of drones for civil and military purposes is now very widespread, making it necessary to establish rules to avoid potentially negative consequences due to their use and sustain the competitiveness of the EU aeronautic industry.
The Commission Delegated Regulation EU 945/2019 relative, among other things, to the technical requirements of drones, and the Commission Implementing Regulation EU 947/2019, which regulates both the user requirements and the methods of use, meet this need.
Moreover, in order to guarantee the presence of the safety requirements in “unmanned aircraft systems”, UAS), the Commission indicates the Regulation EC 765/2008, calling for the CE marking of the products, which can be applied after having carried out adequate controls entrusted to accredited and notified conformity evaluation bodies.
The UAS that are not considered toys pursuant to Directive 2009/48/EC should be in conformity with essential pertinent safety and health care requirements as outlined in Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), to the extent that this directive be applied to them, provided that these safety and health care requirements are not intrinsically linked to UAS flight safety. In cases in which said safety and health care requirements are intrinsically linked to flight safety, only this regulation is applied.
COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2019/945 of 12 March 2019
Therefore, according to this regulation:
- “UAS that are not toys within the meaning of Directive 2009/48/EC shall comply with the relevant health and safety requirements set out in Directive 2006/42/EC only in relation to risks other than those linked to the safety of the UA flight.”
- For some types of drones the intervention of the notified body (B+C or H as outlined in the machinery directive) is mandatory
- They are subject to the sound power marking obligation – standard ISO 3744:2010 + specific standards [exclusively for Class 1 and 3 UAS with no fixed wings]
- For some types of drones (larger ones), the personnel operating them must be certified to do so.