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Sky-Futures’ end-to-end enterprise solutions including training packages, services and software solutions enable enterprises to perform safe and cost-effective drone inspections of a variety of vertical infrastructures.
Published August 24, 2020
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Updated December 22, 2020
Industrial Decarbonization
Power & Utilities
Asset Management & Digitization
Electrification & Efficiency
Renewables & Energy Storage
Product Overview
Overview
Sky-Futures is a provider of drone-based inspection services to the global industrial markets. The UK-based company raised over $13 million over 4 years and was acquired in 2019 by the international asset maintenance management company ICR Integrity
The company utilizes strong expertize and AI to develop smart data services suited for industrial customer needing enterprise data storage and management solutions for drone inspection data. Sky-future established itself as one of the leaders providing drone-based inspection services to the global industrial markets. They're in the process of developing sensors and technology solutions for the drone-based industrial inspection market.
Sky-Futures drone inspection solution offers a proven method for customers to speed up their inspection process while improving safety across the board. With drone-driven data collection, analysis and storage options that meet the needs of customers based on size, location, and other factors.
Business Model
SAAS solution based on the number of assets bring inspected.
Technology Innovations
While they do have some proprietary technology around sensing and data storage, most of sky-futures technology is actually from third party provider Inspection2. When ICR Integrity acquired Sky-futures, they did not buy the AI technology that was still in early development, as part of the deal - that technology was spun off into it's own company and is now providing those capabilities back to sky-futures on contract.
Applications
We bring unparalleled experience in drone-based inspections across O&G, power & utility, and renewable assets, underpinned by a combination of specialist in-house engineering resources and class-leading analytics capabilities
For electricity transmission, distribution and generation clients, Sky-Futures provides an image analysis and mission planning platform together with the option of a fully managed service or a solution enabling clients to rapidly build an in-house capability