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lines. All of these things are well-suited to
being monitored by drones.”
“Everything we collect is geo-referenced.
We can monitor fixed areas now within
the visual line of sight and we can moni-
tor much bigger areas as beyond vision
lines of sight becomes an option, which
is something we’ve been working on with
Transport Canada.”
SERENITY CAN FLY FOR
EIGHT HOURS
ING has also developed Serenity, a fixed
wing plane that can fly for eight hours,
take off using a runway or catapult and is
suited to multiple environments. Known
for its “continuous eyes in the sky”, the
UAV boasts a 100-kilometre radio line of
sight and is perfect for a variety of surveil-
lance and monitoring applications. It’s also
been used in search and rescue situations,
and ice and forest fire monitoring.
Incorporating robotic aviation into many of
these scenarios is becoming a viable op-
tion for more and more companies. Not
only can they mitigate risk and gather
