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Our customers, including oil/gas companies, regulators, and drone companies, use the Sawback EdgeFuse, an innovative approach to complex sensor integration and data processing, to find undocumented infrastructure over various landscapes, ranging from Pennsylvania (USA) to British Columbia (Canada).

Drones equipped with the Sawback EdgeFuse can be deployed with multiple sensor technologies, including magnetometer, ground penetrating radar, and gas, to cover large and complex areas where legacy oil/gas activity has occurred, and reduce the time spent in the field, while keeping their personnel safe.

The data from these sensors is then automatically processed, with probable locations of oil/gas wells identified within minutes.  Using this data, customers can reduce their liability from unknown oil/gas infrastructure, identify emissions and other pollution, and to support EPA Class VI permit applications.

Projects that customers have done to date include flying a 12,500 acre (50 sq.km) area in a heavily forest with steep terrain, and seeing a 60% reduction in the amount of effort and cost.

EPA Class VI permit applications for carbon capture and storage projects require investigations if the project area has legacy oil/gas wells. These wells are often located in areas that are inaccessible to helicopters, grown over with heavy vegetation, steep terrain, or waterbodies, making them expensive to find through traditional ground surveys.

Using the Sawback solution, drones equipped with the EdgeFuse and magnetometers can make this daunting task easier. Being able to cover large areas of land, and processing the data in-flight, makes this a more cost-effective, comprehensive, and safe, solution to find these lost wells.

Drones are our specialty. We know that drone operators spend a lot of time in integrating and deploying sophisticated drone-mounted sensors, and less time flying. We also know that operators need to take the raw data, and turn it into actionable reports and visualizations quickly, and accurately.

Using the Sawback EdgeFuse, RPAS operators can quickly connect and power multiple sensors, including magnetometers, ground penetrating radar, and gas detectors. With an easy to use interface, and weatherproof connectors, drone operators can spend more time flying, with confidence that their sensors are being flown properly and collecting high quality data, and reducing the amount of re-work needed when things don’t go quite right.

Operators also use the EdgeFuse to take care of fusing and processing the data in-flight, and see the results in near-real time. When the data is sent up to the Sawback cloud software platform, the data reporting takes place automatically, and end-users can get the reports in the most popular formats.

Want to learn more? Contact us to discuss with our team, and how we can help streamline your flight and data processing operations.

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