UAS Remote Inspection System Real-Time Imaging Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Building inspections are time-consuming and costly due to the need for experts to travel long distances, which can be prohibitive and risky, especially for multi-story structures or hazardous sites.
Innovation Solution
A remote inspection system utilizing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that captures and distributes real-time imaging content over a network, allowing authorized users to remotely access and inspect structures via a distribution session, enabling UASs to autonomously fly and capture images while communicating control signals and sensor data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If experts travel to perform inspections, then inspection quality is maintained, but travel cost and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) equipped with cameras and sensors to capture imaging content of structures, creating a visual copy that can be analyzed by inspectors remotely. This eliminates the need for experts to travel physically to the inspection site while maintaining inspection quality through high-resolution imaging and real-time data transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces a UAS as an intermediary between the inspector and the structure being inspected. The UAS captures imaging content and transmits it to remote inspectors, serving as a mediator that delivers inspection data without requiring the inspector's physical presence at the location.
2Productivity
If multiple inspectors are deployed, then comprehensive inspection coverage is achieved, but cost increases prohibitively
Solution Approach 1:
The UAS system performs multiple inspection functions simultaneously - capturing imaging content from various angles, recording sensor data, and providing real-time transmission - all through a single platform. This multi-functional capability replaces the need for multiple specialized inspectors while maintaining comprehensive inspection coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
A single UAS can capture comprehensive imaging content that would otherwise require multiple inspectors to document from different positions. The imaging content serves as a complete visual record that can be analyzed by one or more remote inspectors, eliminating the need for multiple on-site personnel.
3Reliability
If inspectors access structures remotely, then safety risks are reduced, but real-time monitoring capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The UAS system enables continuous real-time transmission of imaging content and sensor data during flight, allowing remote inspectors to monitor the inspection process continuously without interruption. This maintains the continuity of useful action by providing uninterrupted data flow from the inspection site to the remote observer.
Solution Approach 2:
The UAS acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between remote inspectors and the inspection site, providing continuous real-time data transmission through wireless communication systems. This mediator ensures that inspectors maintain full awareness of the inspection progress and can respond to findings immediately, despite physical distance.
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AI summary
In some embodiments, systems and methods are provided to capture and distribute imaging content. Some embodiments, provide remote inspection systems, comprising: an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) base station control system that wirelessly communicates with an UAS, and comprises: a wireless transceiver; a control circuit; and a memory wherein the control circuit: receives imaging content, captured by a camera of the UAS; establishes a network connection with a content distribution system and activate a distribution session; and communicates the imaging content to the content distribution system that enables multiple remote authorized rendering systems to access the networked content distribution system over the Internet, join the distribution session, and receive over the Internet in real time the imaging content allowing each of the rendering systems to visually play back the imaging content such that a user at each of the multiple rendering systems can watch the imaging content in real time.