That invention opened new avenues in the field of inspection and surveying and we saw borescopes equipped with intense illumination for viewing spaces or chambers such as cylinders of internal combustion engines, combustion chambers of jet engines, turbine housing blades, gun bores and tubes. A new dimension was added – safety of the inspector – when these borescopes were used for inspection of hazardous areas like nuclear reaction chambers, internal viewing of furnaces and so on. Today’s borescopes are flexible, illuminated, equipped with latest scanning & zooming controls and are capable of delivering inspection data right to inspector’s laptop using drone inspection software such as BlueVu.

That was not the end of the story about remote vision inspection. Last decade saw drones evolving beyond their military origin to become inspection drones introduced in the industry as the latest remote vision inspection gadgets. This has been such a smart innovation that it captured the attention of infrastructure and asset managers in no time – first invention in 100 years that offers remote vision inspection & survey solutions much better, quicker, broader in application scope and more diversified than the technology used in borescope, periscope and the like. Inspection drones are the eyes of engineers and inspectors in the hardest to reach areas, be that a bridge supported on piles, overhead pipe crossing or an offshore production deck. Inspecting these structures for anomalies has become possible without the need for expensive access vehicles or potentially dangerous ladders and scaffoldings.

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