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Introduction

This documentation describes how a TV operator can record and manage data with the drone system ELIOS 2/3 and the software Inspector 5.0 from the company FLYABILITY and finally import the whole data package from the Flyability cloud to WinCan Web (see illustration below):

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Each drone flight consists on a high resolution video clip (format MOV) and a HTML file containing the points of interest (POI’s) the drone pilot has to set during the flight.

Requirements

All elements which are necessary for recording, managing and importing data from the ELIOS 2/3 drone systems are listed below:

Create project with the Inspector software

Download and install the latest premium version of the software Inspector 5.0 (Inspector-Software). The premium version is required to process and generate the flight path (trajectory) as well as the point cloud recorded during the flight. The software is free of charge for the first 30 days.

To be able to transfer later on the drone data from the Flyability to the WinCan cloud, the following 4 POI's have to be added:

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Step 1: start_manhole:

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Step 2: start_inspection

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Step 3: stop_inspection

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This is how the project looks like with the correct POI's including tags/markers in the Inspector software:

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In addition to the POI's, the following information is also imported into WinCan VX:

• The name entered for start_inspection will later be imported into WinCan VX as upstream manhole. If nothing is entered, WinCan VX will name the upper manhole like the flight number with the suffix "_1".

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• The name entered for stop_inspection will later be imported into WinCan VX as downstream manhole. If nothing is entered, WinCan VX will name the lower manhole like the flight number with the suffix "_2".

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• The flight name is imported as the section name

• The "Comment" field is imported into WinCan VX as an observation remark

The Inspector software finally calculates the trajectory of the flights and returns it as a point cloud:

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Upload drone data to Flyability cloud

• Register at the Flyability cloud service and save your login data (i.e. user name and password)

• Connect to the Internet and upload your project data from the software Inspector

• Launch the web browser Google CHROME and type the address https://cloud.flyability.com; next login with your Flyability user account.

• Check whether your drone project have been uploaded completely

Transfer drone data from Flyability to WinCan cloud

• Register at the WinCan cloud service and save your login data (i.e. user name and password)

• Launch any web browser (Chrome, FireFox, Edge) and type the address web.wincan.com; next sign in with your WinCan Web user account.

• Click on the button New Project and create a new project in WinCan Web, based on the damage standard used in your country:

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• Hit the command Project > Flyability import:

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• Enter the user credentials for your Flyability account and click on Log In:

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• Select the corresponding drone flights from the Asset list panel (1) and hit the command Import (2):

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After the import, the section records are displayed in WinCan Web and the the first observation of each section contains the reference (1) to the uploaded video:

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Section inspection in WinCan Web

WinCan Web is providing 2 possibilities of surveys for each section:

• Hit the button Add observation, play back the video clip and manually select the corresponding damage code.

• Activate the check box left to the section number and run an AI scan (AI=Artificial Intelligence), based on the attached video clip. The completed inspection will automatically be attached to the selected section.

Troubleshooting