HyLight
Description
HyLight builds and operates autonomous airships for long range monitoring. They focus on detecting methane leaks on pipelines and defects on power lines.
Their innovation, the HyLighter, is a crossover between drone and airship technology. Like a drone, their solution is easily controllable and transportable. And, like an airship, their solution is extremely energy-efficient, enabling them to fly for up to 10 hours at slow speed (22mph) for optimal data collection which represents a range of 220miles. Today, energy infrastructure operators struggle with conducting inspections that are simultaneously: massive and precise. HyLight offers a solution to precisely detect issues on the infrastructure at an industrial scale, and all of this without emitting GHGs.