RigiTech partners in drone deliveries to Denmark’s wind farms

Up-and-coming drone delivery company RigiTech has followed breakthrough successes in France and its domestic market of Switzerland with a new achievement in Denmark, developing a specialized payload lowering system that enables fast and precise transportation of parts to offshore wind farms.

The project in Denmark involved Lausanne-based RigiTech partnering with local autonomous systems operator Holo, and global transport and logistics company DSV. Using a specialized payload lowering mechanism that the Swiss company devised, the trio went to work testing drone deliveries of replacement parts to wind farm platforms operated by energy company Ørsted. 

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The result, they report, was a tightly synchronized network assuring drone delivery of required material to windfarm platforms located some 30 kilometers off Denmark’s coast in just 30 minutes – far faster than…