A V-TOL Flight Services Team has just completed a contracted demonstration of its ROTA-FIX® Rotamarka® Drone Installation services with Powerlink, a company that focuses on delivering safe and reliable electricity to more than 5 million Queenslanders and 214,000 businesses through its electricity network solutions.

Conducted on Transmission Infrastructure at the Swanbank Power Station Precinct in windy and variable conditions, ROTA-FIX® successfully conducted multiple attachments for Powerlink.

“Along with Powercor and AusNet, Powerlink is coming onboard to mark their electrical transmission infrastructure assets using ROTA-FIX®. V-TOL has now been engaged by eight (8) utilities in two countries using it’s technologies,” says Mark Xavier CEO of V-TOL. He continued, “It is our aim to supply a family of robotic & AI assisted products & services supported by our IoT to the global utilities market commencing with our ROTA-FIX® solution leading the way in Australia.”  

The V-TOL ROTA-FIX® is a unique fit-for-purpose robotic solution (patent pending) developed specifically for attaching the Balmoral Engineering ROTAMARKA®, (globally distributed by SICAME Group), to energised & de-energised elevated electrical infrastructure to protect birds, aircraft & people. Both ROTA-FIX® & ROTAMARKA® are made in Australia and industry tested by Energy QLD Limited. As a joint sovereign capability, this service & product are approved for use on critical infrastructure within sensitive Defence locations. For ongoing Customer Asset Management and Quick Lookup online of Rotamarka® positioning information, V-TOL has developed and supports the digitaltwin.energy IoT platform.