A V-TOL Flight Services Team operating a company ROTA-FIX® Hornet drone has just completed its first five (5) jobs across Victoria working for Powercor & AusNet. These jobs included a river crossing and waterway in northern Victoria to protect a Pelican habitat and deflect low-flying agricultural aircraft from infrastructure, and mountainous locations in central & southern Victoria to mark conductors spanning wide mountainous valleys.

“We recently used V-TOL Aerospace to install Rota Marka’s on our network, I was really impressed with the professionalism of the whole team, the fitment was delivered to meet our requirements,” says Gavan Doherty, Ariel Operations Coordinator Manager, at AusNet.

“With Powercor and AusNet 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 platform 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.