With drones increasingly being used in Fukushima Prefecture for various purposes including agriculture and disaster prevention, a local firm has developed a system to utilize them to inspect wind turbines.
Fukushima Sangikyo, a company in the city of Fukushima that develops and produces communications equipment, succeeded in developing the system after repeated trial and error. It has since obtained a patent.
The firm plans to conduct final demonstration experiments with an aim to put it into practical use by the end of March next year.
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