HiDef Completes Collision Avoidance Technology Licensing Deal

HiDef Aerial Surveying has completed a 7 year licensing deal with Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI) of Maine, USA, for exclusive rights to manufacture and sell HiDef’s Collision Avoidance Technology in the USA.

In September 2014 the partners received $1.1 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to further develop HiDef’s Collision Avoidance Technology which seeks to understand how birds and bats avoid wind turbines.

The technology uses two extreme high-definition cameras that are offset to create a three dimensional view of a wind turbine, the horizon, and an area surrounding the turbine. In addition to daytime operations, the cameras use the latest near-infrared technology that will allow the detection of animal movements at night as well as during the day.

In the last 18 months HiDef has licensed their aerial survey technology to third party providers on an exclusive territory basis as the business is navigated back towards its core competency of technology development.

Wing Goodale, Deputy Director of BRI said: “Our organisations collaborated for three years delivering digital aerial surveys to the US Department of Energy. When we first heard about this new technology we couldn’t wait to get involved. We expect to deploy units at terrestrial windfarms then target the offshore market as construction begins”.