Together with MIT EF Poland and Innvento, we are deploying new drone technologies at PGNiG. The main aim of our cooperation is to ensure a safe supply of utilities to homes and businesses. To show what drones can do in monitoring and inspecting critical infrastructure, Innvento organised a conference on unmanned systems used at PGNiG.
“We are now starting cooperation with the start-up BZB UAS. We hope that this gem, discovered in the third edition of MIT Enterprise Forum Poland under the ScaleUP – Start in Poland programme, will bring us specific benefits that will ultimately translate into lower operating costs. On the one hand, this means greater competitiveness for the company, and on the other, lower gas prices for customers – that is exactly what we are after in our cooperation with start-ups” – says Łukasz Kroplewski, Vice-President of the Management Board for Development, PGNiG SA.
How does PGNiG use drones?
The conference participants learned how PGNiG S.A. uses drones, which solutions it is testing and what its future plans involving drones are. The presentations were followed by a debate with PGNiG representatives. Our company was represented by Kacper Budnik, President of the Management Board, who stated without hesitation that Poland is one of the most advanced countries when it comes to drone law: “we have the largest number of certified drone operators, and the law is being amended and adapted to the continuous development of unmanned systems”.
The conference ended with a UAS demonstration on the PGNiG premises.
