Levitate provides a Data‑as‑a‑Service platform that uses a long‑duration electric aerial vehicle to capture continuous, georeferenced 360° digital twins of linear infrastructure corridors in a single mission. The service includes flight permitting, pilot licensing, and regulatory compliance, delivering high‑resolution 100 MP RGB imagery and survey‑grade LiDAR point clouds ready for GIS and asset‑management workflows.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Infrastructure operators often rely on multiple drones or helicopters to inspect linear assets such as power lines, railways, and roads, resulting in fragmented data, high operational costs, and complex regulatory requirements. Battery limitations and the need for repeated flights make it difficult to capture continuous, high‑resolution information along entire corridors.
Solution
Levitate offers a pure Data‑as‑a‑Service platform that operates a long‑duration, electric aerial vehicle to capture the full geometry of any defined corridor in a single mission. The system combines a 100 MP RGB camera with ±5 mm repeatability LiDAR, producing a continuous, georeferenced digital twin that includes both high‑resolution imagery and survey‑grade point clouds. Levitate handles all flight permits, pilot licensing, and regulatory compliance, delivering ready‑to‑use data that can be directly ingested into GIS, asset‑management, or analytics workflows. The modular payload architecture allows customers to add thermal, hyperspectral, SAR, or other sensors for specialized inspections without additional flight planning. By decoupling data acquisition from on‑site personnel, the service reduces safety risks and operational emissions while providing consistent, repeatable measurements across the entire asset corridor.
Target Audience
Primary customers are utility companies, railway operators, road authorities, and infrastructure owners who need comprehensive, high‑precision digital twins of their linear assets for inspection, clearance analysis, and maintenance planning.
Features
- Single‑mission coverage of entire linear corridors (rail, road, power grid) with continuous 360° data capture
- Integrated 100 MP RGB sensor and high‑dynamic‑range LiDAR delivering ±5 mm repeatability and ~3 cm vertical accuracy
- Fully managed flight operations: permits, pilot licensing, and regulatory compliance handled by Levitate
- Modular payload capability to integrate thermal, green LiDAR, SAR, hyperspectral or other mission‑specific sensors
- Georeferenced raw .LAS point clouds and true‑color imagery ready for direct import into GIS and asset‑management systems
- Near‑zero emissions electric platform with 6‑hour endurance, reducing scope‑3 emissions and on‑site safety hazards