In 2017, a special project was conducted for Viking Services, a company engaged in the exploration of natural gas reserves in a large area in the Thrace Region.

Viking Services deploys a large number of sensors in the field to detect underground natural gas and oil reserves. They then send seismic sound waves into the ground through a machine that penetrates between these sensors. The data collected from these sensors, which record the echoes of the sound waves returning to the surface, is used to create a map of the underground.

During this process, it was crucial to ensure that the thousands of sensors (operating on batteries) placed on the ground were functioning properly before sending sound waves. To collect the data from these sensors, which communicate via Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, personnel had to walk for kilometers in the field, manually collecting data from 200 to 400 sensors per person each day.

As Tekno Kurgu, we uploaded the coordinate data of the sensors placed on the ground, provided by Viking Services, to our initial UAV mission planning software called "Waypoint Suite." This enabled us to create flight routes for the UAV to collect data remotely from a height of 15-20 meters above the ground.

We successfully sent the mission to the UAV, allowing it to autonomously fly along routes ranging from 1.5km to 5km. With this setup, we were able to collect data from 800-900 sensors per day using just one UAV.