PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
ScoutDI
About ScoutDI
ScoutDI develops drone-based systems for fully digitalized inspections of industrial confined spaces. Headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, the company’s flagship Scout 137 Drone System is a tethered, LiDAR-stabilized inspection platform purpose-built for GPS-denied environments such as cargo and storage tanks, FPSOs, process vessels, boilers, and pressure spheres.
The system combines uninterrupted endurance, automated flight patterns, a 4K zoom camera, and modular inspection payloads, including Ultrasonic Thickness Measurement (UTM) and an MPS™-based gas sensor, with the cloud-based Scout Portal for inspection review, collaboration, and AI-ready analysis. ScoutDI is ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and the Scout 137 is CE-marked. The company’s customers include Shell, Ørsted, and other leading industrial operators that rely on safer, faster, and more consistent confined-space inspections.
Partner Focus
Inspection Technology & Capabilities
The Scout 137 is a tethered, LiDAR-based confined-space inspection drone for GPS-denied environments. Power, control, and data run over the tether for hours of uninterrupted BVLOS operation; a 128-beam 3D LiDAR with edge-based SLAM delivers rock-solid hover; a 3.5x zoom camera with LED lighting captures high-detail visuals; and modular payloads — including the MPS™-based Gas Sensor and the UTM Payload for ultrasonic thickness measurement — feed straight into the cloud-based Scout Portal for review, analysis, and sharing.
Industries & Confined-Space Applications
ScoutDI’s customers are operators and inspection service providers in oil & gas (storage and cargo tanks, FPSOs, process vessels, columns, and spheres), marine, power generation, infrastructure, and other heavy industries — anywhere an inspector would otherwise have to enter a confined space at significant safety, time, and cost.
ScoutDI is Contributing to NevadaNano's Goals
Challenge
Confined-space entries in oil and gas facilities, including cargo tanks, process vessels, FPSOs, storage spheres, and process columns, are among the most hazardous routine activities in the industry. They require gas-freeing, scaffolding, rescue standby, and extended production interruptions before an inspector ever sees the surface. Flammable hydrocarbon residues such as methane, propane, and pentane can persist or re-accumulate during inspection windows, putting both people and assets at risk.
Solution
The Scout 137 enters these spaces in place of a human inspector and carries the NevadaNano MPS™ Flammable Gas Sensor as an integrated payload, included as standard on Gen 3 systems and available as an option on Gen 2. The gas sensor activates automatically when the drone is powered on, continuously displays live %LEL readings in the Scout App, raises on-screen alarms at warning and high thresholds, and records every measurement alongside the LiDAR point cloud and 4K visual data in the Scout Portal. The same flight delivers both the inspection results and a time-stamped, location-tagged gas record, without requiring personnel to enter the asset.
Impact
Inspectors remain outside the danger zone, assets return to service faster, and operators gain an additional, defensible safety layer on top of existing confined-space procedures. This directly supports NevadaNano’s mission to protect people, property, and the planet by helping eliminate human entry into combustible atmospheres, reducing the risk of ignition events and costly asset damage, and enabling faster, cleaner inspections that reduce purge volumes, downtime, and associated emissions.
How the MPS™ Gas Sensor Helps ScoutDI's Success
Calibration-free operation for the life of the asset
The MPS™ is factory calibrated for its full 15+ year lifespan and includes a built-in self-test, allowing inspectors to deploy the drone in the field without pre-flight bump-test logistics or quarterly recalibration trips, which is critical when the drone is operated by service partners and customers worldwide.
Multi-gas detection across the hydrocarbon spectrum
A single sensor accurately measures and classifies methane, hydrogen, propane, butane, pentane, octane, toluene, xylene, and other common flammable gases and mixtures with 0.1% LEL resolution, giving inspectors gas-class context (for example, methane vs. heavy hydrocarbons), not just a number.
Immune to poisoning and saturation, with EN 50271 and IEC 60079-29-1 alignment
Unlike catalytic bead sensors, the MPS™ continues reporting reliably in environments where silicones, sulphides, or high gas concentrations would blind a traditional pellistor, which is especially important in the complex real-world conditions the Scout 137 is designed to inspect.
Partner Category
Remote/Aerial Gas Detection
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Products with MPS™ Inside
- Scout 137 Drone System (Gen 3) — Gas Sensor payload included as standard
- Scout 137 Drone System (Gen 2) — Gas Sensor payload available as an option
NevadaNano Product Used
Testimonial
“Integrating NevadaNano’s MPS™ sensor into the Scout 137 was an easy decision. It gives our customers real-time, multi-gas %LEL readings during every confined-space inspection, with zero field calibration and a sensor life that matches the platform — so the drone, not a person, is the one in the combustible atmosphere. Working with the NevadaNano team has been straightforward from day one, and the technology lives up to its reputation.”
— Nicolai Husteli, CEO, ScoutDI