This has never happened before: a grass-mowing robot hosts the slopes of the Vilnius Western Bypass and the Neris embankment. Weighing half a ton, the new robotic lawnmower mows more than 5 yards per hour on average. sq. m of territory, overcomes about 40 thousand during the whole day. sq. meters - this is equivalent to 6 football fields.
The advantage of a robotic lawnmower is that it moves in all directions and can mow steep slopes of more than 60 degrees, where human work is difficult and often dangerous.
"At the beginning of the summer, we left the slopes unmowed on the Neris embankment in the name of biodiversity. Now that they have already bloomed and withered, they are mowed by a robot. How happy that more and more new, more efficient technologies for the maintenance of territories are being discovered and they are paying off", says Director of Administration Povilas Poderskis.
The robot not only cuts, but also shreds the grass. The grass left on the lawn helps maintain the lawn's moisture and becomes a natural fertilizer. The crawler robot was purchased by the company "Mano aplinka" responsible for the maintenance of the city's greenery.
"We are looking for ways to make our activities more efficient in all areas, thus we aim to facilitate or even eliminate the most difficult and tiring jobs for employees, thus providing more attractive working conditions, we are looking for faster and more efficient technologies. In the past year alone, we have invested almost 1 million in this. Eur. This is no longer our first robot. We are constantly looking for new technologies, although they are quite slow in this sphere: snow removal, leaf collection, sand collection, IT systems, etc.," says Diana Lubė, group manager of the "Mano aplinka" company.
Municipal companies "Beam" and "Vilnius Planas" have been using drones with monitoring equipment for the maintenance of the capital's infrastructure for a year. Drones come to the rescue when it is necessary to assess the scale of an emergency situation, detect illegal constructions or landfills. City transport specialists use fliers to monitor the traffic situation, parking availability, they are useful when it is necessary to assess the volume of traffic jams, their causes, the possibilities of their elimination and to model traffic flows.
Unmanned drones help street lighting specialists to record street lighting failures, city public order officials to detect cases of burning grass and branches in the territories of garden communities. During the winter, drones will be able to be used in other areas as well: during the winter, controlling how city maintenance companies clean sidewalks or streets, or inspecting faults in heating circuits.
