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iHawk by Cyberhawk
Asset inspection data platform sold by a drone inspection service company, not standalone software
As of 1 September 2026, iHawk by Cyberhawk's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Cyberhawk is a drone inspection services business; iHawk is the software it sells for storing, tagging and analysing the visual and geospatial data those inspections produce. Softwr lists it under Energy. iHawk by Cyberhawk is made by Cyberhawk Innovations Limited, available on Web.
Overview
What iHawk by Cyberhawk does
Cyberhawk is a Scottish company that flies drone inspections of utility networks, offshore platforms, refineries and capital projects. iHawk is its cloud platform: the imagery, thermal data, point clouds and geospatial layers from those inspections are loaded, tied to asset identifiers, tagged with defects, and made searchable over time so an engineer can compare the same tower or vessel across several inspection cycles. Visualive adds automated defect detection to the image review step. The important thing for a buyer is what is actually being purchased. Cyberhawk's route to market is the service; iHawk is presented as an enterprise SaaS platform, but the company's own positioning is that you gain expertise rather than merely licence software. In practice most contracts bundle data capture, processing and platform access, which means the software cost is not separable from the service cost on the invoice and the buyer cannot easily compare iHawk against a pure software platform. Organisations that fly their own drones and only want somewhere to put the data should ask for standalone platform pricing explicitly and expect resistance. Buyers are transmission and distribution utilities, oil and gas operators and owners of large capital projects, mostly in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and North America. The trade-off is vendor lock-in of a specific kind: the data is most valuable as a multi-year comparison series, and that series lives in a platform tied to the company that captured it.
What people use it for
- A transmission operator inspecting several thousand towers annually that needs defect history per structure rather than a folder of photographs per campaign
- An offshore operator that wants flare tip and structural inspection imagery held against the same asset tags used in its maintenance system
- A capital project owner tracking construction progress from repeated aerial capture over a two year build
- A utility responding to a regulator that requires evidence of condition assessment across a defined asset population
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- Cyberhawk's business is inspection services, so the platform is normally sold as part of a capture contract and the software line item cannot be compared cleanly against standalone asset inspection platforms
- Nothing is published about price, and because contracts bundle flights, processing and platform access, the recurring cost after the inspection campaign ends is often not clear at signature
- The value of the platform grows with the length of the historical series held in it, which makes switching increasingly expensive over time and gives the vendor leverage at renewal
- It is a review and management platform rather than an enterprise asset management system, so defect findings still need to reach SAP or Maximo to become work orders, and that integration is a project in its own right
- Automated defect detection reduces review effort but does not remove the need for qualified inspection engineers to sign off findings, so headcount savings are smaller than a technology-led business case usually assumes
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Pricing
What iHawk by Cyberhawk costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
iHawk platform
On request
- Usually contracted together with Cyberhawk inspection services
- Priced by asset count, data volume and inspection programme scope
- Standalone platform licensing available on request but not the standard route
- No published price
Capabilities
Features
Visual data management
Inspection imagery, thermal and video stored against the asset it depicts
Defect tagging and tracking
Findings recorded with severity and tracked across inspection cycles
Visualive AI review
Automated detection applied to high-resolution inspection imagery to speed up review
Geospatial layers
Orthomosaics, digital surface models and point clouds from survey flights held alongside inspection data
Asset hierarchy
Data structured to the customer's own asset register rather than to flight or folder order
Progress monitoring
Capital project sites tracked between capture dates
Reporting and export
Inspection reports generated for regulator and engineering review
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Can I buy iHawk without Cyberhawk's inspection services?
Ask explicitly. The company positions the platform as enterprise software, but its normal route to market is bundled with data capture, so standalone terms are negotiated rather than listed.
Who owns the inspection data?
That is contract-specific and should be settled before signature, including what format you receive on exit and whether historical defect tagging comes with you.
What does it cost?
Not published. Expect pricing driven by asset count, data volume and the scope of the inspection programme.
Does it replace an asset management system?
No. It manages inspection data and findings. Work orders and maintenance planning stay in SAP, Maximo or your equivalent.
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