Drone cleaning footage · Coral Gables

Close-up of a tethered cleaning drone in flight

4 sec · Filmed on site at Belmont Village, Coral Gables · Vista Drone Cleaning

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A close-up of Vista Drone Cleaning's tethered soft-wash drone in flight during a Coral Gables high-rise exterior cleaning.

What you are seeing

A close pass on the airframe itself: the tethered Lucid Bots Sherpa, nozzle forward, water line trailing.

The tether carries water, not power. The aircraft runs on batteries at roughly 19 minutes per set and is hot-swapped on the ground, so the water supply is continuous while battery sets rotate.

About this project

This footage was filmed at Belmont Village Coral Gables, an occupied senior-living high-rise developed in collaboration with Baptist Health South Florida. Vista Drone Cleaning cleaned more than 130,000 square feet of exterior (facade, windows, floor surfaces and the parapet) at $0.20 per square foot, all in, in seven days, with the building fully occupied throughout: no scaffolding, no swing stages, no rope access, no lifts, and no closed sidewalks, drop-off lanes, or entrances.

• Tethered soft-wash drone to 200 ft, plus a 70 ft water-fed pole from grade, about 18 stories.
• Heated sodium percarbonate (oxygen bleach), so no sodium hypochlorite, no chlorine odor and no plant kill at grade.
• Flown under FAA Part 107 with $2M liability insurance in force.
• Management asked Vista back on a semi-annual schedule, twice a year.

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See the full Coral Gables high-rise case study