Energy Renewables

Energy Renewables

Better Data with Drones

Drones can capture high-resolution imagery, which can be processed and analyzed to provide actionable inspection results. While capturing one-off images can certainly be useful (to investigate the effect of a lightning strike, for example), larger scale inspections of wind farms is where drone data really shines.

Wind Turbine Inspections

Safety & Efficiency

Keeping ‘boots on the ground’ is one of the most obvious benefits of drones. Crews can get a close-up view of a potential defect without climbing.

Solar

Benefits of Drone Use in Solar Energy Farms

Aerial images provide a broader perspective of solar farms and allow maintenance teams to receive valuable information in real-time, like the status of each panel. When analyzing thermal maps, it is easier to identify potential problems by detecting heat anomalies across cells, strings, or panels. Combining thermal and RGB data helps you determine if the heat anomalies are caused by faults found physically on the panel, such as delamination, cracks, dust, or internal issues such as the inability to connect to a panel due to an inverter or cable failure.