Drone Based Solar Industry Solution

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Drone-based solar industry solution.

Drone commercialization is accelerating, and the solar industry is no exception. Drones offer a practical solution for inspecting solar sites ranging from residential to utility-scale. Drones assist businesses in avoiding hazardous labor, lowering maintenance, inspection, and repair costs, and maximizing energy production.

The use of drones in the solar industry both creates new opportunities and replaces existing work. Inspections are typically completed manually in the absence of drones. For utility-scale solar farms, which means either traversing hundreds of acres and inspecting thousands of panels by hand or, more commonly, inspecting only a sample of panels to identify systemic issues. High-cost inspections by small planes may be used in some cases. Of course, inspecting rooftop systems involves the risks of sending workers onto rooftops.

Benefits of Drone Based Solar

  • Drones collect data for topographic modeling, site shading assessment, water body and generator proximity, and soil type analysis during site development to determine how optimized a site is for power generation. During construction, drone flyover provides progress reporting, project milestone completion validation, and quality control. It allows easier project management and stakeholder oversight.
  • Drones provide a quick and easy way to assess the quality and operational health of solar farms. In some cases, asset buyers, financiers, or energy off-takers only have a limited amount of time to evaluate and accept a new solar farm. Drones can capture a sampling of data that will quickly identify any system problems and provide stakeholders with the best possible information with intelligent planning and a skilled pilot.
  • Drones can complete 100% IR inspections in a fraction of the time of traditional manual inspection, avoiding dangerous labor and providing better data. For ease of use, detailed information on modules that are malfunctioning at the string, module, or sub-module level can be delivered to an online portal and a smartphone application.
  • Getting up on a roof can be dangerous, and drones can assist field teams in avoiding it. Drones can be used to create measurable images of roofs as well as identify potential obstacles for pre-installation planning. They can also be used to inspect existing systems for flaws or to check for conditions caused by soiling or storm damage.

Why choose us?

KSEPL’s versatile drones with thermal cameras produce accurate heat maps, allowing customers to address anomalies and maximize output in advance. These drones typically reduce the time and cost of inspection by up to 60%.Since fewer people are needed for routine maintenance and diagnostics, labor costs are reduced. Furthermore, the risks to human lives are reduced as personnel is not required to ascend to height for inspection in the case of elevated arrays.