Solar Farm Inspection with Drone
Benefits of using drones for solar farm inspections
Inspecting solar farms using drones has numerous major benefits:
- Drones can rapidly traverse vast distances, therefore drastically cutting the time required for inspections when compared to conventional approaches. This lets more thorough and frequent monitoring possible.
- Drones can readily check places like high-mounted panels, large arrays, or installations on uneven ground that are difficult or unsafe for human inspectors to access.
- Equipped with high-resolution cameras, drones may record thorough photos and movies, thereby allowing exact detection of flaws, damage, or other problems.
- Drones equipped with thermal cameras can find heat anomalies, hotspots, damaged cells, or broken wiring invisible through standard eye inspection.
- Reducing the demand for scaffolding, cherry pickers, or physical labor helps drones to cut the general cost of inspections and maintenance.
- Drones lessen the need for inspectors to operate at heights or in dangerous environments, therefore lowering the chance of mishaps and injuries.
- Drones can rapidly gather a lot of data in general. Analyzing this information helps one to track performance, spot trends, and more wisely schedule maintenance operations.
- Drones can offer real-time data and images, therefore facilitating instantaneous analysis and faster decision-making for repairs and maintenance.
- Drones can check solar farms with minimum disturbance to their operation, therefore guaranteeing that the energy output keeps on without notable interruption.
- Regular drone inspections assist to continuously check the state of the solar farm, so enabling early detection of problems and prevention of significant ones.
All things considered, drones offer a safer, more affordable, and more effective way to check and maintain solar farms, therefore guaranteeing best performance and lifetime of the installations.
when can we use drone for solar farm inspection
Solar projects pro-construction survey
Reality modeling. Utilize the flexible and maneuverable characteristics of drones to reconstruct the real-life model of the target area, collect survey data, and extract key data information Auxiliary power station design. Utilize 3D real-life models and combine with BIM design software to conduct photovoltaic power station performance evaluation, component arrangement design and economic analysis
Solar projects construction audit
Regular flight collection of image data lines, combined with CAD drawing analysis and image recognition technology, to achieve power station construction progress and quality tracking Progress tracking. Intelligent identification of photovoltaic brackets and component panels, matching with CAD drawings, and regular access to power station construction progress Quality tracking. Perform semantic analysis on 3D point cloud data, extract bracket and component structures, calculate component installation positions and angles, and evaluate construction quality.
Operation and Maintenance
Infrared inspection. The drone is equipped with a dual-light gimbal to quickly identify hot spots, diode failures, and open circuit defects and form an inspection report. Assessment of equipment operating status. Use IoT sensors and big data analysis to monitor the operating status of equipment. Robot components are cleaned. Based on the cleaning evaluation, trigger the robot to clean the components to maximize the economic benefits of cleaning.
Solar projects construction audit & tracking
Based on drone platforms, data analysis and artificial intelligence technology, it provides real and reliable infrastructure monitoring data for power generation companies. UAVs are used to collect image data, and through image recognition and data analysis technologies, the infrastructure construction process is monitored, compared and matched with CAD drawings, and reports on infrastructure construction progress, construction quality, etc. are output to help staff effectively carry out infrastructure supervision work. Thereby ensuring the construction quality of photovoltaic power stations and improving power generation efficiency.