Introducing Drones to Your Solar Energy Operations
It's Time to Rethink Your Business: Drones in Solar Energy Operations
The solar business has undergone a meteoric surge in recent years, and this trend shows no indications of abating. According to Allied Market Research, the sector will be worth $422 (Rs 35k) billion by 2022, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.2% over 2016. As the sector expands, more and more solar firms are looking to drones to boost operations and overall profitability.
Drone applications are many and developing nowadays. Aerial mapping, automated roof measurements, infrared imaging, and digital terrain modelling may all be performed by businesses. This provides them with a wealth of data from which to simplify procedures and produce real-time insights.
Enhancing the Design Process
Companies used to rely on satellites, helicopters, or aeroplanes to acquire photographs of their locations, but they quickly learned that the high-resolution maps generated by DroneMaster much outperformed the imagery gathered by satellites and aircraft. The maps were not only more accessible, but the photographs were captured in a quarter of the time. The maps were also substantially more accurate and significantly less expensive.
The design cycle of solar energy projects may be reduced by up to 70% with DroneMaster's 3D mapping software.
Surveying Without the Tedium
Surveying a solar farm is one of the more time-consuming and labor-intensive activities in the solar business. Traditional surveys might take days, if not weeks. Drones can drastically reduce the time required to survey a farm.
One research discovered that a drone could scan 4,000 solar panels in roughly five minutes, whereas hand surveying would have taken more than eight days at a pace of one panel examination per minute.
Inspections are completed faster.
Solar panels have a tendency to overheat, which causes them to fail. This is primarily due to high amounts of dust or mechanical concerns such as scratches or damage. Moreover, depending on the scale of the solar farm, personally examining the panels might take days or even weeks.
Solar enterprises, on the other hand, may considerably reduce their overall costs by deploying drones to reduce the amount of time it takes to do inspections.
Aerial thermal photography is another valuable tool that gives heat maps while detecting reductions in energy outputs. This is useful for spotting unclean, damaged, or malfunctioning solar panels. Drones may also access difficult-to-reach regions, lowering the complexity of inspections, raising safety rates, and enhancing the overall maintenance efficiency of a solar farm.
Drones and the Future of Solar
DroneMaster can identify problems from the air in a fraction of the time and deliver detailed analysis using high-resolution 2D and 3D maps. Drones are becoming more popular in the solar business as they improve the design process, survey locations, and speed up inspections.
All three of these use cases have helped to reduce a solar company’s budget and increase overall efficiency. Drones are boosting the solar sector in ways few expected, and as we move forward, the benefits drones give can no longer be disputed.
DroneMaster in the field of solar renewable energy
Drone Surveys is thriving in the renewable energy industry, thanks to a love for technology and a desire to help diverse businesses. It is critical to ensure the quality of the solar power plant for appropriate electricity output, cost savings, and asset longevity. We provide timely thermal imaging (Aerial Solar) inspections for Solar Power Plants to ensure the safety and effectiveness of these solar systems.
The primary goal of utilising Thermal Mapping is to identify any faults or damage in solar panels so that owners may obtain warranty/replacement from manufacturers. Our faultless operations, which use cutting-edge UAV technology, assure dependability, affordability, and maximum precision. Our professional drone pilots conduct Aerial Inspections in solar farms using premium drones equipped with thermal sensors. Drone surveys and UAV inspections generate high-quality data for in-depth solar panel research.
We extract critical information from solar power facilities using drone surveys and thermal mapping. Precise solar farm inspection may detect cell faults, cell failure, dirt on photovoltaic cells, interconnection failure, solar cell degradation, decrease in operational efficiency, and so on. Thermal Mapping and Aerial Infrared Imaging cannot be implemented by humans alone. For solar farm inspection, monitoring, and large-scale maintenance, the sector must rely on cutting-edge UAV technology. For rapid decision-making, we provide geotagged high-resolution drone pictures and orthomosaics. We have provided solar farm inspection services to over 100 solar farms and have consistently benefited them in obtaining a greater return on investment.
Benefits of DroneMaster's Solar Farm Inspection
- Drone visual inspections provide more resolution than ground-based assessments.
- Using Drone Inspection will often cut inspection costs by 30-50%.
- Avoiding Costly Mistakes – Drone thermal inspection may readily detect a single dead cell, which can jeopardise the entire system and cause economic harm.
- Aerial Thermal Imaging can help you keep your solar farm working at full performance.
- The examination time is considerably reduced since Drons can scan enormous regions in a short period of time.
- Geo-tagged picture data allows you to readily locate defective panels and failed solar cells in huge solar farms.
Over 50 solar farms have been inspected
Already inspected over 50 solar farms, assisting them to increase efficiency, decrease operating costs, and avoid expensive mistakes.
Inspection of Solar Farms is now 30 times faster
Our skilled drone pilots deploy high-end drones outfitted with thermal sensors to conduct solar farm inspections in record time.
In-depth Inspection Report that is Accurate
Solar inspection report includes geotagged drone data including all minor features of solar farms for faster action and better decision making.