A single faulty module or a creeping line of vegetation quietly drags down output across an array — and walking thousands of panels to find it isn't practical. AeroTech UAV flies thermal and visual inspections that pinpoint underperformers and encroachment fast, so your O&M crew goes straight to the problem.
Our thermal drones don't just shoot pretty pictures — the AeroSpectra engine runs computer-vision fault detection on the imagery, boxing and classifying every hot spot, diode fault, soiling patch, and dead module across the array, each one pinned to GPS for your O&M crew.
A single autonomous flight images the whole array in radiometric thermal + high-res RGB — no walking thousands of panels.
AeroSpectra classifies every anomaly — hot spot, diode fault, soiling, dead module — with a confidence score and GPS fix.
You get a fault map and a PDF inspection report your O&M crew dispatches against, plus GeoJSON/shapefile exports.
Thermal infrared imaging reveals the heat signatures of failing cells, bypass-diode faults, and disconnected strings — anomalies that are invisible in normal light but show clearly as hot spots from the air. Paired with high-resolution RGB and multispectral passes, a single flight covers ground crews can't survey in a day.
Thermal anomalies flag failing modules, cracked cells, and bypass-diode issues for targeted repair.
Whole rows or strings running dark stand out instantly, so outages get found and fixed fast.
Multispectral mapping tracks growth shading panels and crowding fence lines before it costs output.
Inspection-ready deliverables your O&M team can dispatch against — every finding tied to a location on the site.
Undetected faults compound — a string offline for a month is megawatt-hours gone for good, and vegetation shading reduces yield silently. Aerial inspection turns a multi-day manual walk into a single flight, prioritizes O&M spend on the panels actually losing money, and keeps clearing schedules ahead of the growth. For Florida's fast-growing vegetation and large utility-scale sites, regular flights protect the output your array was financed to produce.
Tell us your site size and inspection goals. We'll scope a flight plan and a tailored quote within 1–2 business days.
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