Solar energy is growing in popularity all over the US. Today over 100 gigawatts(GW) of solar capacity are installed nationwide. The Us is expected to see solar account for 20% of the electricity generation by 2030. Keeping up with the momentum in solar energy is dependent on more installations. Which means there is a lot of time and work involved to track and inspect all of these PV modules. Consider the challenge faced at the some of the largest facilities such as Solar Star which has 1.7 million pv modules. Imagine how time consuming manual inspections and troubleshooting would be.
Thankfully there is a new technology that is revolutionizing PV module inspections. That is Infrared technology. Isungard is now using a drone fitted with a special thermal camera. These infrared drone inspections are safer, easier, and more efficient than manual hand-held methods of the past. Our FAA licensed pilots are able to inspect large PV systems faster and provide key information through high resolution thermal technology that detects variances in heat. In the past a manual inspection would take 3-5 hours per MW.
Drones can complete a thermal inspection in ~10mins per MW. This reduction in inspection time saves you time and money resulting in peak PV asset performance.
iSUNgard offers a team of experts to monitor your solar investment in order to assist solar enterprises in cutting expenses and increasing energy production. We process color and thermal photos from drone and/or manned aircraft aerial inspections. A cutting-edge machine learning algorithm examines each image, identifying, classifying, and locating anomalies.
Solar energy is growing in popularity all over the US. Today over 100 gigawatts(GW) of solar capacity are installed nationwide. The Us is expected to see solar account for 20% of the electricity generation by 2030. Keeping up with the momentum in solar energy is dependent on more installations. Which means there is a lot of time and work involved to track and inspect all of these PV modules. Consider the challenge faced at the some of the largest facilities such as Solar Star which has 1.7 million pv modules. Imagine how time consuming manual inspections and troubleshooting would be.
Thankfully there is a new technology that is revolutionizing PV module inspections. That is Infrared technology. Isungard is now using a drone fitted with a special thermal camera. These infrared drone inspections are safer, easier, and more efficient than manual hand-held methods of the past. Our FAA licensed pilots are able to inspect large PV systems faster and provide key information through high resolution thermal technology that detects variances in heat. In the past a manual inspection would take 3-5 hours per MW.
Drones can complete a thermal inspection in ~10mins per MW. This reduction in inspection time saves you time and money resulting in peak PV asset performance.
