Solar farm thermography UAV — Utility
Radiometric drone surveys finding module-level defects. Delivered for a utility client in Chennai.
- Location
- Chennai
- Year
- 2020
- Duration
- 28 weeks
- Team
- 7 engineers
- 579
- MW surveyed
- 1,187
- defects found
- 2.7%
- yield recovered
The challenge
Conditions on site — heat, dust, vibration and patchy connectivity — had defeated two earlier attempts at this in utility.
What we built
We owned the whole stack — hardware, firmware, models and dashboards — using PX4, Radiometric thermal, PyTorch so there was one accountable team.
Delivery timeline
Phase 1
Discovery sprint and site survey
Phase 2
Prototype built and tested in the Motera lab
Phase 3
Pilot on site with before/after measurement
Phase 4
Scale-out, training and handover
Highlights
- Designed, built and supported from Motera, Ahmedabad
- Runs on-premises; no data leaves the site unless agreed
- Before-and-after measurements agreed with the client up front
- Remote monitoring and over-the-air updates included
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