Flir Solar Panel Inspection

Inspecting solar farms with thermal imaging.

Flir solar panel inspection.

This data was captured with a flir thermal camera. They are critical to prevent larger breakdowns manage warranty claims with equipment suppliers and operate within contracted performance and yield guarantees. Written by ruud heijsman public relations manager emea at flir systems. This will help to maintain the solar panels functionality and extend their lifetime.

Why use a thermal drone to inspect solar installations. Http bit ly 2emwgkk sign up before march 6 2018 to participate in the live w. Routine solar panel inspections are an essential part of operational efficiency. The inspection of solar panels that once took half a day can be completed now in just 10 minutes or so says an enetech manager who provides maintenance service for solar power generation systems.

Discusses operating drones for inspecting solar farms shares best practices for planning inspections and collecting high quality data. This helps to localize faulty modules easily in large areas e g in solar farms and also to relate the thermal images to the equipment e g in reports. A uas solution with onboard thermal imaging makes it easy to quickly inspect a large target area and. Useful features another useful feature for a thermal imaging camera is the tagging of thermal images with gps data.

A group of solar panels flown on 10 12 2016 in columbia sc. Anomalies spotted are. For fast and accurate solar panel inspections. The xt 640 13mm sensor is mounted under our dji inspire.