Asset Management

Assets spread over vast expanse of land pose a great challenge to mankind when it comes to the former’s management. Assets in Solar Farms, Wind Farms, Railways , Power lines and more present a rather tricky situation to man and they cannot be management over foot. However with deployment of drones the game turns 180⁰on its head. Drones can easily travel across vast area, consistently over a longer period of time and also access remote locations, enter easily to hard-to-access areas as well.

The drones operators easily carry out inspection from a safe distance / a place of their choice without the need to set up and climbing equipment to reach up or down. Thus they are completely safe from the dreadful falls. Thermal imaging inspections can be carried easily.

Solar Farms

In last few years the govt of India has taken special initiatives to move towards harnessing the energy of sun via solar farms. The Bhadla Solar Park located in Thar desert covers an area of 56² km with an install capacity of 2,245 MW. It is the world’s largest solar park. Can you fathom how the assets across this wide area are inspected and managed?

India ranks 3^rd in Asia and 4^th in world for solar power production.

Since solar farms are located in remote and rural locations the traditional inspection methods do not work. Solar panel defects are best inspected when the sun is strongest. Therefore it is prudent to deploy swarm of OUSL drones to inspect the solar panels for defects and not put men at risk. Drones easily capture visual and thermal images to spot overheating and faults.

Wind Farms

As on March 21^st, 2023, India is producing 168.96GW renewable energy with 25% of share going to wind. There are more than 800 wind power plants in India. Jaisalmer wind park that produces 1600 MW power is India’s largest and world’s second largest wind farm.

Wind turbines can be as tall as 76 meters or more and the blades are more than 35 m in length. They pose a great challenge when it comes to inspection due to their size and the extreme height.
The workers deploy the traditional role inspection method. This is a high risk method as the workers / inspectors need special skills on scaling the height and rappelling. They also have to be trained on tethering systems.
The drones, however can easily overcome these problems as they seamlessly photograph the entire lengths of the wind turbine blades and column and send back the footage to technicians.

Drones are fast replacing the traditional rope inspection method.

Each wind turbine inspection could from 3 to 6 hours depending upon various external factors, however with wind resistant OUSL drones this can be as low as 1 hour.

These drones can click high resolution images at angles where even the expert climber cannot reach. Thus, OUSL drones can play a significant role in reducing inspection cycle time by inspecting more in less and increase efficiency.

Other sectors that are highly benefitted from our drone assessment inspection solutions are: Railways, Highway Authorities (Roads and Bridges Inspection), High Tension Power Lines, High Mobile Towers, Oil & Gas, Water Pipes across several hundred kms and more.