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Commercial & industrial · Drone thermal inspectionInfrared (IR) thermography by drone, with radiometric capture across every module. Hot cells, failed bypass diodes, bad connections and dead optimizers show up as temperature deltas long before production data notices.
Nationwide, 500+ technicians. All 50 states covered.
A string at 2% loss disappears into weather variance in production data and shows up unmistakably in infrared thermal imagery.
The baseline. Defects found at commissioning are the installer's to fix. Defects found in year three are yours.
A defect documented while the warranty is live is the manufacturer's. Timing is most of the value.
Periodic sweeps catch new faults and show which old ones are progressing.
Inspect at energisation so handover defects stay with the installer.
Aerial drone thermography: radiometric capture across the whole array.
Findings classified, located and prioritised.
A work order, not a heat map.
Hot cells, failed bypass diodes, bad connections and dead optimizers. They show up as temperature deltas in radiometric infrared (IR) imagery long before production data notices.
Every module is inspected, not a statistical sample. Capture is radiometric and runs across the whole array.
Radiometric infrared thermal imagery of every module, a geolocated aerial thermal orthomosaic, defects classified by type and severity with module-level location (row and position), and a prioritised remediation list. Repeat sweeps add a comparison against prior sweeps.
At commissioning, as the baseline, so handover defects stay with the installer. Again while the warranty is live, because a defect documented in that window is the manufacturer's. Then periodically, to catch new faults and show which old ones are progressing.
The thermal inspection page covers infrared solar panel inspection in general; this page is about the drone sweep itself. Thermal imagery shows faults as heat, while electroluminescence finds cell-level cracks before they show.
Nationwide, with 500+ technicians and all 50 states covered. Book a 15-minute call, tell us the site and the timeline, and we will tell you straight whether we fit.
Infrared solar panel inspection: faults found as heat
Explore →Cell-level cracks before they show
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