AUTOMATED PHOTOVOLTAIC PLANT INSPECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD

Systems and methods are provided for automatically inspecting photovoltaic (PV) installations. The system utilizes drones flying preprogrammed routes to conduct aerial thermography of PV modules for inspection (i.e., gathering IR images of the PV modules). The system conducts analytics on the gather...

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Main Authors GUELBENZU MICHELENA, Eugenio, PADROS RAZQUIN, Asun, DE LA PARRA ABAD, Miguel
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 03.06.2021
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
COUNTING
ELECTRICITY
GENERATION
GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRA-REDRADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, E.G. USINGPHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
MEASURING
PHYSICS
TESTING
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Summary:Systems and methods are provided for automatically inspecting photovoltaic (PV) installations. The system utilizes drones flying preprogrammed routes to conduct aerial thermography of PV modules for inspection (i.e., gathering IR images of the PV modules). The system conducts analytics on the gathered images to determine defects in the PV modules of the PV installation, classifies detected defects, issues reports automatically, and retains technical data of every module included in the database of a PV installation for trend analysis and preventative and predictive maintenance analysis.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201716772930