SkySpecs - Turbine Blade Inspections
Our purpose-built autonomous drones perform at record-setting inspection speed to minimize downtime while capturing the highest-quality blade data. Our AI analysis process and machine learning tools provide detailed analysis of your inspections in our blade asset management platform, Horizon. The Horizon platform ensures you have the data and insights your team needs to manage the health of your assets, identify blade trends to mitigate risk, and optimize your O&M planning and spend. This allows you to focus your budget and resources on the most critical repair needs with confidence.
To determine turbine blade health, high-quality images and data are needed on a blade by blade basis. Our in-house robotics team is solely focused on innovative drone technology for the wind industry. SkySpecs’ fully autonomous drone inspections use a combination of custom-built hardware and software to provide you with industry-leading inspections. We use cutting edge technology such as:
- Drones that capture geospatial image metadata
- 3D Lidar scan for every inspection
- Dynamic in-flight photography controls
- Sun avoidance software
- Large flight envelope and advanced autonomous flight controls that enable inspections in winds up to 15 meters per second (18 meters per second, gusting)