Periodic and preventive inspection of critical infrastructure by UAV. Radiometric thermal and high-resolution visual data, delivered as a fault register with coordinates — no shutdown, no scaffolding, nobody working at height.
Energy, utilities, telecom and engineering teams.
Traditional inspection means work at height, heavy access equipment and — often — stopping production entirely. The cost is rarely the inspection itself. It is the outage around it, and the faults nobody found.
Scaffolding, cherry pickers, rope access and permits exist to put a person next to the asset. Flying the sensor instead removes the access problem entirely — the plant keeps running, and nobody is exposed to a fall or a live conductor.
A cracked cell, a corroded connector or a loose termination looks entirely normal in daylight. Under load it runs hot, and that temperature difference is measurable long before it becomes an outage, an arc or a fire.
A thermal image proves something is wrong. It does not tell a maintenance team which of forty thousand modules to walk to. Every defect we log carries absolute coordinates and its position in the site layout, so the crew goes straight to it.
Four infrastructure classes, each with its own capture profile, fault taxonomy and reporting format.
Aerial thermal scanning down to individual module resolution. Detects failed cells, bypass diode faults, burnt connectors, string outages, soiling and hotspots that quietly erode yield.
A fault register with coordinates, severity class and estimated yield impact.Dual-payload visual and thermal capture of insulators, conductors, joints and transformers — locating abnormal heating, overload and physical wear before a component fails in service.
Condition report per asset, with thermal anomalies ranked against load.
Full structural capture from every aspect without a climb. High-resolution imagery of mounts, anchors, feeders and antennas, plus thermal on active equipment and connections.
Visual condition record engineers can inspect element by element.
Structural condition survey of envelopes, decks, soffits and piers. Locates cracking, spalling, delamination and moisture ingress — including surfaces with no safe line of sight from the ground.
Measurable 3D model plus a mapped defect register.Inspection data is not a flying problem — it is a sensor and methodology problem. A thermal frame captured at the wrong time of day, the wrong angle or the wrong irradiance is not evidence of anything. TeamFlight runs on more than 12 years in civil and military unmanned systems: integration work, flight testing and project delivery for UAV developers and defense industry. That background is why the capture conditions are specified before the aircraft leaves the ground, and why the report says how confident each finding is.
The output has to land in your GIS, CMMS or maintenance workflow. Every project ships the same package.
Radiometric thermal paired with the matching RGB frame, so every anomaly has spatial context. Temperatures, ΔT against reference and severity classification per finding.
Georeferenced models of the asset that allow virtual measurement of cracks, deformation and clearances — and comparison against the previous inspection round.
Absolute coordinates for every defect, plus its reference in the site layout, exported for GIS and maintenance systems so crews spend zero time searching.
Capture conditions are agreed in advance, because thermography flown under the wrong conditions is not repeatable.
Asset type, fault classes that matter to you, reporting format and the operational constraints of the site.
Capture conditions — irradiance, load state, time of day — plus flight planning, airspace approval and site coordination.
Flown to plan with dual payload, with coverage and thermal quality verified on site before the team leaves.
Anomaly detection, classification by severity, coordinate tagging and handover in your working format.
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Send the site description, the infrastructure type and your data requirements — you will get a project outline and a deliverables spec back within one business day.
Direct answers on conditions, standards and what the report actually contains.
No — and for thermal work you should not. Thermography relies on the asset being under load: a de-energised line or a disconnected string is thermally invisible, so a fault that would show clearly under normal operation simply will not appear. We fly during normal production, which is both cheaper for you and more diagnostically useful.
For PV, meaningful results need irradiance above roughly 600 W/m², low wind and a clear sky, which in practice means a specific window on a specific kind of day. For electrical assets, the load state at capture matters more than the weather. We specify the required conditions during scoping and will move a field day rather than fly one that produces data we cannot stand behind.
Every logged defect carries absolute coordinates plus its reference in the site layout — for PV that is the string and module position, for a line it is the structure number and the component on it. The intent is that a crew can drive to the point and identify the item without carrying a laptop or re-interpreting an image.
PV thermographic inspection follows the methodology of IEC 62446-3, including the capture conditions and the anomaly classes it defines. Electrical and structural work follows the client's own inspection regime where one exists; where it does not, we agree the fault taxonomy and severity thresholds in writing before flying, so successive rounds stay comparable.
Yes, and that is where most of the value sits. Repeat rounds flown to the same plan and the same control let you see which faults are new, which are stable and which are getting worse — turning inspection from a snapshot into a trend you can plan maintenance budgets around.
We do. Airspace planning, permit applications and coordination with the relevant authorities are part of the engagement. Sites near controlled airspace, power infrastructure or sensitive facilities need longer lead time, and that is flagged at the quote stage rather than the week of the flight.