WINDPOWER Conference & Exhibition 2019

e-POSTER: Autonomous Drones – Pairing HD Imagery & AI Processing for Next Frontier in Predictive Maintenance

21 May 19
3:00 PM - 3:25 PM

Tracks: Operations and Maintenance, Poster Presentations

Speaker(s): Ulrich Moor, VP Business Development, Sulzer Schmid Laboratories Inc.

Drones allow blade inspections in 10% of the time used for traditional rope climbing, resulting in substantial savings in staff and down time. This is only the surface: combing advanced autonomous navigation, sophisticated image processing and AI supported analysis, result in deep insight and analysis that are generated at the push of a button. The digitization of core inspection processes provides many different strong commercial use cases - from Asset Performance Management to Insurance underwriting.