Portfolio-Wide Thermal Inspection Across a Multi-Gigawatt Solar Fleet
A solar independent power producer operates 40 sites across three states, each inspected manually on an annual cycle by walking crews.
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The challenge
Annual manual inspection means a defect can degrade output for eleven months before anyone sees it.
Each site produces its own folder of findings, so nobody can compare defect rates across the fleet.
Crews walk rows in high heat, which limits how much of a site is genuinely inspected.
How Wayam Eye solves it
Aerial and Thermal Capture
Drone-borne thermal and visual imagery is captured per site on a repeatable flight plan.
Automated Defect Detection
Hotspots, soiling, cracked modules, PID, and string anomalies are detected without a human reviewing every frame.
Layout Pinning
Each finding is pinned to its exact position in the plant layout, down to the module.
Severity Ranking
Findings are ranked by production impact so crews address what costs the most first.
Portfolio Rollup
Findings are aggregated across all 40 sites so fleet-wide defect patterns become visible.
The outcome
Inspection cadence changed from annual walking crews to repeatable aerial capture.
Findings ranked by production impact rather than by discovery order.
Fleet-wide defect patterns visible instead of forty separate site folders.
Representative scenario: a modelled industry situation showing how this accelerator applies. Figures are projections, not a named client result.
Capabilities used
Every accelerator is assembled from the same capability layer, so a workflow you adopt here shares its foundation with the rest of the portfolio.
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