The challenge
Solar farms often span vast areas and contain thousands of individual panels, frequently located in exposed or remote environments.
Inspection teams must identify faults, degradation and performance issues while working around live electrical infrastructure and time-sensitive maintenance schedules.
Solar inspection teams commonly face:
- Large, repetitive sites requiring consistent inspection patterns.
- Exposure to wind, glare, and rapidly changing weather conditions.
- Remote locations with limited or no connectivity.
- Manual planning and documentation slowing inspection cycles.
- Difficulty maintaining accurate logs for asset lifecycle reporting.
- Regulatory and site-specific safety requirements.
Without a structured workflow, solar inspections become inefficient, inconsistent, and harder to validate over time.
The solution
heliguy.io provides a structured, inspection-ready workflow designed specifically for drone-based solar-panel operations.
heliguy.io enables solar inspection teams to:
- Create hazard-aware RAMS that account for electrical risks, access routes, and site-specific hazards before deployment.
- Use standardised inspection templates to fly consistent patterns across arrays, supporting comparable results over time.
- Operate offline at remote solar sites, ensuring inspections continue without relying on connectivity.
- Automatically capture DJI flight logs for maintenance records, asset tracking, and lifecycle reporting.
- Monitor live environmental conditions to avoid wind, glare or weather that could compromise thermal or visual data quality.
Results
With heliguy.io, solar inspection teams can:
- Deliver repeatable, consistent inspection outputs across large solar arrays.
- Reduce downtime and rework caused by inconsistent capture.
- Maintain accurate lifecycle records for panels and associated assets.
- Improve planning efficiency across multiple inspection sites.
- Automatically preserve complete, traceable inspection histories to support audits, compliance, and maintenance reviews.
“Solar inspections rely on consistency and traceability. heliguy.io gives teams a repeatable workflow and automated logs, making large-scale PV inspections easier to manage and validate over time.”— Ruairi Hardman, heliguy™ Business Development Manager