Aerial Thermographic Inspection

Understand the health of your solar asset.

Since 2015, Above has been at the forefront of developing innovative technology to help its customers build and sustain longer-lasting, higher-performing solar plants.

A market leader in drone inspections for solar, Above pioneered their use, setting industry standards for precision and reliability.

Our software platform, SolarGain, provides unparalleled insights into solar plant health, ensuring compliance with IEC standards for EPC and O&M contracts, technical due diligence, and warranty claim processes.

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Benefits of Above's Thermographic Inspection

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Establish a Comprehensive Baseline

Regular thermographic inspections with Above allow you to build a reliable performance baseline, enabling detailed analysis and comparison across your solar portfolio over the asset’s lifetime.

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Global Standardisation

Our aerial imagery adheres to IEC standards and best practice guidelines, ensuring consistent, high-quality data collection across all your solar sites worldwide

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Support for Warranty and Insurance Claims

Create a robust digital thread of historical data to track module failure rates over time. Access to high-quality, standardised data enhances the likelihood of successful warranty and insurance claims.

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Advanced Power Loss Modelling

Developed in collaboration with the academic experts at Loughborough University C.R.E.S.T, our industry-leading power loss model evaluates the impact of thermal anomalies in the context of your electrical system design, providing precise insights into performance losses.

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Targeted Maintenance Planning

Streamline your operations by quickly identifying specific issues and using the Task List feature to efficiently direct resources to where they are needed most.

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Mapped and Integrated Data

Inspection data is electrically and spatially mapped to precise module locations within SolarGain, Above’s powerful cloud-based platform.

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Introducing SolarGain

SolarGain delivers forensic inspection data in digestible form, providing deep insights into the health of your solar plant. By identifying, assessing, and addressing potential performance issues using thermographic data, SolarGain significantly speeds up root cause diagnosis, prioritisation and efficient human intervention.

Why use Thermography?

Whether you are commissioning or buying a new plant, performing general health checks or making a warranty or insurance claim, our solution ensures you understand the detailed health and performance of your solar plant.

With global coverage and the option for clients to self-fly their data collection, our approach is both scalable and adaptable to your needs. Above’s aerial inspections are also supported by our suite of mobile apps, giving you instant access to geolocated data, performance analytics, and actionable task lists and reports on site and in physical and electrical context.

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Be part of the solar plant revolution.

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