Module-level addressing
Each finding carries its block, tracker, row, string and module position, counted the same way your crew counts in the field. Delivered as CSV and PDF.
Aerial thermography · Utility-scale solar
Find the power your site is losing.
Aerial thermographic inspection of utility-scale solar farms, delivered as a module-by-module report.
Block 04 · Tracker 018
ΔT vs string
0.0+6.0 °C
Class 2 · schedule repair
- Module
- 04-018-R2 · S-2 · #24
- Fault
- Bypass diode
- ΔT over own module
- +4.9 °C
- Irradiance at capture
- 842 W/m²
Example readout
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Software
Built by people who walk the rows.
With hands-on experience on solar sites, we built the software around the way a site is actually walked. The platform is our own, not a licence we resell, so if your site is documented differently or the report needs something extra, we can adapt it without waiting on anyone else.
- 01No third-party platform sitting between your site and your report
- 02The report follows your naming and your layout, not a fixed template
- 03Changes are made by the people who wrote it, on our own timeline
What you get
What the report contains.
Every finding is tied to a single module: what the fault is, how much hotter it runs than the rest of its string, and where that module sits on the site.
Fault type, not just heat
Cell hotspot, bypass diode, open string, whole-module and tracker-level events are separated by the shape of the thermal signature. A misaligned tracker is reported as one event, not as 50 module defects.
Conditions on the record
Irradiance, wind, sky and gimbal angle logged per capture and checked against IEC 62446-3. Radiometric frames retained, so any finding can be re-opened later.
Process
We start by listening.
No two sites are run the same way. We ask how yours works first, and shape the report around it — your naming, your priorities, the format your team already uses.
STEP 1
Your brief
A call to understand what you need to find, how your team names and records assets, and what the report has to contain to be useful to you.
STEP 2
Your site on paper
Send whatever you already have — plans, spreadsheets, however your team names its blocks and rows. We work with your documents as they are, and tell you up front if anything is missing.
STEP 3
Survey and analysis
We fly the whole site during the hours when the sun is strong enough for the readings to count, then compare each panel against the ones it works alongside — so dirt or a passing cloud never ends up counted as a fault.
STEP 4
Your report
Every finding checked against its visible image, then delivered in the format we agreed — within a week of the last flight.
Survey specification
The numbers behind the report.
| Aircraft & sensor | DJI Matrice 4T · 640 × 512 radiometric thermal + visible |
|---|---|
| Survey altitude | 50 m AGL |
| Ground sampling distance | ≈ 6.6 cm/px — resolves single-cell hotspots |
| Temperature data | Raw radiometric, 1/64 K resolution — not screen colours |
| Irradiance window | ≥ 600 W/m², per IEC 62446-3 |
| Typical throughput | ≈ 380,000 modules in about four field days |
| Reporting turnaround | Within one week of the last flight |
| Coverage | Australia-wide |
Scope
What every survey includes.
- Full-site radiometric survey with the flight conditions logged per capture
- Module-level report with physical addressing — block, tracker, string, module
- Fault classification by thermal signature, with severity graded by ΔT
- Tracker and string-level events grouped as single events, not repeated per module
- Report delivered as CSV and PDF, with the radiometric frames retained
Get in touch
Ask for a quotation.
Send us the site details and we come back with a survey plan and a price. If you do not have the block count or module numbers to hand, leave them blank — we can work them out from your drawings.
- nixinsolar@gmail.com
- Phone
- +61 484 186 892
- Coverage
- Australia-wide
- ABN
- 82 578 038 382