Solar Insights | Optimize Your Solar Assets Today — Zeitview

Advanced Inspections for Solar Assets

From bare earth to completed power plant, leverage advanced inspections over time to improve build quality, increase power plant yields, and mitigate risk.

Solar Asset Development & Inspection Solutions

As your portfolio grows, maintaining the health of your assets and maximizing performance over time becomes increasingly complex. Zeitview delivers simple, cost-effective, scalable inspection solutions designed to help you maximize output, mitigate risk, and recover revenue.

Construction Progress Monitoring

Gain EPC oversight with time-based imagery delivering advanced analytics, identifying both progress and risk.

Thermal Inspections

Reduce the need for IV curve tracing, efficiently assess anomalies, shorten inspection timelines, and streamline corrective maintenance across your entire portfolio.

Serial ID Mapping

Quickly and easily scan module serial ID numbers using drones, our mobile app, or a combination of both. Serial ID connects seamlessly to Solar Insights making maintenance planning from the desk easier than ever.

Shading Analysis

Ensure peak performance all year with advanced shade simulations that allow you to see sun conditions on solar assets for any time or geography.

Solar Insights Platform

Simple, cost-effective data solutions designed to help you maximize output, mitigate risk, and recover revenue.

• Maintain a global view of the financial performance and energy output of each system.
• Share reports, collaborate with team members and streamline decision-making.
• Combine advanced inspections and our simple, easy-to-use platform to streamline complex data sets.
• Access imagery, analysis, and reporting all in one location.

Integrated Flight Operations

Combining drones and manned aircraft, our approach provides a flexible, cost-effective, and accurate view of the performance of your solar assets. Save money, save time, and simplify your data acquisition process.

The Right Thermal Toolbox

Drone thermal cameras are ideal for spot checks and on-demand inspections. Crewed aircraft, equipped with calibrated and cooled thermal cameras, enable simple, cost-effective annual collection across large areas.

Fast and Accurate Reporting

The Zeitview Insights Solar platform is an easy-to-use online system that simplifies your workflows, enabling you to focus on maximizing your power plant’s performance and improving your financial returns.

Solutions from Bare Earth to Completed Asset

As your portfolio grows, maintaining the health of your assets and maximizing performance over time becomes increasingly complex. Zeitview delivers simple, cost effective, scalable data solutions designed to help you maximize output, mitigate risk and recover revenue.

Aerial Thermographic Inspection

Identify, track, and resolve PV module anomalies.

• Identify PV cell anomalies so you can gain up to 1.5 - 5% of generation improvements.
• Assess, validate, and track system anomalies across a portfolio.
• Manage all your module inspection datasets in a single place.

Construction and Quality Monitoring

Every phase, digitized.

• View construction progress instantly to ensure development timelines are adhered to.
• Assess, validate, and track system anomalies across a portfolio. Compare plans, drawings, and designs against as-built imagery.
• Share progress with key stakeholders easily and securely.

Serial ID

Manage your assets with digitized inventory.

• Improve operational efficiency of field teams with the use of drones.
• Create comprehensive maps of your assets, with detailed panel-specific information.
• Streamline warranty, claims, and litigation with visual evidence.

Shading Analysis

Ensure peak performance all year round.

• Perform digital shading simulations for your specific geography and time of year.
• Analyze energy losses due to shade encroachment with real-world variables.
• Exchange data with tools such as PVsyst and other modeling software.

How the process works

Combining the largest global network of drone operators and an advanced analytics platform, Zeitview delivers high-resolution imagery and in-depth reporting to lower operating costs, remotely monitor properties over their lifespan, and enhance capital expenditure planning.

Plan

We collect site details from you to plan the most cost-effective data collection method and cadence.

Collect

Leveraging drones or manned aircraft equipped with thermal sensors, we collect aerial data.

Analyze

Actionable, near real-time data of your commercial properties condition and dimensions to enable smarter decisions.

Report

Drones can obtain imagery on pavement conditions so you can find stress cracks and wear faster than ever.

Inspect Smarter with Zeitview Solar Insights

Scalable Operations

• Our global network of more than 80,000 drone operators, coupled with manned aircraft data collection methods, gather data efficiently worldwide.
• No matter the scale of your operation, our flexible, cost-effective approach saves money, time, and simplifies your data acquisition process.
• Whether using drones for a spot-check or manned aircraft to complete annual inspections, leverage the proper tools to support your thermal inspections.

Enhance Site Management

• Access a repository of digital site records to streamline your thermal inspection schedule and better assess each site over time.
• A secure, centralized platform to manage your portfolio of assets, inspections, imagery, data, analysis, and reports.
• Utilize actionable analysis to prioritize and address issues or anomalies - whether during the construction cycle or once the asset is fully operational.

Simplify Performance Tracking

• Quickly pinpoint anomalies with the most significant impact on energy output and financial performance so you can improve the health of your solar asset and recoup lost revenue.
• Leverage in-depth assessments to identify inverter, string, module, and environmental issues that enable you to determine lost power and prioritize repair work.
• Compare inspection data captured at different points in time to determine recurring issues, trending anomalies, and track maintenance performance.

What people are saying

“Zeitview has been instrumental in helping us scale solar asset inspection and analysis across North America. Their ability to provide 100 percent aerial coverage by using drones and manned aircraft gives them a tremendous competitive advantage. We look forward to growing our partnership with Zeitview as our portfolio grows.”

— SMA

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