Tepolume: analyse drone imagery without handing it over

A single flight over a solar plant produces thousands of frames, thermal and colour side by side. Going through them by hand takes days, and what comes out is a list nobody can find again in the field.

Tepolume analyses the imagery where it is captured — on the field device on site, or on a server inside your own network.

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The problem

Two images, one finding

A warm spot in a thermal frame can be a defect or a reflection. Only together with the colour frame of the same spot can the two be told apart. Tools that read one source produce false alarms.

A finding without a location cannot be worked on

Someone standing at the plant needs the module number, not the image number. Without that mapping the report stays a photo gallery.

The data belongs to the operator

Imagery of a plant is operational data, sometimes from critical infrastructure. An analysis that requires a cloud often fails the vendor review before it is ever tried.

Hardware should not be dictated

Anyone already flying a fleet wants to keep it. Standard R-JPEG and RGB frames are processed, not a proprietary format.

How Tepolume works

Flight Thermal + RGB Field device on site NVIDIA Jetson, offline Your own server central, in house or Defect detection hotspots · diodes · strings Findings report located per panel
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On site or in your own house

On an NVIDIA Jetson right at the site, with no network needed. Or centrally on your own hardware when several flights come together.

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Thermal and colour together

Both frames of the same spot are assessed jointly rather than separately.

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What is detected

Hotspots, bypass diodes, string failures and the individual panels.

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Every finding gets a location

Every finding gets the number of the individual module so that it can be found in the field.

Tested with DJI Matrice 4T and DJI Mavic 3T. Further platforms are planned.

Two limits belong with that. An automated analysis does not find every defect; it sorts the volume so that a person finishes the review in hours rather than days. And the report is a working basis, not a certificate and not formal proof of inspection.

More detail

The product site covers the field device, server operation and how the data is kept.

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