Hitachi Power Solutions (Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture) will start using flying robots (drones) and artificial intelligence (AI) on April 1st to provide wind power equipment blade maintenance, maintenance planning and maintenance services. It is said that the stop time of the equipment can be 1/3 shorter than before. Strive to 2024 windmill maintenance business overall annual sales of 7 billion yen.
The one-stop service uses a blade inspection system based on drones and AI, which is jointly developed with Mori Shin Robot (Shibuya District, Tokyo), which is used by industrial drones. Automatically create the flight path of the UAV and capture each blade of the wind turbine in high resolution from five directions. The device stop time can be reduced by analyzing the image data with AI and evaluating the damage status.
At the same time, Hitachi Group has gained conservative planning and maintenance experience from the cumulative order performance of 860 wind power equipment to achieve the most suitable maintenance management of blades. The price is quoted individually.
Daily Industry News February 10, 2022