Abseiling belongs to the past.

The ROBUR members WKA (specialist for the inspection, maintenance and repair of rotor blades), the software company GIS (specialist for digitization) and the project planning specialists at TEC in cooperation with the Swiss drone experts of the company Sulzer & Schmid have developed a new solution. Instead of one system per day, teams equipped with largely autonomous high-tech drones now inspect up to 15 systems and send the data almost live to the back office, where it can be evaluated quickly and conveniently. The results are now available for the customer in an average of 10 days (often even faster), instead of multiple weeks. And since not only conspicuous areas are photographed, but the rotor blade as a whole is filmed and the data can be analyzed afterwards, in a dry and warm office, human errors can be minimized.

But this is not the end of the development story: The specialists from GIS, WKA and TEC are already working on a solution for using AI-support for the evaluation of the video material, so that the recognition of damaged areas can be mostly automated The result is a further increase in efficiency and a decrease of possible human errors during the inspection of images.