Wind Turbine Inspection Drones Market Size, Trends, Shares, Insights and Forecast

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Wind turbine inspection drones are small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles that are utilized to accumulate information and images for the assessment, monitoring, mapping, and analysis of turbine blades, towers, and nacelles. These are incorporated with advanced software that provide unique datasheets and vertical specific heuristics to streamline the assessment workflows through real time and scalable reporting features.

Significant advantages over conventional manual methods such as safety and accurate information collection will drive the market demands

Significant degradation in power output efficiency, owing to leading edge erosion of blades, blade wrinkling, lightning receptor problems, towers and nacelle problems necessitate the timely monitoring and assessment. Conventional methods for the examination include employment of specific teams suspended through cables and rope supports, using field telescopes and binoculars for the task. In conjunction with the human life risks, the method also had several limitations such as difficulty to access some areas, exclusion of blade defects assessment invisible to the naked eye. However, elimination of these drawbacks through utilization of wind turbine inspection drones is expected to present considerable growth prospects for this market.

Global Wind Turbine Inspection Drones Market Taxonomy

On the basis of offerings, the global wind turbine inspection drones market is classified into:

Hardware
Solutions

Increasing awareness regarding utilization of renewable energy sources has led to increased reliance harnessing wind energy

According to Global Wind energy Council (GWEC), the global cumulative installed wind power generation capacity is expected to reach 817 GW in 2021. Increasing focus towards global warming and pollution levels, requirement of harnessing green energy sources are expected to garner exponential adoption rates of these renewable energy sources, which will in turn drive the global wind turbine inspection drones market growth over the forecast period. Maintenance of uninterrupted and consistent power outputs, reduction in examination and maintenance downtimes will be the major factors contributing to the growth of the industry.

Integration of artificial intelligence (AI) to reduce the workflow errors and detailed analysis within few hours is among the key trends gaining traction in the market

SkySpecs Solution fully automated assessment workflows that are featured with full assessment turnaround time within 48 hours. AirFusion is another company that builds AI-based solutions to automate damage discovery. These are among the few of the many product offerings utilized to enhance the examination outputs. Moreover, key players in the market are increasingly making efforts to enhance the hardware product offerings. For instance, Pro-Drone, introduced customizable solutions for enhanced positional awareness for the blades placement.

Regulatory compliances that restrict the utilization of these UAVs are expected to present considerable growth challenge to the market participants

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations in the U.S. such as requirement of specific qualifications, certifications, or design modifications, regulations regarding VLOS and BVLOS, and its distinctness across countries is expected to be the major factor that will hamper the market growth. According to Coherent Market Insights, several countries that include parts of Western Europe and the U.S. are expected to upgrade regulations regarding use of UAVs, which may increase the stringency of the regulations. This may also present significant growth barriers to the new entrants in the industry.

The U.S. held dominant position in the market in 2016 and the global cumulative installed wind power generation capacity is expected to reach 817 GW in 2021to the largest utilization of the UAVs for various applications in the region. Moreover, according to our research commercial applications in the region will witness high end use inclinations. According to GWEC, Asia Pacific and Europe have considerably large power generating facilities in relation to North America. Amendments in the regulations to support utilization of these UAVs for inspection purposes may garner huge market potential over the coming years.

Key market participants in the global wind turbine inspection drones market include Aeryon Labs, Hexagon, Strat Aero, Cyberhawk Innovations, and UpWind Solutions. Some other major industry participants include AIRPIX, AeroVision Canada, Aerialtronics, DJI, AutoCopter, DroneView Technologies, HUVr, Eagle Eye Solutions, Intel, Monarch, Romax Technology, and Pro-Drone.

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