Good topic. Reminds me of a project which a friend of mine was running - https://www.linkedin.com/co

Good topic. Reminds me of a project which a friend of mine was running - https://www.linkedin.com/company/airprobe/ now acquired by ZeitView.
They do ariel imaging using IoT and deep learning for solar panel health check in the power generation farms.

Leaving you some references:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04132

https://broutonlab.com/broutonlab-data-science-success-stories/anomaly-detection-in-solar-panels-computer-vision
arXiv.org
Solar energy has the potential to become the backbone energy source for the world. Utility scale solar power plants (more than 50 MW) could have more than 100K individual solar modules and be spread over more than 200 acres of land. Traditionally methods of monitoring each module become too costly in the utility scale. We demonstrate an alternat...
BroutonLab
Built a Computer Vision engine to detect anomalies (darker or lighter spots) in thermal photos of solar batteries, which are essentially matrices of panels. OpenCV is used for image preprocessing and extraction of the panel contours. After that, anomaly detection is performed for each of the panels using the Kaze detector. Dec 26, 2023
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