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Thread: Leading the Way in Advanced Wind Turbine Inspection

Wind turbine inspection has long been a challenge, presenting complex logistical scenarios and safety issues. Enter Thread, an advanced inspection tool that combines the latest drone technology with cutting-edge AI engineering.

Thread is a cost-effective, safe method of gathering accurate inspection data, collating it into easy-to-view formats, and using artificial intelligence to share the information and results across the network.

Thread Seamlessly Combines Drone + AI Engineering in a Single Platform

What is Thread?

The benefits of using Thread as an inspection tool

What is Thread?

Thread has revolutionized the process and standards for wind turbine inspections. By creating a network of advanced inspection drones and combining the data they capture with AI engineering, this becomes instantly shareable for enhanced user collaboration.

Historically, such inspection processes have been expensive, drawn out, and represented significant safety risks. Thread removes all these hurdles, allowing inspectors to quickly deploy a smart unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with bespoke data collection tools, which return data through a variety of inspection technologies. Data gathering is determined usingHD images, 4K video, LiDAR scans, and other advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) formats.

All the gathered data is seamlessly and instantly integrated through a single patented AI engineering tool, known as UNITI. This program is an integral element of Thread, with software that collates, analyzes, sifts, and sorts it into a user-friendly digital record of the inspected infrastructure. Maintenance needs and subsequent reinspections are auto-scheduledaccording to the data results. Not only does this simplify the entire inspection operation, but it also allows the relevant parties to better determine the asset’s mean time before failure (MTBF) and likely repair needs. Such a streamlined process also allows for more proactive maintenance, thus reducing the risk of unexpected failures and increasing the ROI of each asset.

The benefits of using Thread as an inspection tool

Thread brings multiple advantages.

Reduces the physical inspection cost: Advanced drone technology allows inspectors to carry out tasks quickly and with none of the risks associated with working at height. Data is quickly generated, analyzed by advanced AI engineering, and transferred to a central hub where it’s collated, stored, and instantly shared.

Reduces the analytical inspection costs: Data analysis has historically been a labor-intensive task, requiring multiple personnel to sort and store. Thread combines the drone platform with AI engineering to seamlessly undertake this task. The software returns a digital record of the inspected asset, collating all the different forms of data and storing them in a single, easily accessed platform. Auto-maintenance or re-inspection scheduling can also be scheduled, according to the inspection results.

Enhances collaboration: By bringing all the inspection data to a single platform, inspection teams, managers, ops managers, and any necessary personnel have full access as required. Such information sharing is available without the need for specialist training or knowledge.

Improves the maintenance process: Future asset inspections and upcoming maintenance tasks are indexed, flagged, and escalated to the appropriate source. This allows supervisors to streamline tasks, only actioning reinspections and maintenance tasks when required.

Improves the ROI of assets: Over time, the advanced data collection and analysis provides a detailed overview of each physical structure. This brings much-improved accuracy into the MTBF of assets, improving forecast costs, and further driving down infrastructure expenditure over the longer term.

In short, Thread has revolutionized the playing field for wind turbine inspection. In addition, the combination of drone + AI engineering platform is also successfully being used for other linear asset inspection within the energy industry.

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