New Israeli JV to Create Drone For Solar Panels Cleaning

• The totally automated system will consist of a drone docking station for automated battery substitute and cleaning fluid replenishment, making it possible for the system to operate constantly.
• Photovoltaic panel cleaning is likely to soon end up being a significant market as dirt, dust, mud and bird droppings greatly minimize solar panel efficiency, affecting power output.

Airobotics, an Israeli supplier of independent unmanned aircraft (drones) and aerial information systems, and Solar Drone, an Israeli firm specializing in solar farms solutions, have actually authorized a binding arrangement under which Airobotics will certainly develop and supply to Solar Drone an unique photovoltaic panel cleaning drone system.

The totally automated system will consist of a drone docking terminal for automated battery replacement and cleaning fluid replenishment, allowing the system to operate continuously.

Lots of expect photovoltaic panel cleaning to quickly end up being a multi-billion-dollar market. Dust, dust, mud and bird droppings significantly decrease solar panel performance, impacting power outcome. This means solar panels need to be cleansed frequently, specifically in dirty/dusty/bird-rich atmospheres.

Regular cleaning is expensive and time consuming, specifically when panels are remote, challenging to access or difficult to tidy. Examples are floating solar farms (on water), roof panels and sun-tracking panels.

Airobotics and Solar Drone aim to take advantage of their expertise in drone services and solar energy systems to create and market a new drone-based cleaning service for photovoltaic panel, projecting sales of $10 million in the initial 3 years in Israel, Europe, India and the UAE.

Meir Kliner, Airobotics CEO and Co-Founder, stated, "Our contract with Solar Drone can take advantage of Airobotics' advanced core modern technology to assist check and maintain solar farms. This is one more action for us right into a multi-billion-dollar market."

Shmuel Yanai, Solar Drone Founder, stated, "Today's solutions are unwieldy, uneconomical, and incapable to manage modern-day solar farms. We believe the access of Airobotics' drone technology right into the market is a video game changer, with significant economic possibility."

Airobotics specifies the attributes of its unmanned drone service as follows:

• Totally Automatic: Self deployment and landing; No pilot required
• Safe: Geofencing; 'return home'; GPS redundancy; emergency landing; parachute.
• Robotic arm: Automatic payload and battery exchange; Multiple payloads.
• Industrial Grade: Durable; corrosion resistant and weatherproof.
• Continuos Operation: Scheduled & On-demand.
• Accurate: 5 cm position accuracy.