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Wind-Drone

A powerful UAV-based ICT solution allowing safe, reliable and effective inspections of wind turbines

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Wind-Drone project word cloud

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roping operation downtime seek renewable blade benefit off safer automatic complete 27 prodrone capacity human 314 anticipated total recognition algorithm half lifetime validation least vehicle data automate delivers inspectors aerial intends analysing saved 1500 consuming rely equipped wind capturing consumption gw over operators additional qualified hazardous time eliminating park intervention 154 post sound decreased platform installed fault globally saving energy final levelised maintenance demonstration amount 25 pro unmanned drone times optimization inspection lower revenues 50 million economical plus landing solution turbine turbines 433 5h blades expensive 2030 asily uav

Project "Wind-Drone" data sheet

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Coordinator	PRO-DRONE, SA Organization address address: SINES TECNOPOLO Z.I.L. II, 122-A city: SINES postcode: 7520-309 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Portugal [PT]
Project website	http://www.pro-drone.eu/
Total cost	71˙429 €
EC max contribution	50˙000 € (70%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.3.3. (SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy) 2. H2020-EU.2.1.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)) 3. H2020-EU.2.3.1. (Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument)
Code Call	H2020-SMEINST-1-2016-2017
Funding Scheme	SME-1
Starting year	2017
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2017-09-01 to 2017-12-31

Partnership

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	PRO-DRONE, SA PRO-DRONE, SA Organization address address: SINES TECNOPOLO Z.I.L. II, 122-A city: SINES postcode: 7520-309 website: n.a. contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	PT (SINES)	coordinator	50˙000.00

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Project objective

Over the lifetime of a wind turbine, operation and maintenance costs represent 25% of total levelised cost per kWh produced. Half of this cost concerns the blades. Blade inspection procedures still rely on qualified inspectors roping down each blade: a hazardous, time-consuming (5h) and expensive method (1500€). ProDrone’s integrated solution delivers a fully equipped Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based platform for capturing, processing and analysing inspection data, enabling a turbine downtime lower by 6 times and a cost saving of over 50%. Pro-Drone is targeted at wind park operators who seek a reduction in the cost of blade inspection and additional revenues from decreased downtime. Within the overall project, Pro-Drone intends to fully automate the UAV blade inspection process eliminating human intervention in the drone’s take-off and landing phase; optimization of the post-processing algorithm for automatic fault recognition; and complete a sound demonstration and validation of the technology in operation with wind turbine operators. There is over 154 GW of installed wind energy capacity in the EU (over 60.000 wind turbines) and 433 GW globally (314.000 wind turbines!) which can asily adopt this solution and benefit from safer and more economical turbine analysis. The Pro-Drone will effectively contribute to the European 2030 targets of at least 27% renewable energy in final energy consumption at European level and an anticipated €1 million plus will be saved on the total amount of energy installed in EU.

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