Automated 3D Thermal Imaging of Industrial Plants and Residential Buildings by Drones

Projektinformationen

THERMIDRONE

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 718742

DOI

10.3030/718742

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 29 Februar 2016

Startdatum 1 März 2016

Enddatum 30 Juni 2016

Finanziert unter

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Gesamtkosten

€ 71 429,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 50 000,00

Koordiniert durch

LANZADERA DIGITAL SL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - THERMIDRONE (Automated 3D Thermal Imaging of Industrial Plants and Residential Buildings by Drones)

Berichtszeitraum: 2016-03-01 bis 2016-06-30

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

The main objective of the ThermiDrone project is to design and develop an automatic vision Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)-based system able to collect and generate images of buildings and structures in three dimensions (3D) and to include thermal profiling providing 3D thermal models giving useful information for different applications, such as industrial and urban area energy auditing.
“ThermiDrone automated 3D vision system”, is an original hardware and software solution able to take and store huge amounts of data and to process it with complex software algorithms in a new system integrating the AERIS drone with thermal and color cameras and sensors. This new system is able to automatically take and process thousands of thermal and color pictures of a building and data from the sensors, to generate precise 3D models with augmented temperature information. This information is used to calculate the energy losses, their costs and the potential savings if the thermal leaks are fixed. It can lead to energy savings up to 30-40% compared to current energy auditing methods.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

After a detailed study of the technical, commercial and financial requirements of the ThermiDrone system, we can ensure that there are plenty of opportunities in the nascent commercial drone platform market for services as the aerial energy audits and we will be able to develop a commercial solution within a phase 2 project. We are establishing agreements with ESCOs, building owners and other drone operators that are very interested in our solution and willing to participate in the project to test and follow the commercialisation of our solution.

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

The market for Energy Efficiency in Europe is set to grow at a 17.4% annual CAGR until 2023, and forecasts it will grow to 7,000 million € in 2023. Within this market, the service of energy audits is our niche and the most important driver is the new Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU (EED) that establishes that large enterprises are required to be subject to an energy audit by 5 December 2015 and at least every four years thereafter. This directive is being adopted in all countries.
There is an important opportunity for us to enter the energy audits market as an adjunct to our current operations, and we are in a very good position to gain market share. The ThermiDrone project phase 2 will be a strategic opportunity for us to increase our activities, turnover and internationalization.

AERIS drone equipped with color (RGB) camera

Thermal image taken by the AERIS drone