All this to learn at the drone conference UNC 2022 in Norway

You will not be able to attend all nine workshops, but eight are possible. Then you can learn about several new ways to make money from your drones.

The nine workshops at UNC 2022 will take place in parallel. The same workshop on the first and second day of the conference means that participants who really want to take advantage of the opportunity may be able to to attend eight. 

– We have selected a number of areas where it is easy to extract profit, meaning it’s easy to extract the value of the data that the drone collects, says Anders Martinsen, CEO of UAS Norway.

He says that the workshops are the answer to requests from the industry and the members of UAS Norway.

– The workshops at UNC will give the participants what they need to make money from their drone. They will get an introduction to the areas of use, the methods and the workflow.

Participants in the workshops will learn about everything from inspection of buildings, both outdoors and indoors, to underwater inspections and photo/video.

In the middle of the energy crisis, there will also be a workshop about how to use drones to search for faults in solar systems. Not the solar cells on the neighbour’s roof, but up to the huge facilities that cover the roofs on large buildings and several thousand square meters on the ground.

Rapidly growing energy source

Solar power is the fastest growing energy source in the world. According to Statkraft’s Low Emissions Scenario, it is expected that solar power will become the world’s largest source of electricity from 2035, says a press release from the Norwegian University of Environmental and Biosciences (NMBU).

In order to use solar power as an energy source on a really large scale, a large number of solar cells must be combined and assembled as panels in huge facilities. However, in such large facilities it is difficult to find modules that are damaged or do not work properly.

In the middle of the energy crisis, there will also be a workshop on how to use drones to look for faults in solar systems. Not the solar cells on the neighbour’s roof, but up to the huge facilities that cover the roofs of large buildings and several meters out on the ground.

Solar power rapidly growing energy source

Solar power is the fastest growing energy source in the world. According to Statkraft’s Low Emissions Scenario, it is expected that solar power will become the world’s largest source of electricity from 2035, says a press release from the Norwegian University of Environmental and Biosciences (NMBU).

In order to use solar power as an energy source on a really large scale, a large number of solar cells must be combined and assembled as panels in huge facilities. However, in such large facilities it is difficult to find modules that are damaged or do not work properly. Sensors and cameras on drones are the tools that enable you to find these modules faster than with other methods.

With the right equipment on the camera, a picture can tell which solar cells need to be repaired or replaced. PHOTO: NMBU

Researchers, among others at the Norwegian University of Environmental and Biosciences (NMBU) in Ås, are working with new and better methods to find the modules with errors.

One of the methods has been tested on a smaller scale. Now testing on larger solar systems is on the way, and then the use of drones is on the agenda.

These are the workshops at UNC 2022: