Solar energy: drone photogrammetry for panel integration
Before placing a solar panel on an existing site, you need to know the topography down to the centimeter. Inside a project where the digital twin replaced six site visits.
Integrating a solar plant on an existing site isn't just about panels. It's a geometric puzzle: cast shadows, roof or terrain constraints, maintenance access, fire safety, grid connection.
On this kind of project, immersive digitization changes how you design. A single drone capture mission (high-resolution photogrammetry + light LiDAR) is enough to produce a usable point cloud in SIGNAK®, completed by an IMERSA® tour that lets field teams and investors navigate the site.
What you actually get
- Engineers validate panel layouts without climbing on the roof
- Design office can simulate seasonal shadows on the model
- End client visualizes the result before signing, accelerating decisions
- Documentation stays alive: when a module is added later, only the relevant zone is updated
Why it works on complex sites too
Dams, hydroelectric plants, gas substations like the PDC in Vevey: all these sites share the same constraint ; safety drastically limits the number of possible visits. The digital twin then becomes the only space where coordination between operators, engineering firms and contractors can happen at the same scale, at the same time.