drone solutions

Utility Inspection

Aerial visual inspection of power, telecoms, pipeline and industrial assets — closer access, less risk.

See the asset without climbing it

Sending a person up a 60-metre tower has a cost: time, risk and downtime. Sending a drone has a different cost — and most defects show up clearly in good photography. We capture the asset, the surroundings and the things that worry maintenance teams, while keeping people on the ground.

It works for distribution and transmission lines, telecom towers, rooftops, tank farms, solar plants and most of the difficult-access infrastructure in between. The output is photographs you can act on and a written observation log.

Drone utility inspection of towers and infrastructure

What you receive

The pack is shaped around how your asset team makes decisions.

High-resolution imagery

Detailed photos from angles a climber wouldn't reach, in sequences that follow the asset.

Inspection video

Stabilised footage for route review, condition documentation and stakeholder briefings.

Defect observations

Annotated notes flagging visible wear, corrosion, damage, encroachment and access concerns.

Asset documentation archive

Capture records organised by asset and date. Easy to revisit when next year's inspection rolls around.

How an inspection runs

Planned around safety, asset access and the level of detail your team needs to act on.

  1. 01

    Asset and risk review

    We map out the assets, access, airspace and inspection objectives before anybody flies.

  2. 02

    Flight and capture plan

    Pilots set safe paths, viewpoints, stand-off distances and capture settings for each asset type.

  3. 03

    Aerial inspection

    Certified operators capture stills and video while keeping safe operations around people, property and live infrastructure.

  4. 04

    Review-ready handover

    Imagery and notes packaged so your engineering or maintenance lead can act, not sort.

Assets we cover

Useful wherever visibility and access are the limit.

Power and telecoms

Towers, lines, poles, rooftop equipment — and everything underneath them.

Pipelines and corridors

Route condition, encroachment, erosion and surrounding land-use change.

Industrial sites

Roofs, tanks, structures, yards and the access points nobody wants to climb.

Solar farms and renewable energy

Thermal and visual inspection of solar panels, inverters and electrical infrastructure — hot spots, damaged cells and underperforming strings identified from the air.

Safer access, sharper decisions

Most of the value is in the photographs. The rest is in the discipline of capturing them consistently, reporting clearly, and making sure the dangerous parts of the work happened from the ground.

Related services

Other things our team gets brought in for, often on the same projects.

Pilot Hire

  • Certified pilots
  • Mission planning
  • Field support

Aerial LiDAR Survey

  • Point clouds
  • Bare-earth DTM
  • Corridor profiles

Underground Utility Survey

  • GPR detection
  • Utility plans
  • Records correlation

Work Progress Monitoring

  • Repeat flights
  • Site reports
  • Progress archive

Backed by certifications, partnerships and standards that matter

We hold the regulatory approvals and supplier partnerships required to deliver compliant, audit-ready geospatial outcomes across East Africa.

KCAA Approved Remote Air Operator (ROC)
NEMA Registered EIA / EA Lead Experts
ISK Member, Institution of Surveyors of Kenya
The Technical University of Kenya