Aerial inspection · the program
The inspection round, flown for you.
A docked drone flies your roofs, perimeter, and assets on a schedule, streams what it sees, and lands itself to charge. The program is designed inside current aviation rules, and we keep it flying.
- All 50
- US states served
- 85+
- metros, closest-hub dispatch
- <10 min
- 24/7 tech support
- 24/7
- emergency response
What it is
A recurring aerial inspection program is a dock, an aircraft, and a set of scheduled routes over the things you need eyes on: roofs, perimeters, masts, racks, and rows. The drone launches on schedule, flies the route, streams and records what it sees, and lands itself to charge. Service Robot Co. designs the program inside current aviation rules, deploys it, and services it nationwide.
See it running on your floor.
We scope the work on a site assessment and prove the system on your operation before you commit.
Use cases
Where drones go to work.
The same docked program covers very different jobs. Three where aerial eyes change the work the most.
First response
When minutes matter, a drone puts eyes over an incident before a crew can get there. Responders use it for a fast read on a scene, a search across open or hard-to-reach ground, and a live overhead view while a situation is still developing.
Wildfire
Drones map active fire ground, watch a perimeter and known hot spots, and return for post-fire assessment. Scheduled and on-demand flights cover terrain that is slow or unsafe to reach on foot, and every pass leaves a record to compare against the last.
Solar arrays
A docked drone flies scan routes over ground-mount rows, covering in minutes what a panel-by-panel walk takes days. Thermal payloads, where a site needs them, flag hot spots and failing connections across the array for your team to act on.
Inside the operation
One inspection cycle, plan to repeat.
The value is not one flight. It is the same flight, on schedule, with a record every time.
Field notes
$54.6B
The commercial drone market by 2030. Aerial work is becoming a line item, not an experiment.
Grand View Research
19.7%
Annual growth of drone-in-a-box programs through 2030, the docked model that removes the standing pilot.
The Business Research Company
$3.5B
Where the docked-drone market alone lands by 2030, up from under a billion in 2022.
Fortune Business Insights
Support & service
Service nationwide.
- 24-hour nationwide on-site dispatch.
- 10-minute remote triage during business hours.
The operation, up close
What actually decides the outcome.
A program, not a gadget
The aircraft is the easy part. The hard part is running the operation: siting the dock, designing routes, staying inside aviation rules, and keeping the hardware serviced. That is the part we own. Your team gets the footage and the findings; we carry the program.
Honest about the rules
What you may fly depends on your location, your airspace, and how you want to operate. We scope that honestly in the site assessment and design the program inside what is actually approved, not what a brochure promises. Weather limits are part of the design too, so coverage expectations stay honest.
What a round covers
Roofs and parapets without a ladder. Fence lines in minutes instead of a walking hour. Solar rows, substations, towers, and yards without rolling a truck or renting a lift. The assets that were inspected yearly because access was painful get inspected weekly because access is a schedule.
What the OEM does not do
Five things an integrator carries that a bare OEM does not.
Buying the robot is the easy part. This is the rest of the job.
Sales, neutrally
We pick the right unit for your floor from the whole market, instead of fitting your operation to the one product a maker happens to sell.
Integration
We wire the robot into the software that runs your operation, so it knows what to do next. A robot with no hook-up is an expensive paperweight.
Financing
Buy vs. Robotics-as-a-Service, surfaced honestly with the real total-cost math, so your finance team picks the structure that fits utilization.
Deployment
Mapping, setup, safety, and commissioning on a live floor. The part most direct buyers underestimate, and where projects stall.
Nationwide service
A US engineer network with a backup unit ready, so a dead robot is our problem, not your shift. The one thing most OEMs cannot offer a US customer.
All five, carried for you.
Tell us the floor and the job. We answer with the unit, the math, and the plan.
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Two ways to buy
An integrator, or direct from the OEM.
A comparison of the two purchasing models, not a knock on any one maker. Many OEMs partner with integrators precisely to close this gap.
Robots on this operation
The machines doing the work.
On the floor
Where you'll see it working.
Proof
Deployments we can point to.
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