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Inspect without closing the asset.

Bridges, roads, power lines, dams, tunnels, wind and solar. Captured from the air, on a repeatable cadence, without scaffolding or rope access.

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Asset classes

Seven asset classes. One flight profile.

BRIDGE

Bridges

Capture soffits, box girders, bearings and piers without rope access or a lifting platform. The drone reaches what would otherwise need an under-bridge unit and a closure, and delivers the imagery for assessment.

  • Soffit & girders
  • Bearings & piers
  • No closure

ROAD

Roads

Corridor flights for condition capture, damage mapping and works documentation. Photogrammetry delivers survey data and a terrain model instead of loose photos.

  • Condition capture
  • Damage mapping
  • Photogrammetry

GRID

Power lines

Fly pylons, insulators, conductors and corridors visually and thermographically. Hot joints and corrosion show up in the imagery before they become an outage.

  • Pylon & insulator survey
  • Thermography
  • Corridor flights

DAM

Dams

Capture the downstream face, crest and structure on a regular basis. Deformation, seepage and vegetation become comparable across passes rather than logged once.

  • Structure & crest
  • Seepage & moisture
  • Change detection

TUNNEL

Tunnels

Capture portals, crowns and service areas, including where GNSS is unavailable. The survey does not replace the inspection; it shortens the gap between inspection dates.

  • Portal & crown
  • GNSS-denied
  • Between inspections

WIND

Wind turbines

Fly blades and tower on an automated profile instead of roping in technicians. Downtime runs in minutes rather than hours, and blade condition stays comparable over years.

  • Blade inspection
  • Tower & nacelle
  • Short downtime

SOLAR

Solar

Thermography across the array finds hotspots, failed bypass diodes and offline strings. One flight checks in minutes what a hand-held walk-through needs days for.

  • Hotspot detection
  • String failures
  • Ground-mount & roof

Asset-base figures: 40,264 bridge structures on federal trunk roads (BASt, as of 03/2026), 50,942 km of trunk road (Fernstraßen-Bundesamt, as of 01/2025), 37,900 km of extra-high-voltage transmission lines (BNetzA monitoring report 2025, as of 12/2024), 30,906 wind turbines onshore and offshore (FA Wind und Solar and Deutsche WindGuard, as of 12/2025). Figures for Germany.

From the air

Where scaffolding and closures set the interval.

How it works

Capture. Fly. Compare.

01

Capture

The asset, the inspection interval and the access problem are recorded. That becomes a flight profile which repeats identically on every pass.

02

Fly

The right drone flies the mission, matched manufacturer-independently from the partner network and compliant with EU drone regulation 2019/947. BVLOS scenarios are structured via specialised partners.

03

Compare

Imagery, thermography and change detection converge in the cockpit. The value sits in the difference between two passes, not in the single photo.

Note: wedrone is a systems integrator and does not perform statutory inspection under DIN 1076. The survey provides capture and imagery; assessment and the mandated inspection remain with the qualified engineer. Approvability depends on the specific case.

Ground side

What does not need to fly, drives or walks.

Substation and tunnel rounds, plant rooms and solar-array cleaning do not run on drones but on legged and mobile robots. That is the ground side of the same asset, and it is specified together with the aerial work.

werob infrastructure: ground robotics

FAQ

Which infrastructure does wedrone fly?
Bridges, roads, power lines, dams, tunnels, wind turbines and solar arrays. Germany alone carries 40,264 bridge structures on its federal trunk roads (BASt, March 2026), around 51,000 km of trunk road, about 37,900 km of extra-high-voltage transmission lines (BNetzA, end of 2024) and 30,906 wind turbines (end of 2025). Every one of these assets sits on a mandated inspection interval.
Does a survey replace a statutory bridge inspection?
No. The inspection under DIN 1076 is carried out by a qualified engineer, and a drone does not change that. The survey provides the routine capture between inspection dates and the imagery for hard-to-reach areas. It does not replace an inspection; it shortens the window in which nobody is looking.
What is the actual advantage over a walk-through?
Repeatability. A person with a camera photographs slightly different spots from slightly different angles at every visit. A flight profile flies the same route with the same waypoints and the same angles. That is what turns individual findings into a trend, so a crack or a hot joint can be traced over years.
How does this work under regulation?
Under EU drone regulation 2019/947. wedrone structures the operational category, risk assessment and approval path; specialised partners run the procedures. Flights over traffic routes, along corridors or beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) each need their own case, settled before the first flight.
Who is this for?
For road authorities and asset owners, grid operators and utilities, dam and water-management bodies, wind and solar park operators, and engineering firms that deliver inspection services and want to outsource the capture.
What if the asset is reachable from the ground?
Then nothing flies; it drives or walks. Substation rounds, tunnel and plant-room rounds or solar-array cleaning run on werob's ground robotics. Most real infrastructure programmes need both, and they are specified together.

Your structure, captured without a closure.

Describe the asset, the inspection interval and the access problem. We structure regulation and partners and bring the survey into routine operation.

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