SkyVisor Wind
Drone inspection software for wind turbine blades. SkyVisor Wind plans and flies the mission automatically, detects composite defects with AI, and generates the report, onshore or offshore, on any blade diameter and any manufacturer.
What is SkyVisor Wind?
SkyVisor Wind is the wind branch of SkyVisor's drone inspection and asset management suite, and it is the rotor blade module that this record covers. It gives wind farm owners and operators the software to run blade inspections themselves rather than subcontract them, then to analyse the imagery with AI and turn it into maintenance decisions.
Four pieces make up the product. The DroneApp, written on DJI's SDK, plans and flies the mission: it builds a flight path from the exact turbine model and the terrain elevation, then flies it automatically with centimetric positioning. The web asset management platform receives the images, sorts and pre-processes them, and holds the digital twin of the farm. The AI analytics pipeline — computer-vision pre-processing, custom composite detectors, contextual post-processing — finds and classifies the damage. The mobile FieldApp carries the findings back on site, with GPS and CAD layers to pinpoint each defect.
The figures published on the blade page describe the routine it replaces: one operator, a single rotor stop of roughly twenty minutes, an eighteen-minute flight, some 120 images per blade, and up to eighteen turbines covered in a day. Blades do not have to be pitched and the rotor does not have to be locked. The software works onshore and offshore, on any blade diameter and any manufacturer — the published defect samples span Enercon, Vestas, Nordex, Senvion and GE machines — and eight DJI aircraft are supported, from the Mavic 3E to the Matrice 400 RTK and the Dock 2 and 3.
On the analysis side the detectors are trained for composite rotor blades and cover leading-edge erosion, cracks, lightning damage, delamination and missing add-ons. Defects can be compared between campaigns to date their appearance and follow their spread, and reports come out automatically. SkyVisor claims up to 50% less time spent on defect reporting and O&M costs cut by up to 30%.
The tool is sold in three packages, Light AI, Pro AI and Expert, and is bought through a quote rather than a self-service signup. Its Paris-based publisher claims a presence in more than 42 countries and 10 GW of assets inspected.
What it does
- Fly a full rotor blade inspection automatically, in about eighteen minutes and on a single rotor stop
- Detect and classify composite blade defects with AI: erosion, cracks, lightning damage, delamination, missing add-ons
- Generate the inspection report automatically and customise its labels and layout
- Compare defects between campaigns to date their appearance and follow their propagation
- Build and maintain a digital twin of the wind farm with the defect history attached to it
- Locate and act on defects on site through the mobile field application, with GPS and CAD layers
- Share findings with colleagues and subcontractors and push results into CMMS and repair workflows
When to use SkyVisor Wind / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if SkyVisor Wind is the right fit.
When to use SkyVisor Wind
- Independent Power Producers running their own onshore or offshore wind portfolios and wanting to schedule blade inspections on their own calendar
- Independent Service Providers and O&M contractors who inspect turbines for third parties and need standardised, repeatable evidence
- Turbine OEMs carrying out high-volume inspection campaigns and issuing customised reports to their own clients
- Maintenance and reliability teams building a predictive strategy around blade defect propagation rather than calendar-based checks
- Operators managing wind and solar side by side, since the same drone and the same interface cover both asset families
When not to use SkyVisor Wind
- Owners who would rather buy an inspection as a service, since the whole product is built around doing the flights in-house
- Teams with no drone and no intention of acquiring one, as a compatible DJI aircraft and, in most locations, a pilot licence are prerequisites
- Buyers who need to compare a published price list before talking to anyone, because there is no pricing page and no self-service signup
- Anyone looking for internal blade inspection or non-destructive testing, as the product covers external visual data only
- Procurement and legal teams that require a data processing agreement, a subprocessor list or a security page before evaluating a vendor
How to use SkyVisor Wind
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Request a quote through the contact form and pick the package that matches the analysis you want to keep in-house
- Take the free drone selection consultation and receive a compatible DJI aircraft prepared and ready to fly
- Follow the one-day training, on site or remote, and use the e-learning platform to bring the rest of the team up to speed
- Plan the campaign in the software, which checks legal requirements, technician availability and weather
- On site, take the four key pictures manually, then let the drone fly the rest of the mission autonomously
- Annotate defects on the remote controller while the flight is running
- Upload the images to app.skyvisor.io, where they are sorted and pre-processed automatically
- Let the AI pipeline classify the defects, then review, annotate and locate them in the web platform
- Compare the campaign with previous ones to date each defect and judge how fast it is spreading
- Generate the report, share it with colleagues or subcontractors, and follow the repair on site with the FieldApp
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Very short and low-impact intervention: eighteen minutes, one rotor stop, one operator, no blade pitching
- Manufacturer-agnostic and site-agnostic, onshore or offshore, on any blade diameter
- Detectors built specifically for composite rotor blades, with measured defect samples published on the product page
- Claimed gains are concrete and quantified: up to 50% less reporting time and up to 30% lower O&M costs
- Hosting flexibility, with private cloud or on-premise options and a stated commitment to customer control over data location
- Onboarding is part of the package: drone kit preparation, one-day training, e-learning, dedicated account manager
- A public entry price exists at all in a segment where quotes are usually the only answer
Cons
- No pricing page: the only public figure sits inside a comparison article on the site's own blog
- No permanent free plan and no free trial announced by the vendor
- The privacy policy is the default WordPress template and covers the marketing site, never the inspection data
- No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no security or trust page, and no GDPR claim from a French publisher
- An API is sold in the Pro AI tier but no API documentation is published anywhere on the site
- Hardware and licensing stay with the customer: a compatible DJI drone, and a pilot licence in most locations
- Qualified composite expert review, with root cause and next step, is only bundled in the top Expert tier
Pricing & Plans
No permanent free plan and no free trial are announced. SkyVisor Wind is licensed per asset and per year, the vendor describing its model as in-housing, priced per turbine or per MW a year with unlimited inspections. Prices are not published on a pricing page and are obtained through a quote. The only public figure, given in a comparison article on the site, is a starting point of 265.00 USD per wind turbine per year; the equivalent solar figure is 215.00 USD per solar farm per year.
- defect annotation tools and automatic filtering of defect images
- everything in Light
- plus automatic defect detection by type
- category and multi-view
- external data integration for LPS
- rover and rope access
- SAML SSO with API integration
- and phone support
- everything in Pro
- plus review by a qualified composite expert giving a note
- a root cause and a next step
- and blade maintenance recommendations
- drone kit preparation
- on-site training or e-learning
- a dedicated account manager and multilingual email support
- No amount is displayed next to any tier
- the contact form also lists a Custom option reserved for solar construction
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how SkyVisor Wind handles your data.
GDPR overview
SkyVisor SAS is registered in Paris and therefore falls under the GDPR by establishment, yet the site never claims compliance anywhere. A search across every collected page returns no mention of the regulation other than the name of the WordPress consent plugin. There is a Complianz cookie banner with four categories, functional consent being permanent, and the contact form asks for explicit marketing consent. The privacy policy, a default WordPress template, grants an export request and an erasure request for account and comment data, minus what must be kept for administrative, legal or security reasons. No data protection officer is named, no processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor list is published and no dedicated privacy mailbox exists: the only address on the legal page is contact@skyvisor.fr.
Who owns the data?
SkyVisor publishes no product terms of service and no data processing agreement, so the ownership of inspection imagery is never settled in a contractual document on the site. What is stated is a commercial position, in the vendor's own comparison article: customers can pick private cloud or on-premise hosting and keep full control over data location and access, explicitly framed against being locked into a supplier's cloud forever. Customers may also import imagery from their past inspections, from any source. The published privacy policy is the default WordPress template and covers the marketing website only, so it says nothing about who owns asset data or who at SkyVisor may consult it.
Reuse rights
Nothing on the site restricts what a customer does with its own inspection output. Images, annotations and the automatically generated reports are meant to circulate: colleagues and subcontractors can be invited onto the platform, reports can be forwarded outside it, defect labels and report templates can be customised to the operator's own conventions, and results can be exported towards CMMS and maintenance systems to open repair tickets. Because no product terms of service are published, this freedom rests on how the tool is marketed rather than on a licence clause. Conversely, the site never says whether SkyVisor may reuse customer imagery, in particular to improve its detectors.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
SkyVisor markets hosting flexibility rather than a fixed jurisdiction. Its comparison article offers private cloud or on-premise hosting, claims full control over where data sits and who reaches it, and mentions local hosting options aimed at United States compliance requirements. The working platform runs at app.skyvisor.io and is reachable from any browser. No hosting country or region is ever named for customer inspection data, so the jurisdiction is decided by the contract, not by anything published. The only hosting fact stated on the site concerns the marketing website itself: the legal page names The Constant Company LLC, 4 rue de Marivaux, 75002 Paris, described as Paris servers, which says nothing about where imagery and reports are stored. The domain resolves to a Cloudflare anycast node, which likewise indicates no storage location. Anyone with a data residency requirement should get it written into the agreement.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting SkyVisor Wind.
- The only public price comes from a comparison article on the vendor's blog, not from a pricing page, and is expressed per turbine per year: treat it as an order of magnitude and ask for a current quote
- No product contract is published, so who owns and may reuse the inspection imagery rests on marketing copy rather than on a clause you can point to
- No hosting country is ever named, even though control over data location is one of the vendor's main selling arguments
- Trusting an automatic detector can quietly erode a team's own eye for damage; the Expert tier exists precisely because a composite specialist still reads blades differently from a model
- An eighteen-minute flight makes inspections cheap enough to multiply, which can turn into image backlogs nobody reviews rather than into better maintenance decisions
- The site contradicts itself on its own address and founding year, which is a small thing but a reminder to verify anything load-bearing directly with the publisher
- The drone, and a pilot licence in most locations, remain the customer's responsibility, along with the safety and regulatory duties that come with flying near a turbine
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Low for the operator, moderate as a project. SkyVisor runs a free drone selection consultation, prepares the drone kit and delivers it ready to fly, then provides one day of training on site or remotely plus an e-learning platform and a dedicated account manager. In the field, four manual pictures start the mission and the rest of the flight is automatic; customers describe the drone as simple to set up even for people who are not technically minded. The real hurdles sit upstream: owning a compatible DJI aircraft and holding a pilot licence, which is compulsory in most wind farm locations.
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Frequently asked questions
Do we need a drone pilot licence to inspect our turbines?
Does the software work with our turbine models?
Do we have to stop the turbine?
How difficult is the flight itself?
Who analyses the images after the inspection?
Can we bring in inspection data we already have?
How much does it cost?
What does SkyVisor publish about data protection?
Should you pick SkyVisor Wind?
SkyVisor Wind is one of the more concrete blade inspection products on the market, because it is described in numbers rather than in promises. Eighteen minutes per turbine, one rotor stop, one operator, 120 images per blade, eight supported DJI aircraft, defect samples published with their size and the turbine they came from: an O&M manager can work out from the product page alone whether the routine fits their fleet. The three tiers are legible too, and the split between annotating yourself, letting the AI classify, and paying for a composite expert's opinion maps cleanly onto how much analysis a team wants to keep in-house.
The publisher looks solid for its size. SkyVisor SAS is a Paris company registered in the Paris commercial register, declared as a drone operator with the French civil aviation authority, funded with EUR 1.2 million in December 2024 by Tomcat, BPIfrance and the Ile-de-France region, and it names its customers and its whole team publicly.
What is thin is everything a buyer's legal and security review would ask for. There are no product terms of service, no data processing agreement, no subprocessor list, no retention rule for inspection imagery, and no statement of GDPR compliance at all — from a French vendor, that absence is surprising rather than damning, but it is an absence. The privacy policy on the site is the default WordPress template and covers the marketing pages only. An API is sold in the Pro tier without a line of documentation. And the single public price sits in a blog comparison, not on a pricing page.
The verdict follows the split: strong on the engineering, unfinished on the paperwork. Ask for the contract, the hosting jurisdiction and a current quote before committing.
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