Industry Solutions
Specialized drone surveillance solutions tailored for diverse industries. Empowering progress through precision.
Solar Power
Infrastructure
Mining
Railways & Metro
Power Lines
Wind Energy
Solar Power
Solar Power is the fastest growing renewable energy source worldwide. India has reached about 127GW of installed capacity, out of which 29GW has been installed in 2025 alone so far. Lesoko provides full stack Drone As A Service based solutions for the entire project life cycle ranging from project feasibility, survey, installation and during operation and maintenance. Our expertise leverages advanced drone technology and we have served some of the biggest players in the solar power industry, helping them maximize power generation output and grow revenue. Discover more about our solutions for the Solar Industry below.
Wind Power Industry
Wind Power is a significant and fast-growing renewable energy source in India. India has about 51GW of installed capacity, and targets to reach about 100GW by 2030. Lesoko helps wind power plant owners with their innovative drone-based solutions for the entire project life cycle. Adding around 8-15GW of installed capacity each year, the industry is rapidly growing attracting investors from private players as well. The potential for wind power generation at 150m in India stands at 1164GW, which means that only 4.5% of the potential has been tapped so far. Thus, the potential for Wind Power Generation is still very huge. Wind power generation is inherently seasonal, it is critical that generation is continuous during the season. This calls for maintenance during the off-season period and ensuring all the equipment is in top notch condition. Read on to find out more about how Lesoko powers wind power projects.
Infrastructure
As India marches toward becoming the third largest economy in the world, its cities have seen tremendous growth. Urban migration has increased multiple folds and our cities are struggling to keep up with the infrastructure needs of the people. As a result, Cities must expand and new areas must be developed inevitably. Infrastructure has to be developed as greenfield projects in new areas whereas in existing areas of Cities, infrastructure has to be retrofitted as they have reached the end of their useful lives. The Smart Cities mission by the Union Government has given a tremendous impetus to creation of public infrastructure for transport, waste management, energy management and digital governance keeping in mind the future needs for innovation, efficiency and sustainability.
Building innovative and futuristic infrastructure requires fast and accurate solutions for planning, surveying and project management. Lesoko provides just that exactly! Read on to find out more.
Railways & Metro
India boasts of having the 4th largest railway network in the world. Passenger volume has crossed 7 billion alone in FY25 already with revenue of about Rs.75,000 crore. Nearly the entire broad-gauge network in India is electrified resulting in reduction in accident rates. The introduction of Vande Bharat has added premium chair car services as well. Urban connectivity has seen a massive increase with the introduction of metros. Metros are operational in over 1000km in 23 cities across India with another 1300km proposed and in the pipeline. Railways and Metros put together, form the backbone of passenger and freight transport in the country and it is paramount to keep the systems functional, safe and efficient. Having worked with the likes of Southern Railways, Lesoko possess deep expertise in inspection of maintenance of railway systems. Find out more about Lesoko’s capabilities below.
Mining
The Mining sector contributes 2% directly to India’s GDP output and employs about 1.1 million people. India ranks #2 in the world for Coal, Steel and Aluminium output and #4 in the world for Iron ore production. The National Critical Mining Mission (NCMM) has given even more impetus to mine critical minerals that will reduce India’s dependence on imports. The scale at which mining infrastructure projects operate is humongous since it covers a wide geographical area. The terrain in which such projects are located also pose a significant challenge to even start mining operations. Months of work is needed to just establish connectivity to the actual mining location. Often project developers have to navigate a slew of regulatory and environmental concerns as such projects are sensitive in nature inherently.
The applications of drone-based solutions are multi-fold in this industry as a lot of problems can be solved with this technology. Wherever human intervention is time consuming and is too risky, we can engage drones to act on our behalf. Lesoko has deep and significant expertise in solving such problems. Read on to find out.
Transmission Line Industry
The Electricity transmission industry is the backbone of the power industry carrying power from the generation sources to the distributors who make it available to the end customers. The transmission system involves carrying high voltage electricity ranging from 33kV to 765kV over long distances by means of conductors which are suspended and supported at intermediate points by means of high mast towers. Typically, about 3%-6% of power transmitted is lost as it is transported over long distances. The transmission line industry faces massive challenges during its project life cycle from concept to commissioning and during operation and maintenance. Lesoko provides focussed and specialised solutions for the transmission industry during every phase of the project life cycle!
Solar Panel Inspection
Rooftop Solar Survey
Ground Mount Solar Survey
Night Surveillance
Project Progress Monitoring
Catenary Wire Inspection
Overhead Equipment Inspection
LiDAR Survey & Mapping
Survey & Mapping
Inspection & Monitoring
Project Progress Monitoring
Transmission Line Inspection
Route Alignment Survey
LiDAR Survey
Project Progress Monitoring
Wind Blade Inspection
Survey and Planning
Project Progress Monitoring
Survey & Mapping and planning
Project Monitoring & Management
Solar Panel Inspection
Low PLF affecting your solar power plant’s generation potential? Our Inspection solutions can help. Manual inspection and maintenance in the solar power plant is often difficult and time consuming.
If a panel is not producing the expected output, intervention should be instant and that’s possible when you identify the reason for underperformance of the panel and its location.
Our inspection solutions can cut down the time involved in identifying defects in the panel and classify them to assist maintenance teams to intervene instantly. Our thermal imaging solutions can not only identify hotspots and their location but also help classify the nature of the defect or the reason for the hotspot(s) such as bird droppings, shadows or vegetation growth.
Our drones have IR imaging capabilities to inspect the PV modules and identify paint marks, strip and diode errors, breakage and dust collection. Regular inspection of your facility will help identify such performance bottlenecks and improve PLF.
Some of our deliverables during the inspection include
Thermal & Visual Inspection
PV Module IR Imaging3
Solar Plant Thermography
Defect identification
Wind Blade Inspection
Problems in wind turbine blades resulting in downtimes? Lesoko can help by identifying issues in your wind turbine blades in days rather than in weeks and months with manual solutions. No more scaffolding, dangerous climbs by workmen to the top.
Replace manual inspections that requires risky manoeuvres with our reliable closeup photographs taken by our drones during off season times.
Our aerial survey with thermographic imaging can help identify micro-cracks in the blades, areas struck by lightning and paint peel off at manually inaccessible locations on both sides of the windmill.
Our trained pilots can make our drones navigate every nook and corner providing you with immaculate photographs that can be used for identifying defects.
We can even schedule flights during plant operations that can help identify defects so that you need not stop power generation for inspection purposes. This data can even be live streamed in real-time for faster defect identification.
Our Wind blade Inspection solution provides you the following
Cracks and Erosion detection
Lightning Strike Damage Assessment
Survey and Planning
Wanted a quick and detailed survey of a potential wind farm site? Don’t think twice about reaching out to Lesoko. Our GIS based site selection surveys can help you identify land use around the site.
These surveys can help you navigate land use constraints and environmental concerns. Since the direction and velocity of wind is critical, it is important to map meteorological data with geospatial data to help you place your turbine optimally in order to maximize generation.
Our topographical survey solutions can help business owners navigate land acquisition challenges and environmental concerns that prop up during the establishment of a wind power plant. We also provide Digital terrain models that help you and your consultants visualize the topography and identify any obstacles that might hinder wind flow during planning stage itself.
Any obstacles that might arise out because of existing transmission lines at the site and while connecting the generated output to the grid.
Our Survey and Planning Solutions Include:
Land Feasibility Survey
Terrain & Topographical Survey
Access Route Planning
Environmental Impact Mapping
Project Monitoring
Want to stay on top of what’s happening in your wind farm project? Try Lesoko’s project monitoring solutions. Our experienced project engineers provide you detailed progress of works at your site with photos and videos taken at desired intervals and desired frequencies.
We can also help monitor project progress with respect to your L2 network schedules and provide you Actual vs Planned Progress updates so that you can stay updated on what’s going well and what’s not. Right from day one, we can provide you with insightful and actionable reports on the progress of various construction activities.
Our well documented reports serve as the basis for monitoring your project contractor’s progress and might also serve as crucial piece of evidence in case any disputes or need for arbitration arises in the future.
Our project management expertise can help you in the below areas during execution:
Access Road & Site Infrastructure Monitoring
Construction Milestone Tracking
Foundation & Tower Erection Updates
Turbine Installation Progress Mapping
Survey & Mapping and planning
Are you an urban planner or part of the city administration? Lesoko offers a plethora of services for planners and officials alike.
Our accurate and high-resolution aerial surveys with precise latitude and longitudinal co-ordinates can map out entire cities which can be used for a wide variety of functions. Our drones conduct precise LiDAR surveys and our software can be used to superimpose existing survey drawings which provide a realistic view of existing property boundaries.
These are extremely helpful for demarcation of properties, determining land clearance and acquisition needed for new projects, zone planning, disaster management and providing relief, route planning for public transportation and so on.
Some use cases of our survey and mapping solutions are:
GIS-based Survey & Mapping
LiDAR Mapping
Topographical Survey
Slum-based Socio-economic Household Survey
Land Use & Land Plan Survey
Aerial Survey
LiDAR Survey
Tree Census
Encroachment Analysis
Corridor Mapping
City Planning & Urban Fabrication
Cadastral Map Superimposition
Spatial Zone Identification
Suitable Site Selection
Land Use Allocation Process
Smart City and urban development planning
Project Monitoring & Management
Building infrastructure projects is a challenge. Do it at the scale of a large metro city in a densely populated country like India makes it even tougher. Successful Project Execution is only possible with tight monitoring, assessment and control.
Lesoko makes the job of a Project Manager less tiring by providing them with state-of-the-art reports for project monitoring and control.
Projects undertaken by state owned as well as privately held entities stand to benefit immensely if they are able to identify obstacles beforehand and plan well in advance so that execution does not stop for want of physical clearances at site. Our solutions can also be helpful in compliance management and obtaining statutory approvals.
Project sponsors and clients stand to benefit from real-time feedback on the progress of construction works at various sites.
Our Project management solutions can help in:
Progress Monitoring
Implementation of SOPs
Evaluation of Potential Obstacles
Construction Monitoring
Rooftop Solar Survey
Thinking of Captive Rooftop Solar solutions? Here’s how Lesoko can help. While conducting project feasibility studies, our Rooftop Solar Survey can help you map the entire topography surrounding your factory or buildings. Our drones are capable of mapping the entire roofs of your proposed site and give you accurate 3D models.
Our technology can even map out the structural members, their location, spans, etc and give you 2D drawings. We can also provide inputs to your structural engineers and architects by analysing the sheet profile so that it gives them a really good headstart while planning your installations.
Our pioneering technology can even simulate incidence of shadows at the site during different times of the day so that the panels can be placed optimally to maximize power generation. We can also map out existing roof top installations for further engineering study.
Our deliverables include:
Building feasibility study
2D/3d drawings
Shadow analysis
Solar PV Module Measurements
Night Surveillance
Having nightmares about the safety of your project assets? Look no further than night surveillance solutions from Lesoko.
Our security and surveillance solutions can help augment and increase the effectiveness of the security deployment at your project site whether during construction or during operation.
Our personnel stationed at your project sites can help plan random drone flights at night that can audit the alertness of your security personnel. We have also helped identifying cable theft, intrusion of unauthorized persons in the project site, and even alerted project sponsors about the presence of wildlife in wee hours nearby the project site.
Our drones carry night vision cameras that can help you identify thieves and provide immediate alerts. We have also helped our clients identify fire at places inside or outside the project boundaries so that any loss can be neutralized beforehand. Our planned and surprise patrols at night help you sleep peacefully without worrying about thefts.
The deliverables of our night surveillance solutions include:
Anomalies detection
Wild life intrusion
Security alertness
Theft detection
Ground Mount Solar Survey
Worried your pre-feasibility surveys for a ground mount solar project will take you months? Lesoks’s ground survey can help you reduce the time involved significantly.
Our drones can fly over acres of land, mapping the terrain accurately and quickly. This is a significant leap from manual survey which might take months to complete. Our survey gives you contour maps with spot levels spread over acres of land.
Color coded maps provide rich and interactive feature visualisations. We can even estimate the forest cover in the area by doing a vegetation survey too.
We also help in quantity surveying by providing the volume of earth to be excavated or levelled. Identifying areas in which cutting has to be done and areas in which filling has to be done will be a breeze now. All these inputs help you release tender documents faster and help your project progress towards execution faster than ever before!
The outputs of our ground mount survey include:
Topographical Survey
Land Slope & Gradient Profiling
Solar PV Module Measurements
Land Profiling for Accurate Design Layouts
Project Progress Monitoring
What’s happening at XYZ location? How much work has happened at the site today? Are enough machinery deployed at site? How many labourers are working at site today? Do the above questions sound familiar to you?
The project sponsors are always curious to know what’s happening at site on a real-time basis.
Responding to them is a top priority and might take up significant time of your project resources. Often as the project’s lead manager, you might also want to audit the work done by your sub-contractors at site and keep a record of the work done on a daily or weekly basis.
Lesoko’s project progress monitoring solutions help you do that easily. Our project engineers stationed at your sites can help you monitor project progress by scheduling drone flights at desired intervals and give you real-time photos and videos at the site.
Our project management solutions give you:
Day to day activity monitoring
Labour count
Machinery count
Project progress ( block and sections wise)
Anomalies detection
Unauthorised entry detection
Survey & Mapping
Surveying and Mapping is an obvious use case in the mining industry for drone technologies.
Replace slow and less accurate manual methods of survey with our drone surveys. Lesoko has all your use cases that you can think of covered. Mapping topological terrain data is the first activity. Integrating it with GIS can help you identify forest cover, contour data, any ecologically sensitive areas, wildlife habitats, tribal settlements, water sources, etc.
During Environment impact assessment studies also, survey can be quite helpful to maintain documented evidence for obtaining approvals and clearances.
Contour data can the be used in planning access roads and estimate the ideal approach routes to be formed. Once the approach routes are finalized, this data will further be used in laying slopes that are appropriate for the haulage trucks to move in and out of the project during operations.
Heavy mining machinery such as excavators, tunnel boring machines, etc have to be safely deployed at site first for operations to start. During operations techniques such as volumetric estimations can be used for quantity survey that can also be used for reconciliation purposes.
Our deliverables in a survey and mapping project includes:
Topographical Survey
Volumetric Estimation / Physical Verification
LiDAR Mapping
Digitization of Mining Data
Infrastructure Planning & Mapping
Settlement Mapping
Dump Height & Slope Measurement
Environmental Impact Assessment
Inspection & Monitoring
Occupational health and safety, environment and ecological regulations and forest conservation related compliances are a challenge to navigate successfully while running a huge mine development project.
Crores of money have to be spent upfront before a truckload of useful material is mined. Lesoko helps project owners navigate these inspection and monitoring challenges.
Want to ensure a site is clear of human encumbrance during blasting operations? Our drones can help. Need to check the stability of slopes after excavation so that they would not slide? Our aerial photographic survey can help.
Too much dust coming out of blasting and mining activity? Our solutions can help you monitor Ambient Air Quality Index at such sites and provide relief in a timely manner if the Air Quality Index goes out of bounds.
Monitor all your assets deployed at site, geo-tag stockpiles and estimate volume of earth excavated/mined everyday using our solutions. Optimize access routes so that the path taken is the shortest while also optimize the slopes so that delivery trucks carry optimal but also finalize the road slopes so that vehicles can navigate the terrain easily.
Our outputs include:
Mines & Quarry Monitoring
Geo-tagging of Stockpiles
Ambient Air Quality Monitoring & Sampling
Surveillance
Haul Road Optimization
Asset Inspection
Blasting Zone Safety Monitoring
Subsidence Monitoring
Project Monitoring
Want live and remote monitoring of your mining project site from your office? Lesoko’s drones can aid in solving this problem.
Track project completion and perform quantity survey for volume of earth excavated.
You can even track how much of unprocessed mineral has been excavated and how much of raw earth has been excavated over a set period of time.
Monitor truck movement and alternate dump sites also using drones. You can also observe if the implementation of standard and safe construction and mining practices is effective or not.
Our advanced digital terrain models can be used to precisely calculate the volume of earth excavated. In case there any obstacles such as landslides, collapse of approach roads, etc, these can be informed to alert truck drivers at site so that they can be more cautious.
Our project team can be stationed at your mining project and can provide you fast and accurate reports. Some of our deliverables during project monitoring include:
Project Progress Monitoring
Monthly Stockpile Estimation
Implementation of SOPs
Transmission Line Tower Inspection
Transmission towers are critical structures that need to be inspected regularly so that its stability, integrity are maintained.
Drone inspection can effectively replace manual inspection as drones can easily reach the top of the towers without any installing any scaffolding. It is faster, safer and much more reliable than human inspection and can also be monitored real time for instant response formulations.
A huge advantage is that even live towers can be inspected which practically means zero operational downtime which is unimaginable in case of manual inspections. Our thermal and RGB imaging cameras can even inspect small components such as conductors and insulators which are used in a transmission tower.
Hotspots and faulty components, loose connections can be performed after visual examination by means of live photos. Vegetation clearances needed at places that are currently not easily accessible now can be taken up at specific towers.
A transmission tower inspection done by our drones can give you the following:
Components Inspection
Span inspection
Route Alignment Survey
Faced delays while constructing and erecting transmission towers before? Don’t make the mistake once again.
Consider Lesoko’s route alignment survey. Land acquisition is always fraught with challenges and when it comes to high voltage transmission towers. Private owners are often hesitant to give up their land or even lease it out.
Transmission towers pass through remote areas and much of it may be Poramboke or Government owned land as well. Some of these areas may also be illegally encroached by private individuals and entities.
So, it is very important to ensure that your planned alignment is not only short, technically feasible but also clear of any legal hurdles arising from property ownership as well.
Any levelling or clearance needed at the planned location of these towers needs to be carried out first. Our GPS and GIS enabled surveys can not only map the geographic terrain but also provide precise latitude and longitudes of the location so that we can optimize the costs for access paths / roads needed during construction and the length of the conductor wires required.
Our alignment survey gives you the following information:
Topographical Survey
Route identification
Unauthorized Construction & Encroachment Analysis
Span inspection
LiDAR Survey
Want total safety and protect your transmission project assets? Lesoko’s LiDAR based survey solutions help you measure accurately all the clearances between the towers and in between the phase-phase and phase-ground conductor wires.
Weather conditions make these conductors wires expand/contract and sometimes sag as well. This is a critical safety requirement because if the threshold clearances are not met, it can cause unsafe operations and result in sparks/fires due to electric arcs. Span measurements between towers, clearances from nearby structures and buildings can also be exactly measured.
LiDAR in combination of GIS can provide accurate 3D maps that will capture the location, the geographic terrain of all the transmission assets. Our photographic survey can also map and identify components such as jumpers, dampers and insulators, etc and perform a quantity survey.
This data can be directly integrated into your inventory/fixed assets register which can be used for planning, bookkeeping and procurement purposes.
Some of the measurements that can be made with a LiDAR Survey include:
Phase to phase measurements
Phase to ground measurements
LiDAR Survey & Mapping
Harsh Geographic Terrain, Long winding stretches impede manual inspection of railway tracks and lines.
Lesoko’s Light Detection and Ranging based drones can give you very high precision, 3D and realistic maps of railway lines and associated infrastructure.
The imagery is very useful in identifying track misalignment, vegetation encroachment and infrastructure assessment.
Can be used to identify critical defects and sabotage as well. The data can also be monitored live, and any untoward incidents can be prevented before they occur, possibly saving hundreds of lives.
That’s preventive maintenance in a fast, reliable and safe way with Lesoko!
Project Progress Monitoring
Finding it difficult to track progress of works in your transmission project difficult? Here’s how you can leverage Lesoko’s drone-based progress monitoring solution.
No matter, how far apart your tower locations are, our drones can fly over these sites and gather work completion data making collation and compilation of reports easier and faster.
Track how many foundations are laid, how much % of tower structures are installed, how many kms of cable laid, etc at a frequency that you fix – daily or weekly.
Additionally, define which milestones you want to track and our project team at sites can help coordinate and generate these reports with precision.
These can be customized for dissemination to key stakeholders as well. We provide the following while tracking project progress:
Construction Milestone Tracking
Foundation & Tower Erection Updates
Overhead Equipment Inspection
High Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) metrics impacting the performance of your maintenance teams?
Our Specialized drones with thermal and optical imaging capabilities can help inspect overhead high voltage power supply lines that run across railway tracks. These are areas in which access to humans are not easily available.
We can scan overhead components such as insulators, conductors and masts for corrosion, defects and overheating.
The images can also be used to inspect individual components such as mast portals and fittings, foundations, drop arms, suspension clamps, counterweights, stay adjusts and so on.
Once identified, these components can be easily repaired and replaced if needed, keeping your systems running in top-notch condition.
Catenary Wire Inspection
Worried about unforeseen defects cropping up in the Catenary Wire?
That’s a railway maintenance engineer’s worst nightmare.
Our drone powered survey and inspection systems can detect and even classify defects in the Catenary wire such as damage due to wear and tear, lightning strikes, cross sectional area reduction due to various reasons, sag, misalignment etc.
Identifying and fixing defects are paramount to ensure that there are no downtimes and passenger safety is not compromised.
Our analytics-based solutions can help you pinpoint the exact location, type of defect and provide you with a live photograph so that your maintenance engineers can fix it as soon as possible.