GameChange Solar, a global energy infrastructure company, in collaboration with Raptor Maps, a robotics inspection and analytics platform for the solar industry, today introduced a first-of-its-kind tracker monitoring system integrated with autonomous robotic inspection.
The joint offering pairs GameChange Solar’s GeniusVision tracker monitoring software with Raptor Maps’ Sentry robotic inspection platform, giving asset owners a continuous feedback loop between tracker performance and on-site inspection data and shortening the time from signal to action.
For O&M teams, the offering replaces manual preventative maintenance inspection programs with autonomous coverage and delivers prioritized, targeted insights that drive corrective action more efficiently than conventional inspection methods. GeniusVision continuously monitors tracker health and performance across a solar site, flagging any issues and remotely deploying Sentry to collect targeted inspection data, all without dispatching a technician.
The collected data feeds directly back into GeniusVision, refining the algorithms to better fit site conditions and improve tracker performance and stow behavior. This feedback loop creates a self-improving system: better tracker intelligence drives more precise inspections, and more precise inspections make the tracker smarter.
“GameChange has always taken a long view on the value we deliver to asset owners,” says Phillip Vyhanek, CEO of GameChange Solar. “By working with the solar industry’s most deployed robotic inspection platform to combine Sentry’s capabilities with GeniusVision, we’re giving owners a more complete picture of tracker health and giving our teams the feedback needed to continue improving our products. We’re excited to extend our services, value, and relationships with clients throughout the entire project lifecycle.”
“Utility-scale solar is essential to power our future, and with the build-out of new data centers, reliability is more important than ever,” says Nikhil Vadhavkar, CEO of Raptor Maps. “What we’ve built with GameChange Solar is an elegant solution to a major problem in these vast, hard-to-access regions. The tracker signals a need, Sentry goes and gets the data, and that data drives the actions necessary to mitigate losses. This closed-loop automation drastically shortens the time between what’s detected and actions taken, delivering a win for the owner and their O&M”.
The integrated platform supports a wide range of operational needs, augmenting O&M workflows by replacing routine manual inspections with scheduled autonomous flights and enabling rapid response to anomalies detected by GeniusVision. And after severe weather, Sentry conducts site sweeps to identify storm damage as soon as conditions allow. It also supports the construction phase through quality verification and installation support, ensuring that site quality meets the Golden Row standard.
Following recent expansions into transformer manufacturing and electrical balance-of-systems, this integration extends GameChange Solar’s and Raptor Maps’ ability to deliver value across the full lifecycle of a solar project.
