Component yard scan
Daily count and visual condition check of blades, nacelles, towers, and transition pieces in staging. Theft, damage, and misplacement flagged within hours, not weeks.
Baltic offshore wind,
monitored from shore.
Estonia is becoming the Baltic Sea's offshore-wind staging hub. Aerion's Paldiski node sits next to the OSW construction quay, delivering continuous component-yard oversight, vessel-loading documentation, and post-installation asset support, all without the helicopter cost line.
Daily yard scan of blades, nacelles, and towers. Loading-op orthomosaics for insurance and dispute resolution. Quayside structural inspection. Quarterly thermal of stored components. Audit-ready EU records.
310m
Paldiski OSW quay length
10ha
Component staging back-area
24/7
Continuous yard oversight
APPROACH
Continuous oversight of high-value OSW logistics, at port scale.
A single 13-15 MW turbine blade is 100+ m of carbon-glass composite worth €1-2M. A staged set of components for one Baltic OSW project is hundreds of millions of euros sitting on a quay for weeks at a time. Aerion's Paldiski node delivers daily yard scans, weekly orthomosaics, loading-event documentation, and quayside structural inspection. That is the visibility OSW developers, EPC contractors, and insurers all need but rarely budget for.
MISSION CATALOG
Eight recurring missions for OSW construction-port and O&M operations.
Yard photogrammetry & orthomosaic
Weekly 3D capture of the staging area for stockpile volumetrics, layout-change detection, and stakeholder reporting. Delivered through the customer portal in standard GIS formats.
Vessel loading documentation
Orthomosaic before, during, and after every loading op. Insurance-grade evidence for damage claims, dispute resolution, and stowage verification.
Yard perimeter & theft deterrence
Scheduled patrols of fence line and back-area. Person and vehicle classification with timestamped evidence. Thermal at night.
Crane lift & loadout safety oversight
Live operator-tasked loiter during heavy lifts and component transfers. Exclusion-zone monitoring (workers under suspended load) with alert to lift supervisor. Requires Private Network tier for operator-tasked flight.
Quayside structural inspection
Thermal + visual of quay structure: concrete spalling, expansion-joint integrity, bollard tilt, fender-pad damage. Early warning of damage that costs millions to repair when missed.
Stored-component thermal sweep
Long-stored nacelles and transformers checked for moisture ingress, electrical-cabinet hot spots, lightning damage. Pre-installation condition baseline.
Weather window decision support
Wind, sea, and visibility observation feeding loading-op go/no-go calls. Combined with regional forecast to support marine-window planning.
DEPLOYMENT TIER
Two ways onto the network.
Hybrid
Anchor: host the node
For Port of Tallinn, EPC contractors, and OSW developers anchoring long-term Paldiski operations. Host the Aerion node at your quayside facility, get daytime priority, dedicated night-window coverage, and first-call dispatch. The Aerion lead product for OSW staging.
Dedicated
Private network
For high-tempo construction windows requiring operator-tasked loiter during heavy lifts, custom mission profiles, and sub-2-minute alarm response. Deployment 8-12 weeks. Dedicated drone, exclusive use.
WHAT WE DETECT
Continuous detection across the OSW logistics envelope.
DETECTION · 01
Component inventory tracker
AI counts blades, nacelles, towers, and transition pieces. Cross-references against project manifest. Flags missing, mis-stowed, or unbooked units.
DETECTION · 02
Component condition AI
Visual change detection across stored components: surface damage, lightning strike marks, transport-handling marks, packaging integrity.
DETECTION · 03
Stockpile volumetrics
Photogrammetric height and volume measurement of aggregate, ballast, and bulk material stockpiles. Tonnage reconciliation against weighbridge.
DETECTION · 04
Loading-op deviation flagger
Before/after comparison of loading orthomosaics. Identifies missing fastenings, stowage anomalies, and dunnage discrepancies vs the planned stowage diagram.
DETECTION · 05
Crane exclusion-zone watcher (Private tier)
Person and vehicle classification inside crane-lift exclusion zones. Real-time alert with thumbnail and last-known track. Lift supervisor notified within seconds.
DETECTION · 06
Quay structure change detection
Compares current quay condition against baseline: concrete cracks, bollard tilt, fender displacement, scour around piles. Surfaces deterioration trends before they become repair-grade damage.
DETECTION · 07
Storage-area thermal anomaly
Nacelle electrical-cabinet thermal anomalies, transformer hot spots, moisture-ingress signatures in stored components. Pre-installation health flagging.
DETECTION · 08
Compliance & insurance evidence
GPS-timestamped, asset-linked records meeting EU industrial inspection regulations and marine cargo insurance evidentiary standards. Audit-ready by default.
INTEGRATION STACK
Drops into the systems your construction-port and project ops already run.
CAPABILITY
What each node delivers
- 10 km service radius per node
- Continuous operations through Nordic winters (−30 °C)
- Weather-rated for outdoor deployment
- Multi-sensor capture: visual, thermal, photogrammetry
- BVLOS-ready under EU specific category
- Real-time AI flagging on every flight
- EU data residency, GDPR, NIS2
INTEGRATES WITH
Your operations stack
- Project ERP (Primavera, SAP)
- EPC project portals
- Marine cargo insurance evidence systems
- Port community systems and AIS
- VMS for terminal SOC
- Custom APIs and webhooks
REGULATORY EDGE
Operating from inside the EU's only U-space sandbox.
Tartu, Estonia operates the EU's only fully-operational U-space regulatory sandbox. Aerion operates inside this framework, compressing BVLOS approval cycles that take 12-24 months elsewhere in Europe to weeks for our customers. LUC application is underway (target 2027 H2). Once granted, Aerion self-certifies mission profiles within privileges, removing per-mission authorization friction for OSW project tempo.
Discuss your OSW project.
We're accepting design partners and pilot customers for 2026-2027 deployments. Tell us about your construction-port operation, project tempo, or O&M support requirement.
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