Drone Projects

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Three minutes on what we actually do.

Short explainers, no jargon. If you'd rather talk it through, speak to the boss on 0439 999 222.

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01 · Inspections · 1:10

A roof inspection, start to finish

Site access, flight plan, capture, AI defect detection, and the report in your inbox — usually within days, not weeks.

02 · Thermal · 0:55

What a thermal pass reveals

Hot spots in solar arrays, moisture under membranes, failing connections — the faults you cannot see in daylight.

03 · Software · 1:20

How DOTAS measures decline

Same asset, repeat captures, one baseline. DOTAS aligns every pass and reports the rate of change, not just today's condition.

Scope of services

One operator, one certificate, every job on the asset.

From a single residential roof to a rail corridor or a high-rise facade. Based in Queensland, mobilised Australia-wide.

S01

Aerial photography

High-resolution stills for marketing, progress records, development applications and pre-purchase.

S02

Aerial videography

Cinematic and technical video, from property walkthroughs to construction time-lapse and site inductions.

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Surveys & mapping

Orthomosaics, contours, volumetrics and 3D models with RTK positioning to 2 mm accuracy.

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Roof inspections

Hail, storm and defect assessment with facet areas, perimeter lengths and annotated damage points.

S05

Building inspections

Facades, gutters, parapets and hard-to-reach elevations — without scaffold, EWP or rope access.

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Thermal inspections

Infrared imaging of solar PV, switchboards, membranes and insulation to find faults under load.

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Asset degradation reporting

Repeat-capture programs powered by DOTAS. Baseline once, then measure the trend every cycle.

S08

Graffiti removal

Laser and aerial removal from high walls, silos, bridges and signage — no lift hire, no traffic management. See laser cleaning.

S09

High-pressure drone washing

Roofs, cladding, solar arrays and awnings cleaned from the air. Faster, safer and cheaper than access equipment.

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Custom drone software

We build the tooling ourselves — capture apps, detection models and reporting engines, tuned to your asset class.

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Insurance & claims support

Evidence-grade documentation with geotagged imagery, damage counts and repair recommendations.

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Australia-wide mobilisation

Queensland is home. We deploy interstate for portfolio programs, catastrophe response and infrastructure work.

New · Proprietary · Built in Australia

DOTAS — Damage Over Time Analysis Software

Repeat captures. One fixed baseline. A measured rate of decline.

Every inspection you have ever commissioned answered one question: what does this asset look like today? DOTAS answers the one that actually drives budget — how fast is it getting worse, and when does it cross the line?

DOTAS ingests repeat captures of the same asset, spatially aligns them to a fixed baseline, and reports change per element over time. It is our own software, developed in-house, and it produces reporting that has not existed in this industry before.

DOTAS · Time delta model

Asset Precast facade — 24 panel elevation

Capture 01 / 05

Degradation index 4%

Elements flagged 1/ 24

Rate of change 0.0% / yr

Drag to move through the capture history Elapsed 0 months

Baseline+12 mo+24 mo+36 mo+48 mo

Illustrative model. Figures shown are sample data used to demonstrate how DOTAS reports change — not results from a real client asset.

Baseline once, compare forever

Every subsequent flight is registered back to the original capture, so a 3 mm crack extension in year three is measured against year one — not re-estimated by eye.

Change per element, not per photo

DOTAS tracks the individual panel, sheet, weld, blade or sleeper. You get a defect history for each element, and a portfolio roll-up above it.

Forecasting, not just findings

With enough captures the model projects when an element crosses your intervention threshold, which turns reactive maintenance into a planned budget line.

Asset classes DOTAS reports on

High-rise buildings

Electrical infrastructure

Rail infrastructure

Wind turbines

Bridges & civil

Environmental monitoring

Solar farms

Mining & resources

High-risk assets · Safety in delivery

The assets most worth inspecting are the ones most dangerous to reach.

High-rise facades, industrial roofs, silos, bridges, transmission structures, rail corridors, wind turbines, solar farms. These are exactly the assets that need a condition report or an ongoing DOTAS program — and exactly the assets that traditionally put a person in a harness, on a rope, in a boom lift or on a roof edge to get one.

A drone removes that exposure entirely. Nobody goes to height. The asset stays in service. The report comes back with more coverage than a person could physically reach, and every frame is geotagged so you can prove where it came from.

24workers

died from falls from a height in Australian workplaces in 2024. Falls were the second-largest cause of worker fatalities, behind vehicle incidents.

~50per cent

of fatal falls involve heights of three metres or less. A single-storey roof is not a low-risk inspection.

Source: Safe Work Australia, Key WHS Statistics

Consideration	Traditional access	Drone inspection
Working at heights	Personnel on the roof, rope or platform. Fall exposure on every visit.	Nobody leaves the ground. Fall risk removed rather than controlled.
Access equipment	Scaffold, EWP or rope rigging. Erecting and dismantling is itself high-risk work.	No equipment to install. Nothing to erect, hire, certify or take down.
Asset downtime	Live plant, rail lines or switchyards often need isolation or a possession.	Captured while the asset stays operational, from a safe standoff.
Time on site	Days for setup, permits, inductions and access before inspection begins.	Hours. Setup is a flight plan and a launch point.
Coverage	Limited to where a person can safely stand or be suspended.	Full elevation, including overhangs, parapets and faces no rope reaches.
Repeat monitoring	Every cycle re-exposes workers and re-hires access equipment.	Every cycle repeats the same flight path with zero exposure.
Evidence trail	Notes, hand-held photos, variable between inspectors.	Geotagged imagery, consistent altitudes, an auditable capture record.

Condition reports on assets you can't safely reach

Where the risk assessment for a manual inspection is the reason it keeps getting deferred, a drone gets you the report without the paperwork, the permit and the exposure.

DOTAS programs compound the benefit

A degradation program means returning to the same asset again and again. With traditional access, each return is a fresh mobilisation and a fresh risk. With RTK-repeatable flight paths, it is the same safe pass every time.

Eliminate, don't just control

The WHS hierarchy of controls puts elimination above every other measure. Removing the need to work at height is elimination — not a harness, a permit or a hope that the control holds.

Custom drone software

We are an inspection company that writes its own code.

Most drone operators buy a platform and work within its limits. We build ours — the capture apps, the AI detection models and the reporting engines. That is why our reports look the way they do, why we can turn them around in days rather than weeks, and why we can shape a capture-to-report pipeline around an asset class nobody has tooled for yet.

Built in-house, across every service we deliver

Our software runs behind building inspections, building degradation reporting, thermal reporting, and roof and solar inspections. Each one has its own detection model, its own defect taxonomy and its own report structure, because a cracked precast panel, a delaminating membrane and a hot cell in a PV string are not the same problem and should not be reported as though they were.

Everything is trained on Australian assets, captured by our own pilots, under Australian conditions. When a client needs something our tooling does not yet cover, we build it rather than telling them it cannot be done.

Discuss a custom build

What we build Capture apps, AI detection models, reporting engines Applied to Building inspections · Building degradation reporting · Thermal reporting · Roof inspections · Solar inspections Flagship product DOTAS — Damage Over Time Analysis Software Ownership Proprietary. Developed and owned by Drone Projects Pty Ltd.

Inside a report

Snippets from real deliverables.

Short extracts only — enough to show the standard, with all client and property details removed. Ask us for a full sample pack and we'll send one across.

Extract from a roof inspection report showing an aerial image with AI-detected hail impacts marked A to D — **Geotagged detection frames**
Every damage point is boxed, lettered and tied to the coordinates of the frame it was found in.

Extract showing paired damage close-ups with written findings and recommended solutions — **Finding plus recommendation**
Each detection gets a close-up crop, a plain-English finding and a recommended remedy — not just a photo dump.

Extract showing a colour-coded roof perimeter diagram with edge lengths in metres — **Perimeter & area take-off**
Ridge, hip, valley, gutter and barge measured and colour-coded for quoting.

Extract of an infrared image of a solar array showing multiple bright hot spots across individual cells — **Infrared anomaly capture**
Cell-level hot spots under operational load — invisible in a normal photograph.

Extract showing solar panels numbered with damage locations circled in red — **Panel-by-panel correlation**
Thermal anomalies matched back to numbered panels and confirmed visual damage.

Extracts are cropped from delivered reports. Client names, property addresses, coordinates and reference numbers have been excluded. Full reports are released only to the commissioning client.

The group

One company. Three specialist divisions.

Drone Projects Pty Ltd holds the certificate, the software and the fleet. Each division carries the brand its customers know.

Parent · Technology & aerial services

Photography, videography, survey and mapping, plus all custom software development including DOTAS. The engineering and flight operations centre of the group.

Photography
Videography
Survey
Software
DOTAS

Division · Inspection & reporting

Australian Roof Inspections

Our inspection brand for roofs, buildings and thermal work, and the name on the majority of our 2,400+ delivered reports. Trusted by builders, insurers and asset managers.

Roof
Building
Thermal
Claims
Degradation

Division · Aerial cleaning

The Drone Wash Co

High-pressure washing and graffiti removal delivered from the air. Includes laser cleaning for heritage and sensitive substrates. Cleans surfaces that would otherwise need scaffold, EWP or rope access.

Roof washing
Cladding
Solar arrays
Graffiti removal
Laser cleaning

The Drone Wash Co · Precision cleaning technology

Laser graffiti removal.

Our laser graffiti removal technology provides a modern, environmentally responsible solution for removing graffiti from a wide range of building surfaces. Unlike traditional methods that rely on chemicals, sandblasting or high-pressure washing, laser cleaning uses concentrated pulses of light to selectively remove unwanted paint while minimising impact on the underlying surface.

Ablation pass · chemical-free Illustrative diagram

How it works

The laser directs controlled pulses of light onto the graffiti coating. The paint absorbs the laser energy, causing it to rapidly break down and separate from the surface beneath. The removed material is converted into fine particles and vapour, which can be safely extracted using specialised dust collection systems where required.

Because the process is highly targeted, surrounding areas remain largely unaffected, making laser cleaning suitable for delicate architectural finishes and heritage applications when performed correctly.

Benefits

Chemical-free cleaning process
Minimal water consumption
Non-abrasive compared with sandblasting
Reduced waste generation
High precision for detailed or sensitive surfaces
Suitable for difficult-to-access locations when integrated with advanced access solutions
Can assist in preserving the appearance of valuable building materials

Suitable substrates

Subject to testing and appropriate laser selection, laser cleaning may be suitable for:

Natural stoneConcreteBrickworkMasonry GraniteMarbleSandstoneSteel Stainless steelAluminiumCertain coated metal surfaces

Environmentally responsible

Laser cleaning significantly reduces the need for chemical solvents and minimises water usage, making it an environmentally conscious alternative for many graffiti removal applications.

Our approach

Every project begins with an assessment of the graffiti, coating type and substrate to determine the safest and most effective removal method. Where laser cleaning is appropriate, we aim to restore surfaces while minimising the risk of damage to the underlying material.

Each substrate should be assessed individually to determine the most appropriate cleaning method and laser settings. Where laser cleaning is not the right fit, we will say so and recommend high-pressure washing or another method instead.

How an engagement runs

Four steps, in this order, every time.

STEP 01

Scope & approvals

We confirm the asset, access, airspace and any CASA approvals needed, then lock a flight window with your site contact.

STEP 02

Capture

A certified pilot flies a planned grid. RGB, thermal and RTK positioning as the job requires, with every frame geotagged.

STEP 03

Detect & measure

Our software processes the capture, flags defects, and — where a baseline exists — runs the DOTAS time comparison.

STEP 04

Report

You receive an annotated report with findings, measurements, recommendations and the source imagery behind every claim.

Why clients stay

Certified, insured, and accountable for the work.

Drone Projects Pty Ltd has operated since 28 April 2022. In that time we have delivered over 2,400 roof reports and more than 480 thermal reports for builders, insurers, strata managers and asset owners.

CASA ReOC.7946

We hold a Remote Operator Certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority. Every flight is conducted by a certified pilot under our operations manual.

Guaranteed work

We guarantee every job we deliver. If a report misses something we should have caught, we return to the asset and correct it at our cost.

Turnaround you can plan around

Because detection and report assembly are automated in our own software, standard reports come back in days. Urgent make-safe assessments come back faster.

Proven delivery

Who we work for.

We operate as a specialist inspection and technology partner to construction groups, insurance repair builders, facilities maintenance providers and electrical contractors. A selection of the organisations we have delivered work for:

Programmed Staffing, facility management
& maintenance · National programmed.com.au

Duncon Electrical Electrical, solar & compliance
contracting · QLD

Profile Build Group Building & construction

KBA Group Insurance repairs & facilities
maintenance · National kbagroup.com.au

Project case studies are available on request. Site addresses, client references and report contents are not published — deliverables are released only to the commissioning party.

Get started

Tell us about the asset.

Send through the location and what you need to know about it. We'll come back with scope, price and the first available flight window.

Phone0439 999 222 Emailinfo@droneprojects.com.au

PostalPO Box 180
Belgian Gardens QLD 4810

CoverageQueensland based · Australia wide

EntityDrone Projects Pty Ltd · ABN 86 659 032 363