Custom Aerospace Solutions for Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation
Persimia is a trusted supplier of aerospace systems and analysis tools to some of the world's leading renewable energy developers and wildlife consultancies. From customized drones to unique software analysis tools, it focuses on accuracy, reliability, and creative problem solving. Its highly trained engineering staff has extensive experience developing custom hardware and software solutions for clients in the aerospace and energy industries.
Persimia provides advanced consulting services across multiple engineering domains including flight dynamics, controls, aerodynamics, and statistics. The practice develops complex multi-physics models that integrate flight dynamic simulation, controls engineering, and risk analysis to address unique energy and conservation challenges.
Persimia designs specialized, turn-key unmanned aircraft with custom sensors, data processing capabilities, and command and control systems. The team partners with wildlife consultancies and renewable energy developers to create bespoke platforms that seamlessly integrate into existing operations.
Persimia pioneers remote inspection technology with TurbInsight, a specialized drone developed for contact-based non-destructive testing of large infrastructure like offshore wind turbine blades. The vehicle utilizes suction docking and advanced onboard sensors to perform remote inspections safely.
Persimia creates custom simulation tools and software modules to model environmental and community impacts of renewable energy plants. Its solutions enable accurate simulation of noise, shadow flicker, zone of visual impact, and wildlife risks.
Renewable Energy · Wind · Environmental & Remediation · Aerospace · Software
Wind · Client: US Department of Energy
Persimia designed and developed TurbInsight, the world's first drone equipped with contact-based non-destructive testing (NDT) capability, funded by a US Department of Energy grant. The vehicle takes off, attaches to a wind turbine blade via a suction anchor, folds down to perform area inspections using ultrasound or microwave payloads, and lands autonomously.
Midwestern United States · Environmental & Remediation · 2023
Collaborating with a leading North American wildlife consultancy, Persimia designed a custom NDAA-compliant autonomous drone for bat surveys at wind farms. The vehicle features a reduced acoustic signature to allow its onboard microphone to detect bat echolocation, and carries an acoustic monitor alongside infrared and visual cameras, developed from concept to completion in six months.
Wind · 2024 · Client: WindPlanner
Persimia integrated its ISO-9613-2 noise and shadow flicker simulation software into WindPlanner, a leading software suite for wind farm planning, to assist energy developers in modeling environmental and community impacts of renewable energy projects.
Renewable Energy · 2024 · Client: Electric Power Research Institute
Persimia partnered with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to develop and deploy a website platform for modeling bat fatality risks at wind farms, aiding the energy industry in understanding environmental impacts.