{"id":82135,"date":"2025-02-14T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/?p=82135"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T08:34:28","slug":"drones-for-cleaning-solar-panels-mgu-showcases-new-possibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/drones-for-cleaning-solar-panels-mgu-showcases-new-possibilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones for Cleaning Solar Panels: MGU Showcases New Possibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-82136 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250214-WA0012-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1029\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250214-WA0012-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250214-WA0012-768x369.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250214-WA0012.jpg 867w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1029px) 100vw, 1029px\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mahatma Gandhi University showcased new possibilities in drone technology to a group trained in drone operations. A workshop organised by the School of Environmental Sciences demonstrated how drones can be used to clean high-altitude solar panels and glass surfaces of buildings.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Medium-category drones are used for this purpose. The cleaning process is carried out by spraying water forcefully from a tank attached to the drone. With the increasing use of solar panels, expertise in this field can lead to promising opportunities, said Dr K.R. Baiju, Dean of the School of Environmental Sciences.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The workshop, conducted in collaboration with Asia Soft Pvt. Ltd. and Next Leap Aeronautics, also highlighted how drones can be used to deliver essential supplies to disaster-affected areas. A total of 75 participants from various sectors attended the session.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr V.P. Silas, Dr Ebin Varghese, Asia Soft representative S. Nishad, and Next Leap Aeronautics representative Sundarapandian addressed the gathering.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahatma Gandhi University showcased new possibilities in drone technology to a group trained in drone operations. A workshop organised by the School of Environmental Sciences demonstrated how drones can be used to clean high-altitude solar panels and glass surfaces of buildings. \u00a0 Medium-category drones are used for this purpose. The cleaning process is carried out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82144,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82135\/revisions\/82144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgu.ac.in\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}