Your lighting work deserves to be seen from every angle. Including from above. Thermal inspection. Night aerials. Infrastructure mapping.
The lighting industry is one of the most visual industries in the world. Your work deserves to be seen — from every angle. Including from above. I've flown above stadium lighting installations at night that looked like jewels from 400 feet. I've mapped highway lighting corridors that revealed maintenance gaps invisible from the ground. I've used thermal imaging to find failing LED drivers on architectural lighting systems that saved facility managers tens of thousands in emergency replacement.
Lighting contractors face a documentation challenge that nobody talks about: how do you show a client the scope of a project across 50 acres of parking lot, 3 miles of highway, or the facade of a 40-story building? Ground-level photography captures fragments. Aerial photography captures the complete picture — the full scope of your installation, the visual consistency of your design, and the dramatic impact that only reveals itself from above.
Thermal inspection is the other half of our lighting services — and it's transforming how the industry handles quality control and preventive maintenance. Every electrical installation generates heat. Failing components generate more. Our FLIR thermal cameras identify hot spots in lighting panels, distribution boxes, and fixture connections before they become failures. We find the problems that ground inspection misses — before they become outages, before they become liability events.
Night aerial photography is a specialty we've developed for architectural lighting designers and municipal lighting projects where the work only truly reveals itself after dark. The images we produce — city skylines with new LED retrofits glowing, sports complexes lit for night play, highway corridors illuminated — these are portfolio pieces that win the next project before the pitch is even made.
"A lighting designer once told me that 90% of their best work is invisible from the street. The full design intent only makes sense from above. That's what we capture — the complete vision, the intended experience, the totality of what you created. From the only angle that shows all of it."
Identify failing drivers, hot connections, overloaded circuits, and thermal anomalies in your lighting infrastructure before they cause outages or safety events. We fly thermal inspection missions over commercial and industrial lighting systems — delivering heat maps with identified anomalies, severity ratings, and prioritized repair recommendations. Most clients find issues they didn't know existed. Every client prevents at least one costly failure.
The most stunning portfolio photography available to any lighting designer or contractor — your installed work photographed from above at night, when the full visual impact of your design is realized. We produce night aerial packages for architectural facade lighting, stadium projects, smart city LED retrofits, and landscape installations. These images don't just document your work. They market your expertise to every prospect who sees them.
Complete aerial mapping of lighting infrastructure for municipalities, highway departments, and facility managers. Georeferenced fixture inventories with condition ratings. Pole location mapping for maintenance planning. Coverage analysis for dark-spot identification. We produce lighting infrastructure maps that support capital planning, energy efficiency analysis, and maintenance budgeting at a resolution and accuracy that ground-based surveys cannot achieve.
The Zenmuse H30T payload transforms the Matrice 350 RTK into the most capable lighting inspection platform available. The H30T combines a high-resolution thermal sensor (640×512, sensitivity ≤0.1°C) with a full RGB camera, allowing simultaneous visual and thermal capture in a single pass. For night aerial photography, the H30T's optical system captures stunning visual imagery in low-light conditions that produces the dramatic nighttime aerial content lighting designers use to build their portfolios and win their next projects.
We retrofit municipal street lighting across 14 city contracts annually. Remington Drones now handles our pre-inspection and post-installation documentation on every project. Their thermal imaging identified 340 failing fixtures on a city contract that our ground team had missed — and the city credited those findings toward our next project budget. Their night aerials of our completed installations have won us three new municipal contracts that cited our documentation quality in the award letters.
From thermal inspection to night aerial showcases, we make sure your lighting installations are seen, protected, and celebrated from every angle.