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Above Surveying Ltd

Solar drone inspection & digital software solutions for Solar PV - Above

Above provides solar PV drone inspection and software solutions. Driven by high-quality drone data we help design, build and manage excellent solar plants.

CRN
08790960
Founded
2013
Age
12

Overview

Legal name
ABOVE SURVEYING LTD
Region
East of England
Registered address
BLOCK G, KNOWLEDGE GATEWAY
NESFIELD ROAD
COLCHESTER
ENGLAND
CO4 3ZL
Insolvency history
No

Latest accounts

Financial period: 1 Jan 2024 to 31 Dec 2024

FILLETEDACCOUNTS
Turnover
Unknown
Profit / Loss
Unknown
Employees
76

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
30 Sep
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

05 Jul
2026

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

31 Dec
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

21 Jun
2025

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

12 Oct
2024

Termination Director Company With Name Termination Date

Officers

TM01 | Transaction MzQzODczNDM4NmFkaXF6a2N4 | Paper/PDF filed

Published 13 Oct 2024 05:58

26 Nov
2013

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

10 awards
First funded
2017
Funded years
2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025
Age at first award
3 years

Projects

2025 Innovation Loans Lead participant

Solar Vision AI - Computer vision models to interpret high-volume, high-frequency solar plant image data for rapid reporting and actionable insights

10 Nov 2025 to 10 Nov 2027

Awarded
£1,671,079
Total cost £1,671,079

**Solar Vision AI: Transforming Solar Farm Monitoring with Advanced Computer Vision for Instant Insights** At Above, we're revolutionizing solar farm monitoring with Solar Vision AI, a cutting-edge computer vision solution designed to interpret high-volume, high-frequency image data with speed and precision. As the industry shifts from traditional, manual...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Outdoor Luminescence and Infrared Imaging of Photovoltaic Systems (Multispectral)

1 Apr 2024 to 31 Mar 2027

Awarded
£182,643
Total cost £304,405
2024 EU-Funded Lead participant

SUPERNOVA

1 Apr 2024 to 30 Sep 2027

Awarded
£164,907
Total cost £164,907

SUPERNOVA will embrace existing proven successful concepts (breaking silos and innovating in sector where R&D&I are usually not a common target) and will integrate them with further disruptive key elements: - O&M and grid friendly design of PV plants thanks to advanced solutions in software for the early design and engineering phase to go beyond yield max...

2024 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Aerial Electroluminescence Inspections (AELI)

1 Mar 2024 to 28 Feb 2026

Awarded
£196,771
Total cost £281,101

**Project goal:** The AELI (Aerial Electroluminescence Inspections) project will create a new field solar module inspections service that will greatly increase the depth of knowledge of solar assets. AELI will bring high-volume EL inspections onsite, enabling us to track module condition from factory to field. The service will be faster to implement than ...

2023 EU-Funded Lead participant

Symbiosyst

1 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2026

Awarded
£144,640
Total cost £206,629

no public description

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

FollowPV - Developing autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles with spatial awareness for improved image quality from solar farm inspections

1 Apr 2021 to 31 Mar 2022

Awarded
£173,963
Total cost £248,519

The FollowPV project plans to develop a 'self-driving' (semi-automated) drone system for inspecting solar farms. Our device will allow a drone to follow rows of solar panels in the same way that a 'self-driving' car is able to keep in lane. However, unlike a car, a drone is not connected to the road by wheels. Therefore, our device must also enable the dr...

2019 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

SolarGain - Using pattern recognition and AI to identify thermal defects and resulting power loss in solar farm performance

1 Jun 2019 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
£229,950
Total cost £328,500

"Above Surveying uses drones, thermographic and visual cameras and automation to survey and identify under performing solar panels in utility scale solar farms. Using drones and automation ensures the data that is produced is consistent across all types of solar assets and across the seasons of the year which makes the data even more valuable for the cust...

2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Essex and Above Surveying Limited

1 Jun 2019 to 31 May 2022

Awarded
Unknown

To develop an innovative system so-called SolarGain - High-Vision: A novel autonomous operator assistance smart tool for photovoltaic panel video-inspection.

2017 Collaborative R&D

AlwaysClean

1 Oct 2017 to 31 Mar 2019

Awarded
£124,267
Total cost £177,524

The AlwaysClean project will establish laboratory scale verification & field evaluation that a durable easy clean coating for solar PV market can be achieved by the use of novel nanostructured additives. This coating will improve the operational PV performance by preventing dirt and grime accumulation on solar PV modules & reducing or eliminating the asso...

2017 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Essex and Above Surveying Ltd

1 Jun 2017 to 31 May 2019

Awarded
Unknown

To embed intelligent systems within an UAV thermographic solar energy inspection platform to reduce UAV weight, performance and flight time.

Product types

Collaborative R&D EU-Funded Feasibility Studies Innovation Loans Knowledge Transfer Partnership