Recurring Drone Inspection Programs for Facility Operations
Scheduled Drone Inspections That Feed Your Maintenance System.
Stratum Asset Intelligence runs recurring inspection programs for industrial and commercial facilities in Northeast Ohio. Quarterly, semi-annual, or annual cadence — every finding lands in your CMMS as a structured, work-order-ready record. Not a PDF.
What We Do
Inspection Programs Built for Maintenance Teams
Most drone providers sell one-off flights and hand back a PDF. Stratum runs recurring inspection cycles on the hard-to-reach, expensive-to-fail assets your maintenance team is already accountable for — roofs, overhead structures, crane runways, elevated systems, solar arrays, tanks, facades, and rooftop mechanical infrastructure.
Every inspection produces structured, severity-rated findings with asset tags, location codes, and trend data — formatted for IBM Maximo, FIIX, UpKeep, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or whatever your maintenance team already runs. Your technicians get work orders. Your leadership gets a defensible condition history.
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Our Programs
Three Recurring Programs. One Maintenance-Ready Output.
Choose the cadence and depth that matches the risk profile of your assets — from annual roof watch to managed reliability programs with CMMS integration.
Essential Asset Watch
Annual or semi-annual visual inspection of roofs and primary exterior assets. Severity-rated defect log, georeferenced photo evidence, and a structured findings deliverable (PDF and CSV) after each flight. The baseline program for facility teams that want a defensible condition record without standing up a full reliability function.
Best for: Roofs, facades, building envelope — single-site or small portfolio.
Cadence: Annual or semi-annual. Output: PDF + CSV findings.
Learn MoreCritical Asset Assurance
Quarterly visual and thermal program on the assets where failure is most expensive — crane runways, overhead structures, rooftop mechanical, solar arrays, and tank exteriors. Severity ratings, trend reporting, an S1 alert within 4 hours with a written action summary within 24 hours, and CMMS-ready work order records after each flight.
Best for: Manufacturing, distribution, utilities, energy — anywhere unplanned downtime is the dominant risk.
Cadence: Quarterly visual + thermal. Output: Structured findings + CMMS-ready import.
Learn MoreReliability Program
Managed inspection program with direct CMMS integration. Stratum scopes the asset register, sets cadence per asset class, ingests findings directly into your maintenance system via API or managed feed, and reviews trends and program performance with you each cycle. Replaces ad-hoc inspection spend with a planned reliability function.
Best for: Facility leaders standardizing inspection practice across multiple assets, sites, or asset classes.
Cadence: Per asset class, managed. Output: Direct API or managed CMMS feed.
Learn MoreWhy a Program, Not a Flight
Typical Provider vs. Stratum
Most drone companies sell flights and walk away. Stratum runs the program that actually feeds your maintenance workflow.
Our Process
How a Stratum Program Runs
Four steps from program design to maintenance-ready work orders — repeated every cycle.
Scope the Program
We walk your asset register with you, agree on which assets are in-scope, and set cadence by risk profile. Asset hierarchy, location codes, and severity framework are mapped to your CMMS before the first flight.
Inspect on Cadence
Recurring visual and thermal inspections on the schedule we agreed — quarterly, semi-annual, or annual. FAA Part 107 certified, fully insured, LAANC airspace authorization handled, scheduled around your operations.
Structure Findings
Every defect is georeferenced, severity-rated, and tagged to the right asset record. Findings are formatted as CMMS-ready records with the fields, codes, and priority levels your maintenance system expects.
Feed the Maintenance Workflow
Structured findings flow into your maintenance system — as a CSV/PDF for Essential Asset Watch, a CMMS-ready import for Critical Asset Assurance, or a direct API feed in the Reliability Program. S1 critical findings trigger an alert within 4 hours with a written action summary within 24 hours. Trend data builds across cycles into a defensible condition history.
Resources
Operator-Grade Resources for Inspection Planning
Sample deliverables, cadence frameworks, and the policy environment shaping commercial drone operations — written for facility, reliability, and maintenance leaders.
Sample Deliverable
Sample Essential Asset Watch Deliverable
Walk through what a recurring annual roof inspection cycle actually produces — severity-rated defect log, georeferenced photo evidence, and the structured findings file your maintenance team would receive.
See ResourcesInspection Planning
Inspection Frequency Framework for Northeast Ohio Facilities
How to set cadence by asset class — roofs, overhead structures, crane runways, solar, mechanical, and stormwater — for facilities in the Northeast Ohio climate and storm cycle.
See ResourcesIndustry Perspective
What the BVLOS Rule Needs to Get Right
Stratum's formal public comment to the FAA on Beyond Visual Line of Sight rulemaking — performance-based standards, layered safety, and realistic timelines for industrial operators.
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