Raptor Maps Solar Management Platform and Solar Sentry

Raptor Maps is a solar asset intelligence company based in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. It serves solar asset owners, O&M providers and EPC contractors that need to find, prioritise and fix equipment issues across large plants in order to lower risk, cost and lost generation.

The Solar Management Platform rebuilds each plant as an equipment-level, GPS-accurate digital twin that combines drone imagery, ground sensors and equipment data into one auditable record. Aerial thermography analytics flag DC health problems, cracks, erosion and fire risk, while work orchestration and an offline-capable mobile app guide technicians through remediation. Raptor Solar Sentry adds remotely commanded docked drones that run scheduled, alert-triggered or on-demand inspections after SCADA alarms, storms or fires. Named users include Madison Energy Infrastructure and BayWa r.e. Operations Services.

• Digital twin: equipment-level, GPS-accurate maps of each plant on desktop and mobile.
• Visual analytics: aerial thermography and imagery analysis for DC health, cracks, erosion and fire risk.
• Raptor Solar Sentry: remotely commanded docked drones for scheduled, alert-triggered or on-demand missions.
• Work orchestration: coordinates remediation tasks across human crews and robotic workers.
• Mobile app: offline checklists, notes, photos and serial numbers captured in the field.
• Data consolidation: normalises data from drones, sensors and equipment into one auditable record.

Owners of utility-scale solar farms in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan could run periodic thermographic inspections and track remediation in one digital twin. O&M contractors managing many rooftop plants for industrial parks could coordinate field crews from a single platform. Insurers and lenders could use the auditable record during portfolio due diligence.

Teams see the health of every plant in one map-based record instead of scattered spreadsheets and reports. Docked drones let operators inspect sites remotely after alarms or storms without sending staff on site; Sentry units are active on more than 18 GW of solar assets. Coordinated field work reduces unnecessary truck rolls, and one customer restored 3 MW within three weeks during a coordinated remediation project.

Aerial inspection is becoming routine in solar O&M; the company's 2025 report found that average aerial inspection frequency per asset grew 70% year over year. As Vietnam and Southeast Asia accumulate large fleets of utility-scale and rooftop plants that are now several years old, owners need faster ways to locate underperforming strings and safety risks without growing field crews.

Raptor Maps is headquartered at 444 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA, USA. It publishes an annual Global Solar Report; the 2026 edition analyses 373 GWdc of utility-scale and C&I solar, including more than 75 GW of non-DC health inspections. Founding year is not stated on the company website.