About
See what’s coming. Decide what’s next.
Piedmont Property Intelligence turns aerial thermal and high-resolution imagery into decisions building owners can act on. We started from a simple gap: the most useful information about a building — where it's failing, leaking, or overheating — is usually the hardest and most dangerous to reach.
A drone closes that gap. What used to take a crew, a lift, and a full day of exposure to height and energized equipment now takes a single flight. And because every pass is radiometric and geotagged, the result isn't a folder of photos — it's a measurable record you can compare year over year.
Every flight is planned and flown under FAA Part 107, with airspace authorizations secured before we ever leave the ground. We carry full insurance and document our methodology on every engagement. The goal is simple: findings you can put in front of an underwriter, a facilities director, or a court without a caveat.
Anyone can hand you drone footage. The value is in the analysis — locating an anomaly, quantifying it, and ranking it against everything else on the roof. Our pipeline processes radiometric imagery into prioritized findings, so your team spends its time fixing problems instead of hunting for them.
We fly the DJI Matrice 4T, pairing a high-resolution wide camera with a 640×512 radiometric thermal sensor. That combination lets us document a defect visually and confirm it thermally in the same pass — the difference between "there might be a problem here" and "there is a problem here, and it's this big."
Piedmont Property Intelligence was founded by Billy Durnan, who brings a master's degree in analytics and fifteen years of senior leadership across real estate, utility, and commercial construction. That career was built on a single conviction: the right data, read the right way, turns guesswork into decisions. Piedmont applies that same discipline to what a drone sees — pairing aerial thermal, 3D, and progress capture with automated anomaly detection that flags the moisture, heat, and structural issues a human eye would miss, then ranks them by severity. The result is a flight that comes back not as raw footage, but as prioritized answers you can act on.