A well-known large-scale complex in Shenzhen, China, integrating office, commercial, and residential functions, consists of multiple high-rise buildings. Maintaining clean and aesthetically pleasing facades is an essential yet challenging task in its daily upkeep.
The Challenge: Complex Facades, Difficult Cleaning
Two office buildings within the complex feature irregular exterior designs with numerous protrusions and angled sections, significantly increasing the difficulty and risk of cleaning. Traditional manual cleaning and conventional equipment struggle to adapt, presenting several challenges:
Hard-to-reach areas: Protruding and angled sections make manual cleaning difficult and limit movement.
Limited cleaning equipment: Conventional cleaning tools are ineffective on uneven surfaces.
Increased safety risks: Working at heights becomes even riskier on irregular facades.
To address these persistent issues, the property management team invested substantial manpower and financial resources every year but continued to face bottlenecks in efficiency, cost, and safety. Seeking a breakthrough, they decided to replace traditional cleaning methods with intelligent solutions to enhance service quality while reducing costs and eliminating work-related risks.
Pliabot® Technology: The Breakthrough Solution for Complex Facades
After evaluating multiple options, the property management team chose the Orion AP3-P3 Pliabot® Aerial Tethered Cleaning System for facade maintenance. Thanks to the unique advantages of Pliabot® technology, the results were immediate and highly effective.
The Orion AP3-P3 Pliabot® Aerial Tethered Cleaning System introduces an industry-first “Pliabot® Robotics + Drone” cleaning model. With Pliabot® technology at its core, it seamlessly adapts to complex building facades through several key advantages:
Compact & Agile, Fully Adaptable: Its lightweight design is uniquely suited for small drones, allowing precise and flexible maneuverability.
Thorough Cleaning, No Missed Spots: The system supports multi-angle adjustments while hovering, easily reaching protrusions, angled sections, and windowsills—no facade is too complex.
Pliabot® Stability, Ultimate Safety: Equipped with the proprietary Pliabot® Adaptive Gimbal, the system ensures self-balancing and flexible contact, counteracting spray recoil and flight disturbances. This not only protects the drone but also ensures the safety of the building during high-altitude operations.
Moreover, the Orion AP3-P3 supports continuous water supply operations, making it several times more efficient than manual labor while significantly reducing operational costs compared to human teams or large cleaning systems. By tackling complex facade cleaning challenges, it drives cost-effective and high-efficiency building maintenance.
About the Orion AP3-P3 Pliabot® Aerial Tethered Cleaning System
The Orion AP3-P3 Pliabot® Aerial Tethered Cleaning System is an intelligent robotic cleaning solution designed for high-altitude and complex environments, making it ideal for building facades, photovoltaic towers, and other elevated surfaces. Unlike other cleaning drones, AP3-P3 leverages Pliabot® technology to uniquely integrate with industry-leading compact drone models like DJI M300/M350, ensuring greater agility, easier airspace approvals, and enhanced adaptability in confined spaces.
With its flexible Pliabot® joints, the system effectively mitigates recoil and operational disturbances, ensuring safe interactions between the drone and the building. Its multi-angle adjustable spray function allows it to perform deep cleaning on difficult-to-reach surfaces while hovering, making it the ultimate solution for safe, efficient, and cost-effective high-altitude cleaning.
As Pliabot® technology continues to revolutionize high-altitude maintenance, Orion AP3-P3 is setting new standards for intelligent facade cleaning—ensuring every surface, no matter how complex, is cleaned with precision, efficiency, and safety.
