Autonomous inspection
Boost service reliability with AI-powered grid insights
Aging infrastructure, extreme weather, and rising demand are driving utilities to scale grid inspections.
Percepto’s autonomous distribution grid inspection solution leverages AI-powered SaaS, autonomous drones, and remote fleet operations, enabling organizations to scale their grid inspections seamlessly. Minimize SAIDI, reduce SAIFI, lower OpEx, and strengthen grid resilience – without adding operational strain.
Percepto AI-powered Dx solution
Top use cases at electric utilities:
Electrical component inspection
Detects overheating components with AI-driven temperature-based assessment.
Infrastructure integrity inspection
Identifies broken components, rust, rot, corrosion, and more with AI-powered analysis.
Vegetation management
Generate vegetation encroachment reports and detect vegetation risks before fires ignite.
Disaster recovery
Leverage remotely operated drone fleets to quickly inspect power grids, providing instant infrastructure visibility after a storm or disaster.
Proactive maintenance
Get prioritized insights to identify risks faster, optimize maintenance, and prevent failures—without sifting through endless images and data.
Explore the only end-to-end autonomous inspections & monitoring solution
Our technology
Percepto’s solution for electric utilities and infrastructure maintenance consists of autonomous robots managed by Percepto AIM deployed across a site, with a sophisticated cloud backend for AI-powered site inspections, monitoring, surveillance, and visual data collection & management.
Percepto enables electric utilities to:
Reduce outages
Improve service reliability by detecting issues early before they escalate.
Boost reliability
Leverage AI-powered insights to track asset health, failure risks, and infrastructure trends.
Streamline operations
Use GIS insights to direct teams to precise locations with the right equipment.
Lower OpEx
Shift from reactive to proactive maintenance with prioritized risk-based decisions.
FAQs
Autonomous inspections for electric utilities
How often should my electrical utility be inspected?
Many utilities inspect their infrastructure on a five year cycle, with some utilities performing more frequent inspections around every 12 months. Utilities relying on autonomous inspections typically inspect their infrastructure on a weekly basis.
How does a drone inspect power lines?
Piloted drones are directed to power lines, collected visual data of the poles, lines and other components. That data is later manually reviewed to look for faults or failures. Autonomous drones inspect power lines at the same height and angle every time. Percepto’s autonomous drones feed highly repetitive and high quality data to AI algorithms that detect faults and failures.
How can utilities benefit from autonomous inspections?
Autonomous inspections allow utilities to prevent outages by detecting faults early on – and respond quickly when outages do happen as is the case after a storm. Additionally, autonomous inspections boost productivity and safety at utilities.
What role does AI or computer vision play at utilities?
Percpeto’s AI algorithm automatically detects temperature changes and physical faults or failures, including cracks and vegetation. Currently Percepto AIM is the only inspection solution on the market that offers AI-powered change detection for utilities.
What electrical utilities rely on autonomous inspections at their facilities?
From Florida Power & Light in the US to Enel in Italy, Utilities around the world have begun to see the value of autonomous, remote inspections at their facilities.
