Autonomous inspection
Boost utilities inspection reliability with autonomous drones & robots
The best way to prevent outages is by inspecting critical electric infrastructure frequently and accurately.
Leveraging the most deployed drone-in-a-box solutions and other robots, your utility’s assets are automatically inspected on a weekly or even daily basis. With Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring (AIM), you’ll receive alerts and insights regarding your assets’ health – no matter where you are in the world.
How leading utilities automate site inspections
Top use cases at electric utilities:
Aerial distribution line inspection
Percepto Air drones safely inspect high altitude poles and power lines, buildings and towers with a unique aerial perspective, collecting high quality visual and thermal data of site infrastructure.
Power line inspections
High quality thermal and RGB data is analyzed automatically. Percepto’s change detection algorithm ensure that no fault or failure goes undetected on your power grid.
Regulatory compliance auditing
With regularly scheduled inspections, Percepto AIM generates an automatic regulation audit on a weekly or daily basis, ensuring your utility is up to standards and can prove compliance.
Emergency & storm response
With an on-site industrial Percepto Base, an autonomous drone or robot is deployed without any human intervention in the event of an emergency or outage.
Safety risks monitoring
With high frequency autonomous inspections, site managers easily detect safety hazards causing slips, trips and falls, and can ensure employee safety during routine operations and emergencies.
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:
Prevent outages
Effectively prevent outages at your utility with AI powered change detection supporting your preventive maintenance strategy.
Guarantee reliability
Minimize the time it takes to respond to a disaster or emergency by relying on a robot as a first responder.
Boost safety
Prevent potential accidents and scan for hazardous work environments with remotely operated autonomous inspections.
Increase productivity
Fully autonomous utility inspections frees up time for employees and increases facility production.
FAQs
Autonomous inspections for electric utilities
What is an electric utility inspection?
Electric utilities can be grouped into three sections: power generation, transmission and distribution. At each part of the system, inspections generally inspect for physical faults, electrical outages, regulatory compliance and safety.
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.
How leading utilities are automating site inspections
To learn how leading utilities fully automate inspections to minimize downtime and optimize production, get the e-book.
