• Transforming UFD’s overhead line inspection from manual to automated through the DALI (Drone & AI Line Inspection) project.
• Grid Vision® AI-supported software will be used to inspect approximately 2.5 million images of UFD’s energy infrastructure.
• eSmart systems will deliver inspection services for UFD’s overhead lines over the course of the partnership.

This partnership is unique as it delivers Inspection as a Service for all UFD’s overhead lines through the operationally-ready Grid Vision solution. This solution enables a truly virtual and digital inspection process and delivers automation from day one through the 30 AI models that are already trained on over 6 million global images. As part of the project, there will be a gradual model development and training, focusing on UFD’s specific defects, which will be delivered through Grid Vision’s Collaborative-AI approach. Through this collaboration, UFD will benefit from day one and develop relevant AI models faster than any other solution.

This partnership will support UFD in building a sustainable future by reducing their overall carbon footprint through elimination of unnecessary field visits, helicopter flights, and truck journeys.

About UFD

UFD, the electricity distribution subsidiary of Naturgy, is the third-largest electricity distribution operator in Spain with 3.8 million supply points and 114,000 km of powerlines. We are incorporating new technologies into our electrical grids with the aim of turning them into increasingly smart grids. The investment effort that we have made in Spain in recent years has allowed us to strengthen our network, provide digital services and improve the quality of supply to make our electricity networks in Spain one of the most modern, competitive, and efficient in Europe.

About eSmart Systems

ESMART SYSTEMS is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. With our software solution, Grid Vision® we revolutionize how utility companies operate and maintain their transmission and distribution networks. eSmart Systems offers a data-driven and condition-based approach to infrastructure inspections that can be managed from a single platform. We support companies worldwide by ensuring reduced costs, safer inspections, and prolonged asset life.

Gas & Electric Company (“OG&E”), a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp. announced today it begins a pilot program that uses artificial intelligence (“AI”) to help reduce outages caused by equipment failures. As part of its grid enhancement program, OG&E will leverage collaborative AI-powered image recognition technology that enables engineers to complete distribution pole inspections with greater accuracy and helps to reduce manual review of images.

TRC Companies, an engineering and digitally focused consulting firm with expertise in IT/OT solutions, will provide overall program management for the pilot. eSmart Systems will provide the advanced technology used during the pilot, including a best practice called Collaborative AI, with their Grid Vision® solution. The solution is designed to analyze photographic images of distribution poles to identify defects, catalog asset inventory and identify risk issues that need to be addressed to better maintain reliability. The solution is expected to accelerate image analysis and improve the inspection process, while increasing efficiency, improving safety, and enhancing overall reliability. The program will initially focus on woodpecker damage as a specific use case. Woodpeckers can and do cause considerable damage to wooden distribution/power poles in a short period of time and this technology allows OG&E to better respond to deterioration and utilize a consistent approach for repairs and replacements.

We have been excited about eSmart since hearing about them through our partnership with Energy Impact Partners (EIP). Utilizing cutting-edge technology in the form of AI to inspect our distribution poles makes our electric grid smarter, improves our business processes and helps to keep the lights on for our customers,” said Zac Gladhill, Director of Grid Integration and Innovation for OG&E. “We anticipate this technology will reduce the amount of time our engineers spend sifting through photographs of poles and “triaging” potential damage. We currently anticipate applying the technology to identify additional uses in our transmission and distribution network if the pilot meets performance objectives.

OG&E’s Grid Enhancement Plan is designed to provide present and future benefits to its customers and stakeholders by focusing on the needed replacement and upgrade of equipment, while also including the installation of new technology and communications systems. The pilot program with eSmart Systems and TRC has the potential to advance the technology used by OG&E in the future and transform the way damage is assessed for years to come.

Click HERE to learn more about OG&E’s Grid Enhancement Plan.

About TRC Companies

Groundbreaker. Game changer. Innovator. TRC is a global firm providing environmentally focused and digitally powered solutions that address local needs. For more than 50 years, we have set the bar for clients who require consulting, construction, engineering, and management services, combining science with the latest technology to devise solutions that stand the test of time. TRC’s nearly 6,000 professionals serve a broad range of public and private clients, steering complex projects from conception to completion to help solve the toughest challenges. We break through barriers for our clients and help them follow through for sustainable results. TRC is ranked #20 on ENR’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms in the United States. Learn more at TRCcompanies.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

About eSmart Systems

eSmart Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. With our software solution, Grid Vision®, we revolutionize how Power Utilities operate and maintain their transmission and distribution networks. eSmart Systems offers a data-driven and condition-based approach to infrastructure inspections that can be managed from one single platform. This platform also employs Collaborative AI, a method for combing the best qualities of Machine Learning and Subject Matter Experts to achieve the best near-term inspection outcome, while also automatically training the AI for long-term success. We support companies worldwide by ensuring reduced costs, safer inspections, and prolonged asset life. For more information, please visit www.esmartsystems.com.

About OG&E

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of OGE Energy Corp. (NYSE: OGE), is Oklahoma’s largest electric utility. For more than a century, we have provided customers in Oklahoma and western Arkansas the safe, reliable electricity needed to power their businesses and homes with the nation’s lowest electric rates, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Our employees are committed to generating and delivering electricity, protecting the environment, and providing excellent service to nearly 871,000 customers. OG&E has 7,081 MW of electric generation capacity fueled by low-sulfur coal, natural gas, wind, and solar. OG&E employees live, work, and volunteer in the communities we serve. For more information about OG&E, visit us at OGE.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

SOURCE OGE Energy Corp.

eSmart Systems, a leading provider of grid inspection AI-powered software, is pleased to announce the combination with Verico, a Norwegian company offering specialized Enterprise Asset Management services and products to the utility sector.

Since its inception in 1999, Verico has successfully completed demanding projects for Transmission System Operators (TSO) such as Statnett SF in Norway and TenneT BV in The Netherlands, as well as several regional utility companies both in Norway and internationally. eSmart Systems builds and delivers next-generation software solutions to leading utilities in Europe and US, by combining the use of drones with AI for powerline inspections, grid maintenance planning and to optimize energy flexibility.

We have a high degree of complementary competencies, services and clients. This enables the combined company to offer AI-supported products and services at an industrial scale”, says Knut H. Johansen.

Verico will complete eSmart’s existing offering with field apps for data collection, web-based software for visualization of asset information and APIs for integration with legacy systems, in addition to bringing deep asset inspection domain knowledge.

There is a strong strategic rationale for eSmart and Verico to unite, including the ability to offer-end-to-end services and addressing more of the power grid. There is also a perfect business culture fit and we have already identified several specific joint opportunities. We look forward to growing our business together,” says Vidar Blomvik, CEO of Verico.

The combined company had total revenues of NOK 111 million in 2020 and 108 employees at offices in Norway (Halden, Sandefjord, Oslo and Stavanger), Sweden, Germany, UK, The Netherlands, Sri Lanka and the US.

About eSmart Systems

eSmart Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. With our software solution, Grid Vision™, we revolutionize how Power Utilities operate and maintain their transmission and distribution networks. eSmart Systems offers a data-driven and condition-based approach to infrastructure inspections that can be managed from one single platform. We support companies worldwide by ensuring reduced costs, safer inspections, and prolonged asset life. For more information, please visit www.esmartsystems.com.

About Verico

Verico offers specialized services and products within Enterprise Asset Management. Our references within the utility sector span industries like electric power generation and distribution, gas distribution and other utilities. In addition to our unique photography-based data acquisition and quality assurance service, Verico provides services within asset data modelling, asset documentation, software development and integration, project management and more. Verico was established in 1999 and is headquartered in Ipark, Stavanger, Norway. For more information, please visit www.verico.com.

eSmart Systems, a leading provider of grid inspection AI-powered software, supports Axpo in a service agreement to digitalize overhead line inspections. Axpo, Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy and an international leader in energy trading, has launched an ambitious programme called Grid 4.0 to develop new approaches for optimized operation of future power grids.

Operational scale-up after a successful pilot

eSmart Systems first started working together with Axpo in April 2020 with a pilot project for the AI-powered grid inspection tool Grid Vision®. Axpo experts tested the solution in daily operations, to prove its value in the end-to-end inspection process.

Leveraging drones, aerial images, and Axpo experts’ knowledge through Grid Vision’s advanced AI models for defect detection on power lines, Axpo adopted a collaborative AI approach. It enabled the subject matter experts to utilize AI-generated image observations to save time and increase precision.

After this successful pilot, Axpo plans to roll out Grid Vision in its entire grid operations, where maintenance experts will use the virtual inspection software for the inspection of 1900 km overhead lines. Axpo’s maintenance teams also perform power line inspections for other grid operators such as Swiss Transmission System Operator Swissgrid.

Operational ramp-up commenced in May 2021 with the deployment of eSmart Systems’ Grid Vision AI-based solution to support the full inspection and maintenance workflows.

We are excited about implementing Grid Vision into our operations. The cooperation with eSmart Systems enables the move from procedural to condition-based maintenance and will be an important step to ensure a highly reliable grid in the future” explains Johannes Manser, Head Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, and programme manager of Axpo’s digital transformation programme Grid 4.0.

About eSmart Systems

eSmart Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. With our software solution, Grid Vision®, we revolutionize how Power Utilities operate and maintain their transmission and distribution networks. eSmart Systems offers a data-driven and condition-based approach to infrastructure inspections that can be managed from one single platform. We support companies worldwide by ensuring reduced costs, safer inspections, and prolonged asset life.

Energinet and eSmart Systems leverage synergies between human experts and AI-based analytics to succeed in the transition from manual to automated processes thanks to a revolutionary new Grid Vision® corrosion module.

A co-development within eSmart Systems’ Grid Vision Innovation Lab programme 

The need for automated processes

Rust detection on aging infrastructure is a challenging task. With steel towers constructed primarily in the 1960s and 1970s and in a maritime climate, Energinet faces a particular challenge when it comes to rust.

We needed a solution to help streamline our rust inspections and at the same time improve the end-to-end maintenance process,” said Kenneth Nørup Knudsen, Team Leader and Senior Specialist at Energinet of Energinet.  “Working with eSmart Systems gives us access to world class AI and inspection management tools, and the ability to participate in the design of this all-new module is an exciting step on our innovation and digitalization journey.

From images to actionable information

Energinet and eSmart Systems have a long history together. The journey towards a strong partnership began in 2017 when Energinet needed a solution to instantly detect and quantify rust on their towers. The companies now embark in a co-development to create an all-new module of eSmart Systems’ inspection software Grid Vision, which gives Energinet an overview of grid condition by assessing the percentage of deep rust on each asset using advanced AI algorithms.

eSmart Systems will deliver an asset-based inspection solution relying on collaborative AI to harness SMEs expertise, increase automation and asset insight. That allows Energinet to monitor rust evolution on towers over time and even to enable predictive maintenance.

eSmart Systems’ Grid Vision Innovation Lab is a revolutionary programme whereby customers are invited to co-design new solutions with eSmart Systems’ team of industry digitalization experts. Members of the programme have the chance to directly influence Grid Vision’s development and get early access to the new features while eSmart benefits from this unique forum to gather feedback and fine-tune the solutions before official release.

Leveraging synergies between human experts and AI-based analytics, E.ON, one of Europe’s largest energy companies, and eSmart Systems, a leading provider of grid inspection AI-powered software, are joining forces to improve European distribution grid asset management by making inspection processes safer for people, more efficient for utilities, and more sustainable for the environment.

The partnership, which is initially set to run for 12 months, commenced in January with the deployment of eSmart Systems’ Grid Vision™. This AI-based solution is supporting the full inspection and maintenance workflows across the three E.ON distribution system operators E.DIS, MITNETZ STROM and Westnetz, totaling approx. 45 000 kilometers of high- and medium voltage overhead lines. The software detects, analyzes and visualizes components and potential defects within the infrastructure on the basis of pictures made by drones. E.ON will leverage eSmart Systems’ technologies to adopt asset-based virtual inspections of distribution lines into existing business processes.

Thomas König, responsible for networks on the E.ON Board of Management, emphasizes: “Digital and innovative solutions are key for our grids in being the backbone of the energy transition. In order to achieve the best for our network customers, we also rely on strong partnerships with start-ups. By partnering with eSmart Systems, we are improving the accuracy of power grid inspections and the security of supply. Ultimately, fewer mast climbs will be necessary, resulting in an increase in work safety.”

About E.ON

E.ON is an international investor-owned energy company, which focuses on energy networks and customer solutions. As one of Europe’s largest energy companies, E.ON plays a leading role in shaping a clean, digital, decentralized world of energy. To this end, around 75,000 employees develop and sell products and solutions for private, commercial and industrial customers. More than 50 million customers purchase electricity, gas, digital products or solutions for electric mobility, energy efficiency and climate protection from E.ON. As an innovation leader, E.ON provides newest technological solutions to its customers, and drives cross-industry partnerships in the energy sector and beyond. E.ON is headquartered in Essen, Germany. For more information, please visit www.eon.com.

About eSmart Systems  

eSmart Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. With our software solution, Grid Vision™, we revolutionize how Power Utilities operate and maintain their transmission and distribution networks. eSmart Systems offers a data-driven and condition-based approach to infrastructure inspections that can be managed from one single platform. We support companies worldwide by ensuring reduced costs, safer inspections, and prolonged asset life.

This year, German energy companies E.ON and innogy merged their venture capital teams and portfolios under a new venture arm called Future Energy Ventures. The new entity’s mission is to identify, fund, and mentor some of the most exciting start-ups in the future energy sector.

innogy Ventures, now Future Energy Ventures, was one of the investors that helped eSmart Systems raise 34,4 million USD of capital in 2019. As an owner, they have provided valuable support and have played a vital role in eSmart Systems’ expansion in the European market.

We sat down with Jan Palasinski, Investment Partner at Future Energy Ventures and member of the Board of Directors at eSmart Systems, to talk about Future Energy Ventures goals as a new entity, their investment strategies, and their relationship with eSmart Systems.

Can you start by telling us about Future Energy Ventures, what it does, and what are your focus areas at the moment?

Future Energy Ventures is the venture capital and collaboration platform of E.ON. As a newly launched organization, we focus on helping our existing portfolio companies find new business opportunities and scale with our mother company E.ON. Given that a share of our combined portfolio is exposed for the first time to E.ON, we want to make sure their solutions reach the Business Units.

Aside from growing our existing portfolio, we are also actively scouting the market for start-ups developing digital and digitally-enabled technologies and business models that have the potential to redefine the future energy landscape. We focus on digital, scalable, and asset-light companies seeking Series A and beyond funding.

Our goal is to capitalize on the investment opportunities presented by the transition to this new energy future and maximize scaling opportunities for our portfolio.

Earlier this year, the merger between E.ON and innogy was completed. Why did integrating E.ON and innogy as one entity make sense?

Following E.ON’s acquisition of innogy, the two venture businesses have now been fully integrated into one operating structure. This is an extremely exciting development. Not only does the integration makes E.ON one of Europe’s largest operators of energy networks, energy-related infrastructure, and innovative customer solutions, but E.ON and innogy share the same vision for the future of energy.

Aside from its core operational activities, innogy’s venturing activities were also combined with E.ON’s to create a brand new entity that continues to identify, fund, and mentor some of the most exciting start-ups in the future energy sector. This entity is Future Energy Ventures.

We at Future Energy Ventures, share a common vision and approach to investing and help growing the start-ups solutions for a more digital, decarbonized, and democratized energy system. We believe that businesses need more than just money to succeed. They need collaboration, mentoring, and the opportunity to partner with other organizations that can help accelerate their growth trajectory and build their business. 

We build on the foundations laid by the teams from both E.ON and innogy and the more than 60 portfolio companies we have worked with and invested in over 10 years. We reinvented ourselves to be more visionary, more connected and more impactful.

Why did Future Energy Ventures invest in eSmart Systems, and how does eSmart fit with your strategy?

My colleagues invested in eSmart Systems mainly because of its innovative approach to grid asset management and maintenance. eSmart’s technology fits perfectly into E.ON’s energy networks business, as it helps to prolong asset life and to increase operational and capital efficiency. 

eSmart Systems’ AI and digital capabilities are paired with a profound knowledge of the energy industry. This is a perfect match for our investment hypothesis to invest in startups that support the digital transformation of the energy system. eSmart’s main product, Grid Vision, which automates grid asset inspections, is the perfect example of how machine learning can reduce maintenance costs while also increasing its quality.

Since I have joined eSmart’s board of Directors I have also been impressed by the experienced management team and the traction they had already established with their global customer base, as well as with prestigious international co-investors.

How do you give growth support to your investments and eSmart Systems in particular?

Future Energy Ventures’ investment team is in constant exchange with all E.ON’s business units, in a dialogue that aims at capturing their most pressing problems and at proposing innovative solutions coming from the startup world. We typically start our match-making activities between startups and business units even before investing, to make sure that the expectations of both parties will be met during our journey together.

In the specific case with eSmart Systems, the collaboration started already back in 2019 when innogy Ventures, now Future Energy Ventures, made an investment and linked the start-up with two of our DSOs (WestNetz & MitNetz). This connection resulted in two very successful PoCs on automated asset inspection.

What role do you see eSmart Systems play in the future energy industry?

eSmart Systems will be one of the leading AI-driven software providers for the inspection of powerlines, grid maintenance planning, and asset management. The more data will be processed by the eSmart software, the better the quality of the service will become, and thus customer satisfaction.

eSmart Systems, the energy industry’s leader in AI-based grid inspection and grid maintenance planning software, recruited Steve Hambric last October as President of North America. Steve has been driving the company’s vision through rapid expansion and the implementation of a long-term growth strategy during the first year in his role. In this interview, he shares with us his experience as President, the value of eSmart Systems’ products to North American Utilities, and the role of AI in the energy industry.

A year ago, you took the role of President of North America Operations at eSmart Systems. You were recruited to lead an ambitious strategy and to expand business to North America. What have you achieved in your first year?

Before joining, I was fortunate enough to spend time with some eSmart leaders and board members working on our North America strategy. So when I became part of the team, we were aligned and confident in our focus from day one.

First, we focused on deploying Grid Vision™ to help utilities revolutionize how they inspect and manage their transmission and distribution networks. This is the best product-market fit I’ve had in my career, and it creates compelling value for utilities, their customers, regulators, and partners. In addition to focusing on our solution and its application, we were committed to being more disciplined in the opportunities we pursued.  

We focused on programmatic inspections of a core group of utilities with clear opportunities to scale. The results have been fantastic. When I joined, we had recently signed our first Grid Vision™ contract in North America.  Since then, we’ve added six more leading utilities with a great pipeline to follow.  In spite of the disruption we’re all battling with Covid-19, we have more than doubled North America revenue in 2020 while executing a dramatic strategic pivot. The broader eSmart team has done amazing work to make this happen. Additionally, we’ve laid the foundation in 2020 for a compelling future with Grid Vision™. 

What are other focus areas for 2020?

Partnerships are very important to how we’ll deliver maximum value to the utility industry.  We aren’t trying to do everything. Instead, we are focused on building and delivering technology in a way that maximizes the value our partners deliver for utilities. These partners primarily include aerial image capture and inspection services firms.  

We even changed the name of our product from Connected Drone to Grid Vision™ this year to be more clear about what we do and what we don’t do. We don’t own or operate drones and our AI software analyzes images from aerial and ground-based sources.

Can you explain how eSmart Systems’ Grid Vision™ brings value to your customers in North America?

Absolutely. eSmart Systems builds and delivers fantastic technology that helps the industry conduct inspections that are more accurate, thorough, fast, safe, and cost-effective. We don’t need to completely replace existing inspection processes. In fact, we’ve designed our tools to flexibly integrate with existing processes to make them both more efficient and more effective. Utilities will get the best results when human experts and AI work collaboratively. It’s also important that we make all this data and insight available for a host of other use cases to support utilities asset management, maintenance, supply chain, analytics, and more.   

What are the key challenges you foresee for utilities looking to revolutionize inspections and asset management?  How is eSmart Systems positioned to help the industry overcome these challenges?

Risk, whether real or perceived, is always going to influence how rapidly you can change processes as mission critical as these.  We developed an approach we call Collaborative AI. It allows utilities to use algorithms to learn from the subject matter experts while they do their inspections. Then gradually, the AI can handle a greater share of the inspections. This can be done with as much or as little human expert oversight as desired.

Another risk with such a massive opportunity is creating a project so complicated that it takes too long to begin. If we as an industry try to jump headfirst into AI-enabled predictive maintenance, it’s going to be a long jump. We think there are some great first steps that have quick paybacks. It will build a foundation for a more compelling and integrated vision of the future.    

With the acquisition of some big utilities as customers, eSmart Systems has got a solid foothold in the US market. For continued growth, what is the most important thing to focus on going forward?

This is so basic, but we need to listen to our utilities and partners first. Then process that information to continually improve our products and how we deploy them. Utilities have an amazing track record of maintaining safe and reliable networks. By collaborating with them we’ll deliver the next generation of technology solutions and create massive value for the industry.  

eSmart Systems is certainly poised to continue disrupting the status quo for Utility companies. What role do you see AI playing in the future of our energy systems?

As in most industries, there are almost limitless applications for AI in utilities. But as a partner to utilities, it’s critical that we not get distracted by chasing too many use cases. Until AI reaches a certain level of competence, and I believe that level of competence will be very high, we aren’t going to create value at a scale relative to current business processes.  So, we need to maintain the narrow focus we spoke of earlier while delivering incredibly compelling value for electric T&D inspections before we branch off into too many other use cases.

At the end of the year 2018, eSmart Systems successfully completed a capital raise joined by Equinor Ventures. Equinor’s corporate venture fund is dedicated to investing in attractive and ambitious early phase high-growth companies. As a hands-on investor, Equinor has taken an active role in the ownership of eSmart Systems.

We sat down with Investment Manager at Equinor Ventures, Thor Olav Thorsnes Egeland, to talk about the investment in eSmart Systems, how Equinor Ventures gives growth support and the transitioning of the energy industry. 

Can you start by telling a bit about your company, what it does and what are you focusing on in particular at the moment?

Equinor Ventures is Equinor’s corporate venture fund dedicated to investing in attractive and ambitious early phase and growth companies. We believe that the innovation, creativity and agility of start-ups can drive change and transition the energy industry towards a low carbon future. Equinor Ventures invests in companies that support and enable our current operations, which are future potential growth legs for Equinor, or have high impact technologies and business models that support the energy transition.

Partnered with Equinor Ventures, how do you see eSmart Systems shape the future of energy?

eSmart Systems is already changing how large utilities are working It will continue to support more efficient, precise and cheaper monitoring of the grid. eSmart is delivering the technology of the future for grid inspection.

We are among the few of Equinor’s European portfolio companies from the power industry. Why did you invest in eSmart Systems, and how does it fit with your strategy?

The company’s technical ability paired with a proven entrepreneurial team attracted us. eSmart Systems was early in delivering commercial AI solutions to the power industry and attracted international recognition. This is a great fit with our strategy of investing in companies that could potentially support Equinor’s core business but also in our strategy of investing in companies with high-impact technologies that support the energy transition.

How do you give growth support to your investments, and eSmart Systems in particular?

We are an active investor that typically takes board seats in our portfolio companies. As a hands-on investor we also typically support our companies, like eSmart Systems, in fundraising, recruitment, business development, and M&A.

eSmart Systems’ industry leading AI-based grid inspection software has been rebranded as Grid Vision™. This platform will continue to reduce operational costs, increase reliability, generate accurate and detailed asset records, and extend the life of utility infrastructure.

This year, eSmart Systems announced it had rebranded its industry leading AI-based grid inspection software as Grid Vision™, in order to better serve utilities and more accurately reflect the value and benefits it delivers for its global utility partners. Previously known as “Connected Drone”, the software is already utilized by over 35 utilities in the U.S. and Europe and is the most widely adopted AI-based grid inspection software product in the industry.

The name Grid Vision™ more accurately reflects the software’s agnostic approach to how high resolution images are captured, supporting image capture from any aerial or ground-based source, to analyze and inspect the world’s critical electric grid infrastructure for transmission and distribution assets. The product currently analyzes grid assets throughout Europe and North America by using a combination of AI and human intelligence to update asset inventories, detect defects, extend asset life, and inform critical decision making.  

Grid Vision supports Collaborative Intelligence  

eSmart Systems’ Collaborative Intelligence approach combines human intelligence from Subject Matter Experts with Grid Vision™. Together they analyze high-resolution images captured by Unmanned Aircraft Systems, manned helicopters, and ground crews. As algorithms are localized, the software delivers greater value and accuracy over time. These capabilities are a key linchpin transitioning from today’s manual grid inspection practices to a process that uses the optimal combination of humans, AI, and images. These synergies result in more efficiently inspected grid systems, reduced failure rates, and extended asset life. 

Read more about Grid Vision here, or contact us to get more information.