Transform inspection project announced
eSmart Systems, Xcel Energy and EDM Int. announce strategic initiative to deploy AI-based Collaborative Intelligence for 5,300 km of Xcel’s transmission lines.
USA: eSmart Systems, Xcel Energy and EDM International announce the first phase of a strategic initiative to deploy AI-based Collaborative Intelligence for 5,300 km (3,300 miles) of Xcel’s transmission lines to improve asset information, reduce operational costs, decrease failure rates, and extend asset life.
The Collaborative Intelligence approach will allow Xcel to adopt eSmart’s AI-based analytics into their existing business processes, to analyze imagery data of transmission assets collected by Xcel’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and manned helicopters and validated by EDM’s subject matter experts, to prioritize transmission line operations, identify defects, and update asset information in Xcel’s asset management systems.
“eSmart Systems is pleased to partner with EDM to bring its Collaborative Intelligence approach to help Xcel Energy use UAS data collected by Phoenix Air Unmanned. We see this project as helping utilities to practically bridge the gap in transition from today’s largely manual processes to the world that leverages digital technology such as AI and UAS images for grid inspection and asset management,” says Knut H. H. Johansen, CEO and founder of eSmart Systems.
Source: Business Wire