These operational models emphasize first safety and accuracy, by showing utilities how to institute rigorous standard operating procedures in service of this particular application. Kristen: We help leading American utilities identify sources of thermographic data and develop operational models that incorporate the use of robotics and our AI-powered thermographic tagging engine. No matter the climate, preventing components from overheating is crucial to avoiding outages.ĭL: Going forward, what is PrecisionHawk doing to educate utilities about such problems and solutions? The ability to more efficiently review and identify thermal issues is valuable not only from a resource standpoint but also to maintain network uptime. Kristen: Utility companies are searching for hot spots and conducting thermal reporting across the nation. Our model also uses situational awareness to exclude known false negatives like cars and heat spots on background buildings.ĭL: How has the utility market responded to PrecisionHawk’s business case in regards to this problem? PrecisionAnalytics, an AI-powered analysis engine, reduces the time spent reviewing images that lack valuable data by identifying potential thermal anomalies. With an average of five images per pole and 30 images per feeder, and a $30 hourly rate for thermographers, this adds up. Currently, thermographers must review every single image that comes in. Kristen: PrecisionHawk saves utility companies time and money by reducing the noise and narrowing in on hotspots to review. PrecisionHawk enables enterprise companies to upload reports and images into the system and pull insights out, with a robust API library to integrate PrecisionAnalytics into their existing workflow.ĭL: What benefits are utilities seeing from PrecisionHawk’s drone offering solutions?
With a reduced number of images to review, utility companies can identify thermal issues and rank them by severity so that they can be pushed to work orders and repaired quickly. In the platform, assets can be filtered down to only those with potential damage.
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Our Data Services team then loads anomaly reports, created with cutting-edge AI algorithms, into the PrecisionAnalytics software interface.