Customer Story
Vattenfall
June 22, 2023
Detecting vegetation close to power lines.
Power lines stretch over terrain that's costly and slow to inspect on foot, but vegetation growing too close to them is one of the leading causes of grid failures. The job was a fit for drones — if the onboard AI could detect both the lines and the obstacles around them in real time.
Challenge
Inspection of power lines with drone-carried camera solution.
Solution
- Combining AI and signal processing algorithms for optimal performance on limited HW resources
- Customised DL NN solution for power line detection in complex environments
- Structure from Motion-based algorithms for obstacle detection with combined geometry of terrain and vegetation
- Optimized and deployed on drone carried HW for real-time inspection
Outcome
- More cost-efficient maintenance by reducing manual labour
- Larger areas covered in shorter amount of time
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