Overview
Noteworthy AI helps utilities evaluate the condition of the electric distribution grid at-scale with fleet vehicle-mounted cameras, edge computing and computer vision. By leveraging existing fleet vehicles to automate data collection and analysis, Noteworthy can significantly increase situational awareness of the distribution grid while reducing operations and maintenance costs. Noteworthy’s solution, Inspect, mounts non-intrusively on fleet vehicles to automatically detect poles, calculate geographic coordinates, and collect high-resolution imagery—fully autonomously during routine vehicle operations with no impact on the crew. Proprietary machine learning models, deployed directly on the edge devices, enable low-cost data analysis in the context of several applications including: asset inventory/GIS update, asset inspection, vegetation management, 3rd party attachment assessments and more. Inspect can help utilities to significantly increase situational awareness on the distribution grid, helping to improve its reliability, resiliency and safety while reducing operations and maintenance costs. Utilities have used Inspect to better understand their distribution infrastructure in the following ways: Know where poles are, what’s on them and their condition Understand where asset upgrades are needed to support increased demand Shift from cyclical to severity-based vegetation trimming programs Validate 3rd party attachments and clearance requirements And more