Continued demand and strain on the grid requires advancements in proactive maintenance and asset inspections in order to deliver a resilient and reliable system. Digitally transforming the inspection of grid assets enables more rapid discovery of asset issues, improves worker efficiency and provides deeper insights into the overall health of the network. By Implementing advanced grid image analytics utilizing computer vision AI analysis of drone collected inspection imagery, real breakthroughs in network reliability are possible. Implementing these new practices of course requires thoughtful preparation, tools, organizational alignment and change management to be successful. Optelos will walk through the technology advancements, implementation steps, best practices and lessons learned to allow power utilities to digitally transform their asset inspection, maintenance and network reliability practices leveraging new grid analytics and AI.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn the advantages of implementing a computer vision AI inspection program
• Tools and capabilities required to digitally transform your inspection program
• Change Management and the steps of implementation · Lessons learned and best practices