ConductVision Enterprise
ConductVision checks field crews for hard hats and vests, logs crew visits at substations and solar sites and reads analog dials for utility operations teams.
3 detectionsConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: MTA Capital Construction Mega Projects, CC BY 2.0, cropped.
Energy infrastructure spans thousands of miles of transmission lines, hundreds of substations, and distributed generation assets in locations ranging from offshore wind farms to desert solar fields. Inspection and security of these assets depend on periodic manual assessments that are expensive, weather-dependent, and inherently limited in coverage. ConductVision's technology can watch energy generation and distribution assets through fixed cameras, drones and robotic crawlers. It can flag equipment wear, security breaches and environmental hazards across the network.
Outcomes
Line and substation crews work across many small sites that a safety lead rarely reaches.
PPE gaps at the sites no one visits go unseen and uncoached.
Contract crews log their substation visits in an app or on paper, after the fact.
The utility has no independent record to check visit times on a contractor's invoice.
Oil level, pressure and temperature dials at substations get read on periodic rounds.
A slow change between rounds shows up only when an alarm trips.
Solar panel degradation, wind turbine blade damage, and transmission line faults develop gradually and often go undetected until performance loss becomes significant or a failure event occurs. Substations in remote locations are vulnerable to intrusion, vandalism, and wildlife-caused outages. Inspection teams cannot maintain adequate coverage across geographically dispersed asset portfolios with manual methods alone.
ConductVision can analyze drone and fixed-camera imagery to detect solar panel hotspots, cracked cells, and soiling patterns. Wind turbine blade inspection can identify leading edge erosion, lightning strike damage, and surface cracks from high-resolution imagery. Substation cameras can provide perimeter security, equipment thermal monitoring, and wildlife deterrent triggering.
What the model sees
ConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: Tonyglen14, CC BY 2.0, cropped.
ConductVision detections on this photo. Photo: Tdorante10, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.
Endpoints
Each endpoint is defined before the pilot starts, with what is counted, its unit and how the results are broken down.
| Endpoint | How it is counted | Unit | Broken down by |
|---|---|---|---|
| PrimaryCrew PPE rate | Share of person-minutes on substation and solar sites with a hard hat and a high-visibility vest both worn. | Unit:% | By:Site, crew visit, item |
| SecondaryTime on site | Minutes from a crew truck's arrival at the site entrance to its departure. | Unit:minutes per visit (median) | By:Site, weekday |
| Visits per site | Crew visits logged at each site, counted once from arrival to departure. | Unit:visits per month | By:Site |
| Out-of-range dial readings | Hourly dial readings that fall outside the range the asset team sets for that dial. | Unit:readings per dial-month | By:Site, dial |
Each pilot measures ConductVision on your own footage against a sample checked by hand, before anyone relies on its numbers.
Dial reading error
Difference between the ConductVision reading and a reviewer's reading of the same dial on sampled stills.
dial units (mean absolute difference) · by dial, light conditions
Visit time agreement
Share of sampled visits where the arrival and departure times ConductVision logs fall within 5 minutes of a reviewer's.
% · by site
Vest recall
Share of high-visibility vests a reviewer sees in sampled frames that ConductVision also detected.
% · by site, distance to camera
Capabilities
Spots and tracks small drones in the sky over sites and perimeters.
Finds people, vehicles and animals in thermal camera frames, day or night.
Flags people and vehicles inside the zones you draw on each camera.
Watches water, wildlife, vessels and smoke at rivers, wetlands and shorelines.
Tracks posture, waiting and movement from pose keypoints in public spaces.
Finds each analog gauge in view, with needle reading calibrated per gauge.
Use cases
Drone-mounted visible and thermal cameras can scan solar arrays to identify cracked cells, hotspot anomalies, delamination, snail trails, and bypass diode failures. Defective panels can be geolocated within the array layout and prioritized for replacement based on estimated power loss.
High-resolution drone imagery of turbine blades can be analyzed for leading edge erosion, lightning receptor damage, surface cracks, and trailing edge splits. Defect severity classifications can inform maintenance scheduling and blade repair versus replacement decisions.
Perimeter cameras can detect fence breaches, unauthorized vehicle approaches, and personnel entry outside of scheduled maintenance windows. Thermal imaging can identify equipment overheating in transformers and switchgear, while wildlife detection can trigger deterrent systems before animals cause outages.
Aerial imagery can identify vegetation encroachment, conductor sag anomalies, insulator damage, and tower structural issues across transmission corridors. Priority alerts can be generated for conditions that present imminent risk, while lower-severity findings can be queued for scheduled maintenance cycles.
Underground cable route cameras and overhead line inspection imagery can detect exposed conductors, damaged cable markings, third-party encroachment near buried assets, and pole lean or foundation erosion. Route condition reports can be generated automatically for asset management systems.
Related
Counts traffic and watches crews on bridges, rail lines and roads.
Watches crews, trucks and equipment at plants, well pads and tank farms.
Tracks haul trucks, excavators and crews across the pit.
Pilot
Tell us about your sites and cameras, and a ConductVision engineer replies with a scoping plan built around the endpoints above.
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