Artificial Intelligence is being trained to assess all the power poles and wires in Auckland to better help lines company Vector with its maintenance.
The technology - GridAware - uses a combination of drones and helicopters to capture visual images of all the network lines, together with AI to look at those images, check their condition, and report back. Every 2 and a half years Vector estimates it will complete 170,000 inspections of its entire overhead network this way. Simon Mackenzie is the chief executive of Vector.
Photo: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
