Ten years of measuring reality: thank you to our partners

A decade ago Unleash Live started with a straightforward idea, that the visual data operators already collect could tell them something they could act on. Ten years on, that runs across electricity networks, mine sites, wind farms, solar fields and traffic corridors in Australia and the United States.

None of it was built alone. As part of our tenth anniversary, we want to recognize the partners who built it with us.

Orb runs automated inspections across dispersed and hard-to-reach assets. Prism gives continous monitoring across concentrated, high-activity sites. AutoDock turns a drone dock on a customer's site into an unattended capture point feeding Orb.

The partners who make the capture possible

AWS and Nvidia have carried our cloud infrastructure across APAC and the Americas, and underwrites the ability to process thousands of assets in minutes instead of a six month cycle.

DJI and Skydio supply the docked hardware behind our AutoDock, turning a dock on a customer’s site into an automated Orb capture point. Skycharge hangars extended that further this year: through Remote Cockpit, an operator can now manage all dock, inspection and mission aspects from a remote browser.

Axis and Nokia anchor the fixed-camera and sovereign data networking layers that Prism runs on, with Nokia carrying our EMEA hardware relationships.

ExcelSense keeps Prism seeing where a normal camera cannot. Its ToughEye self-cleaning sensors shed dust, mud, grease and oil without water or compressed air, making fixed-camera monitoring workable inside crushers, chutes and transfer points where lens fouling used to rule it out.

Mitti by SafetyCulture connects detection to the safety and compliance workflows operators already run.

ABB and Hexagon have shaped how our computer vision fits alongside industrial systems that were running long before we arrived.

Gresco brings Orb and Prism to US utilities and cooperatives through its Unmanned Autonomous Solutions catalog, alongside the training, fleet support and program management that gets an inspection program off the ground.

Special recognition: Siemens

Siemens and Unleash Live are collaborating within the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem to help customers accelerate digital transformation through Industrial AI, combining Siemens' industrial expertise and platform capabilities with partner innovation and domain-specific solutions.

Siemens has spent well over a century building the automation that runs process industries, and operators trust it for that reason. We joined the Siemens Xcelerator ecosystem in August 2024 as the first computer vision company in it. Over the past year that relationship has widened further than any other in our partner base.

On the Marketplace. Orb and Prism are now listed on the Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace. Unleash Live was selected as one of the first sellers in Siemens’ US pilot, the first time Siemens has opened Marketplace sales in the United States. Siemens customers can find both in the catalog they already use to buy industrial software. The Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace helps customers discover the technologies, partners and use cases that address their specific business challenges, part of Siemens' shift from a traditional vendor model towards ecosystem-led growth.

Shaping the partner program. Siemens Australia and New Zealand invited Unleash Live onto its Executive Partner Conference Advisory Board, which helps set the agenda for Siemens IGNITE. At IGNITE in Melbourne, Hanno Blankenstein joined a panel on the future of AI in industrial settings alongside Peter Halliday, CEO of Siemens Australia, and Matthias Rebellius, a member of Siemens’ global Managing Board, moderated by Lars Weber of Siemens. Siemens positioned Industrial AI as the next stage in the evolution from electrification, automation and digitalization, with the emphasis on translating AI into practical business outcomes. The panel's conclusion was that trust, more than accuracy, limits adoption, and that as trust builds at the process level the buyer shifts from rolling out a physical inspection tool to optimizing productivity across an entire operation. Siemens sees ecosystem collaboration as what lets customers adopt Industrial AI safely, effectively and at scale, with partners as the force multiplier that turns innovation into reality. Herman van der Merwe, Siemens presales manager for AI, carried the same message from the manufacturer’s side: trusted data as the condition for any AI use case to succeed, with Siemens’ domain expertise and automation history as the foundation and ecosystem partners contributing the field data and analytics that put it to work.

Where this is heading. Siemens’ Industrial Edge architecture runs applications and connects devices on site, and Industrial AI is where both companies are pointed: AI working directly on industrial equipment and infrastructure. Orb now extends from capturing and analyzing inspection data to controlling the hardware that does the capturing. Drone Dock hangars are controlled with Unleash Live over Modbus TCP through a Siemens PLC, the same open protocol Siemens supports on Industrial Edge through its Modbus TCP Connector. For Siemens customers already running Industrial Edge, that gives a direct route from existing control infrastructure to automated inspection.

Selling together. Beyond the Marketplace, Unleash Live and Siemens teams are working side by side on joint sales engagements across utilities, mining and resources, with Siemens bringing its installed base and automation relationships to sites where Orb and Prism add the visual layer.

Taking it to COP31

The Unleash Live CEO has joined the SB COP31 Working Group with Siemens on Building Resilience for Cities, Infrastructure and Water, and has offered to co-chair its first stream, Digitization and Infrastructure. SB COP31 strengthens the private sector’s role in delivering the Paris Agreement, with work running through COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, on 9 to 20 November 2026. The key priority at COP 31 is Energy electrification and resilience - Unleash Live and Siemens provide world leading capabilities to achieve this target

Unleash Live's contribution is practical. A 2022 study applied Unleash Live computer vision to existing Sydney Harbour Bridge CCTV, counting and classifying vehicles to estimate CO2 emissions, and found that slower, congested traffic produced higher emissions per road kilometer than free-flowing traffic. Siemens featured the same example in its IGNITE presentation. It shows what operators can measure with cameras they already have.

Ten years in

What ten years of partnership has produced is a capability that none of these companies would have built alone, and that operators can now buy through channels they already use. Thank you to every partner named here, and to the customers who let us prove it on live networks.

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