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Energy, Utilities & Renewables

Reach every asset, from generation to grid

One inspection program for assets too dispersed to walk. Unleash Live automates the capture and grades what it finds, so aging networks and new renewable sites stay reliable without adding field crews.

  • Aerial inspection
  • Corridor & vegetation
  • Substation monitoring
Coverage across the grid

Inspect vast networks and growing renewable portfolios at scale, without adding headcount.

Orb inspects the network, wind and solar farms on a schedule. Prism monitors continuously on the cameras already inside your substations.

Where computer vision works, generation to grid

Distribution pole with cross-arms, insulators and pole-top equipment

Distribution

  • 01

    Cracked insulators

  • 02

    Cross-arms and pole-top equipment

  • 03

    Pole condition across the feeder network

Steel lattice transmission tower carrying long insulator strings

Transmission

  • 04

    Tower structure and corroded fittings

  • 05

    Conductors and spans

  • 06

    Insulator string damage

A transformer inside a substation, seen from above

Substations

  • 07

    Transformer oil leaks

  • 08

    Bushings and cooling plant

  • 09

    Switchgear and busbars

  • 10

    Perimeter and access control

Rows of solar panels on a solar farm

Solar farms

  • 11

    Panel hot spots

  • 12

    Cracked and damaged panels

  • 13

    Vegetation around the arrays

Wind turbine seen from above over ploughed fields

Wind farms

  • 14

    Blade leading edge erosion

  • 15

    Blade cracks and surface defects

  • 16

    Tower and nacelle condition

A powerline corridor crossing open country, seen from above

Right of way

  • 17

    Vegetation encroachment and clearance risk

  • 18

    Energized structures crews cannot safely approach

ROI & benefits

Faster, safer, more accurate inspections.

More defects found per cycle, fewer repeat site visits, and critical faults identified overnight, without adding field crews.

High performance AI

91% increase

F1-Score for precision and recall

Defect identification

300% increase

Increase in the first year, against helicopter-based inspection

Rapid identification

<24hrs reduction

Overnight identification of critical faults for prioritized remediation

Faster, safer inspections

40–60% reduction

Reduction in inspection cycle time against manual methods

Field team efficiency

25–40% increase

Inspection programs expanded without additional field crews

Figures from deployed utility transmission and distribution networks. Results vary by asset class, capture standard, and inspection cycle.

Why choose Unleash Live

Repeatable and scalable inspections

Aerial view of a powerline corridor with a structure marked for inspection

Inspection Planning

Define your poles, towers, spans, substations, turbines, and solar arrays, set capture profiles per asset class, and schedule once. Every mission inherits the same standard, giving you one consistent record across every feeder, corridor, site, and inspection cycle.

A transmission tower mapped into a flight plan with its captured images

Automated Flight & Capture

AutoFly, Unleash Live's mission control software, flies each mission to the same standard, capturing every conductor, insulator, pole-top, turbine blade, and panel at the same angle and altitude. Media syncs from the field, tagged to its asset and ready to analyze.

A drone dock on site, launching an inspection flight unattendedExplore AutoDock

Unattended Launch with AutoDock

On the sites you return to most, from substations to wind and solar farms, AutoDock launches the mission from a dock already in place, with no crew on the ground. Operators fly it from any authorized browser, or let the schedule run it. The capture standard and the record it writes to are the same as a crewed flight.

A transmission tower with detected faults listed beside itExplore feature

Analysis & AI Apps

Computer vision trained on utility and renewable asset classes reads every capture, detecting faults like cracked insulators, corroded fittings, blade defects, panel hot spots, and vegetation encroachment, and grading severity across the full dataset. Experts review the results, confirm the analysis, and refine the AI App's accuracy with every pass.

A list of custom-trained models with their latest detectionsExplore Mobius

Your Own Models with Mobius

Mobius is where your own team builds and governs detection models. Store captures, build datasets, and train against your asset classes, your construction standards, and the fault types your engineers already know, from pole hardware to blade surfaces, then ship the severity thresholds and event logic with the model rather than waiting on a separate build.

A live substation camera with condition readings beside itExplore Prism

Substation Monitoring with Prism

Inside the fence line the assets do not move, so they do not need to be flown. Prism reads the cameras already installed at your transmission and distribution substations, watching transformers, bushings, and cooling plant for the faults that develop between inspection cycles, and routing them to the same record as everything Orb captures in the field.

Asset Passport view showing network condition and trend

Asset Passport

One record per asset, holding its full history. Each inspection, detection, and action writes back to it, so you can see how your network and generation portfolio are trending across inspection cycles, and what's actually getting worse, not just what's most recent.

Orb findings flowing into SAP, IBM Maximo and other enterprise systems

Enterprise Integrations

Findings and work orders flow straight into SAP PM, IBM Maximo, and ESRI ArcGIS, with an API for everything else. Orb fits the EAM, ADMS, and GIS stack your teams already run.

Frequently asked questions

Which Unleash Live products does an energy operator deploy?

Most start with Orb across the dispersed assets: the poles, towers, spans, and corridors of the network, and the turbines and panels of your wind and solar farms, flown with AutoFly and launched unattended from a dock with AutoDock on the sites you return to most. Prism covers the fixed infrastructure inside the substation fence line, where cameras are already installed and the assets do not move. Mobius is for teams who want to build and govern their own detection models. All of it writes to one Asset Passport per asset, through one set of integrations.

Will this work with the drones and cameras we already have?

Yes. Orb is hardware-agnostic and works with major commercial drone platforms, so your existing fleet and pilots integrate without hardware replacement. Prism is camera-agnostic and connects to the fixed CCTV, PTZ, and IP cameras already installed at your substations.

Does this require cloud deployment?

No. Deployment can be cloud, on-premise, edge, or hybrid, confirmed during implementation against your security and data residency requirements.

How do we follow an asset's condition over time?

Through Asset Passport, one record per asset that holds its full history. Each inspection, detection, and action writes back to it, whether it came from an Orb flight over a line, turbine, or panel array, or a Prism camera inside a substation, so a condition can be followed from the first finding to the repair.

What happens when we need a detection that doesn't exist yet?

We work with you on new detection models that are built, trained, and deployed as AI Apps through Mobius, Unleash Live's development environment for building AI Apps. You can build against your own asset classes and fault types, or bring existing models and run them alongside.

What does a first deployment look like, and how long before we see something?

A first deployment is scoped to one feeder, one corridor, one wind or solar site, or one substation, not the whole network. You prove the result where it's measurable, then expand across sites and asset classes from the same deployment.

What enterprise systems does this integrate with?

SAP PM, IBM Maximo, and ESRI ArcGIS out of the box, with additional integration pathways available via API.

How does this clear our IT and cyber review?

Unleash Live is ISO 27001 and GCC certified. Role-based access control, encryption at rest and in transit, and full audit logging, with compliance documentation available on request.

See Orb in action.

Combine drone automation, computer vision, and geospatial data into one connected inspection workflow across your network and generation sites.