Unleash live’s latest evolution of our powerline assessment AI-App delivers faster, more precise analysis across the full spectrum of network assets. While widely adopted for distribution pole inspections, the enhanced AI models and workflows are designed to support broader utility infrastructure, from poles and crossarms to towers, conductors, vegetation, transformers and substations.
The continually evolving AI expands component detection, strengthens defect identification and improves the consistency of asset condition scoring. Combined with a more intuitive subject matter expert (SME) review experience and deeper integration pathways, utilities can now operationalize inspection data earlier, address critical issues sooner, automate more of the assessment process and rapidly customize model performance to your network and assets.
The Operational Challenge
Utilities capture enormous volumes of imagery. Manual review is resource intensive and inconsistencies can lead to missed or miscategorized defects, as well as delays in identifying critical, high risk issues. Unleash live’s enhanced condition assessment pipeline removes such bottlenecks, enabling teams to ingest imagery at scale, apply high-accuracy AI models, validate results efficiently and seamlessly export findings into asset management systems.
The Solution
Our continuously evolving AI models detect a comprehensive range of components and condition indicators across diverse asset environments and use cases. It delivers:
- More accurate identification of core components such as poles, towers, insulators, crossarms, conductors, transformers and other structural elements
- Enhanced fault detection and classification for these components including corrosion, cracks, missing components, burn marks as well as being able to assess vegetation threat levels
- The AI can be customized to apply fault severity settings based on your priorities
SME's are able to review and, if required, edit the AI’s analysis for accuracy against your specific assets and faults. Every correction and expert input becomes part of the continuous learning loop, allowing the AI to rapidly adapt and improve for each utility’s unique assets, environment and construction standards.
This creates a tailored, utility-specific model that increases detection accuracy over time and strengthens confidence in the resulting condition assessments.
These improvements reduce reliance on manual triage and give utilities rapid, consistent insights into asset condition across large corridors or complex sites.
Media Drive, Unleash live’s powerful media management tool stores and organises all imagery and the AI analysis output enabling teams to search, compare and audit assets over time providing the perfect tool for more effective predictive maintenance.
Reporting and Integration
Unleash live’s powerful analysis capability is enhanced by our flexible reporting capabilities, delivering insights in a format that supports your needs.
Customizable dashboards and reports provide both high level and granular insights into your network’s health. The different teams can use this information to spot trends, compare sites and identify anomalies.
Where required these reports can be designed to support compliance and regulatory requirements.
Additionally, Unleash live integrates directly into the most popular existing operations and asset management platforms, providing the insights in a format that is readily available across all the stakeholder teams.
Images and assets are grouped and classified based on what matters to your organization. With Unleash live’s range of integrations with third party platforms, findings can then be fed directly into asset management or work order systems for remediation.
Media Drive, Unleash live’s powerful media management tool stores and organises all imagery so teams can search, compare and audit the network over time.
ROI and Key Benefits
Efficiency:
- Lower inspection and labour costs
- Faster review with earlier fault visibility
- Audit-ready visual records
Consistency and Reliability:
- Fewer missed defects
- More consistent condition assessment across the full network
- Extended asset lifespans through more effective predictive maintenance
Proven Impact:
- Thousands of assets analyzed every day
- Automated nightly workflows
- Strong model accuracy improvements through continuous learning
- Enterprise-grade security
New Enhancements with SAM 3
Along with the improvements in the core utility AI processing capabilities, Unleash live has integrated support from Meta's SAM 3, a tool that allows subject matter experts to easily examine imagery and use plain text or visual prompts to generate precise annotations. These annotations can be used to improve the AI model for large scale AI condition assessment.
By integrating SAM 3 into the Unleash live platform we help teams to:
- Segment objects and apply annotation to identify specific components or faults in live video from drones, CCTV or IoT cameras
- Build custom prompts for unique hazards
- Accelerate dataset creation with assisted labelling
- Improve accuracy through quick fine-tuning on network-specific imagery
SAM 3 Demonstration
AI at the Edge
In addition to the standard Cloud-based image storage and AI processing configuration, the Unleash live platform can be deployed in edge and hybrid/edge environments depending on your needs.
Why Unleash live
Unleash live turns visual data into a strategic asset. The platform improves safety, reliability and operational efficiency. It reduces costs, increases visibility and supports the next generation of utility operations. The Powerline AI-App update brings faster analysis, stronger detection and cleaner workflows at scale.
