Success Stories - Buzz Solutions

Field Notes

Transmission · Richmond, VA

Dominion Energy

The world’s biggest data-center-serving utility, with more load growth on the horizon. Dominion’s asset management program includes Buzz PowerAI for visual intelligence.

74Kimages in 3.5 hours
70%analysis time saved
47,000towers covered

“We were able to accurately identify all polymer insulators on thousands of structures in hours.”— Matt Rogers, Dominion Energy

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Distribution · Corpus Christi, TX

AEP Texas

44,609 miles of distribution line across hurricane and wildfire country, moving from a five-year inspection cycle toward one. PowerAI processes AEP inspection imagery at 0.6 seconds per photo.

88,000+images analyzed
0.6sper image
6 mosaved this season

“Image analysis is the Achilles heel of aerial programs. With PowerAI we can eliminate this bottleneck.”— Patrick Rackley, AEP Texas

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Distribution · Troy, AL

City of Troy

A city utility of 7,800 customers facing tornado, lightning, and hurricane seasons. Before PowerAI, that meant 1,118 hours a year of manual image review.

33,538images per year
1,118 hrsof manual review, eliminated
90%of failing components caught

“You can eliminate 90% of failing components before a storm ever gets there.”— Chase Collins, City of Troy

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Solar · St. Louis, MO

Ameren

Scaling utility solar from 510 MW to 2,500 MW by 2030 on the road to net zero. PowerAI analyzes drone imagery for hotspots, string outages, and cracks, mapped straight into GIS.

4.9×solar capacity
>75%time savings per site
20–40%lower O&M costs

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Transmission · White Plains, NY

New York Power Authority

The nation’s largest state public power utility, shifting inspections from helicopters to drones across 1,550 circuit-miles of transmission. Hundreds of thousands of images a year, analyzed in hours instead of months.

90%+accuracy in analysis results
70%manual analysis time saved
3workflow integrations: Esri, Maximo, Media Hub

“Asset images can be analyzed in hours or days rather than months.”— Director of Asset Intelligence Solutions, NYPA

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Substations · New York

NYPA × EPRI

A PowerGUARD pilot with EPRI: AI video analytics monitor NYPA’s own substation footage: intrusion, person-down, smoke and fire, insulator defects, and thermal feeds, alerting in near real-time.

7AI alert types on the live dashboard
0new cameras, runs on existing CCTV
24/7remote monitoring, expanding to more sites

“The pilot yielded excellent results, enabling us to explore additional use cases.”— Parikshit Daware, NYPA

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Transmission · EPRI Field Demo

Utility Image Inspection Consortium

A live A-to-Z demo for the consortium: a Dominion Energy pilot flew 9 structures in 20 minutes by Skydio drone, 138 images moved by encrypted API into PowerAI, and every detection landed in ArcGIS at the click of a button.

2,272detections labeled live
90%+detection accuracy
20 minto fly all 9 structures

“Seeing PowerAI being applied to improve asset health assessment in real time was very exciting.”— Electric Power Research Institute

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Distribution · South America

South American Utility

An automated pass over distribution imagery: damaged crossarms, pole-top defects, flashed insulators, and bird nests. Found, flagged, and mapped.

90%+detection accuracy
4defect classes automated

“PowerAI was recognized as an effective technical solution for automating distribution inspection image analysis.”— Utility Evaluation Team

Substations · Southern California

Southern California Utility

With substation attacks up nationwide, this utility put PowerGUARD on watch: real-time alerts for intrusion, equipment damage, and fire, running on existing cameras.

700+substations in the territory
24/7alerts: security, equipment, fire & smoke

“PowerGUARD has been a transformative solution, significantly altering how we respond to substation threats.”— Manager, Substation Maintenance Programs

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