Noteworthy.ai

Noteworthy AI mounts computer vision cameras on utility trucks that are already driving the routes, and inspects poles and wires passively as they pass. Grid inspection today means dedicating crews to drive out with binoculars, a handheld camera, and paper, across a distribution network that spans nearly the entire country. It is slow, expensive, inconsistent, and so it happens rarely.

Meanwhile the grid is old, the storms are worse, and the droughts have made a defective pole into a wildfire. The distribution grid is where most outages start and it is exactly the part drones can't cover, being everywhere at once, low, and behind trees. Fleet vehicles already drive past these assets constantly for other reasons. Turning that motion into inspection data means the grid gets looked at continuously rather than on a cycle measured in years.