Accelerating Power Grid Monitoring with Flying Robots and Artificial Intelligence

The digital revolution is expected to surpass all previous economic transformations in scale, scope, and complexity. Digital technologies are making electrical grids more connected, reliable, sustainable. Several efforts have been made revamp the electric grid modernize century-old systems. In near future, we expect see a power grind monitoring with incredible results through artificial intelligence big data, drones, among others. business opportunity for using drones energy sector impressive, although very few companies joined its implementation. drone allows safe remote overflight of high voltage lines. They can be deployed detect, inspect, diagnose defects line infrastructure. this article, provide state art smart monitoring. We demonstrate propose an architecture based on Faster R-CNN detecting ice accretion Finally, shed light opportunities future trends these emerging that guide research directions.