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How Edge Computing Is Powering Real-Time Drone Inspection of Power Lines
Electric utilities inspect hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission lines every year. Traditional methods — helicopters, climbing crews, binoculars — are slow, expensive, and limited. Now edge computing is changing that. In this episode, Lucas walks through how a Duke Energy pilot program in North Carolina uses drones equipped with onboard edge processors to detect hot spots, vegetation encroachment, and hardware corrosion in real time, without sending any data to the cloud. The drones analyze high-resolution thermal and visual imagery locally, flag anomalies immediately, and only…
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