Expensive field inspections
Teams travel for days to inspect assets spread over thousands of kilometres, with helicopters and trucks driving up per-kilometre costs.
Autonomous inspection at scale
Autonomous mesh swarm
for powerlines and pipelines.
OVI TECH builds a self-organising drone swarm platform that inspects critical energy infrastructure without relying on LTE or Wi-Fi — even in forests, mountains, and remote regions.
Designed for energy utilities like Hydro One, Enbridge and TC Energy.
Problem
Utilities spend millions each year on slow, manual inspections of powerlines and pipelines. Single-drone flights cannot scale, and conventional tools fail exactly where failures are most costly — in remote terrain without connectivity.
Safety and access limitations
Crews work near high-voltage lines and unstable terrain. Many assets are inspected less often than required because they are simply hard to reach.
Fragmented and incomplete data
Single-drone missions provide narrow, disconnected views; insights are limited and often arrive too late to prevent outages or leaks.
Solution
OVI TECH orchestrates a cooperative swarm of drones as one autonomous inspection system. Our mesh network and swarm AI coordinate missions end-to-end.
Multi-drone missions
3–50 drones cooperate to cover long spans of powerlines and pipelines, reducing inspection time by an order of magnitude.
10× faster coverage
Mesh network instead of LTE
Each drone acts as a node in a self-healing mesh, relaying video and telemetry across the swarm — even with zero cellular coverage.
Edge anomaly detection
On-board models detect hotspots, damage and vegetation risks in real time, flagging only relevant events to engineers.
Technology
A layered architecture designed for reliability in harsh conditions: mesh communication, swarm coordination, edge processing and a cloud analytics layer.
Mesh communication layer
Multi-hop, self-forming and self-healing mesh with adaptive routing, extending operational range 10–20× versus single-link drones.
Mission coordination engine
Distributes tasks across drones, partitions areas, avoids collisions and continuously re-plans based on battery and link quality.
Analytics & reporting
Aggregates events into asset-centric dashboards, 3D reconstruction and exportable reports for maintenance and compliance teams.
Use cases
Built for energy utilities and infrastructure operators who must maintain visibility across vast, remote networks of critical assets.
Powerline inspection
Vegetation interference, damaged insulators, corrosion and overheating along
transmission and distribution corridors.
Pipeline monitoring
Early-stage leak detection, soil movement and unauthorised third-party excavation
along long-distance pipelines.
Substations & critical nodes
Thermal anomalies, loose connections and equipment health at high-value nodes.
Post-event assessment
Rapid assessment after storms or wildfires to prioritise repair crews and reduce downtime.
Contact
Interested in pilots or early access? OVI TECH is building with a small group of forward-looking utilities and infrastructure operators.
Write to:
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