Smart-Grid Assets Inspections - Enabling the Smart Cities Infrastructure

The main enabler to Smart City paradigm is a robust and efficient power distribution system, which requires that this infrastructure need to be inspected regularly, making that maintenance paradigm change from reactive to predictive. This paper presents the business analysis process and its result - the SIAD-AERO Project. SIAD-AERO is a UAS composed of a set of different aerial platforms, decision-making system; command and control stations and an advanced artificial intelligence system that provides a complete toolbox to perform an autonomous inspection and detection anomalous. At the end of this paper, the result of impact business analysis is presented, as well as the description of the anomalous pattern recognition process used to perform the anomalies automatic detection for the power line inspections.

I. Introduction

A robust and efficient power distribution system with high capacity and low failure rates is an enabler for building smart cities [1], [2]. The smart grid is projected to support applications like intelligent traffic lights, public lighting systems, distributed surveillance system, smart billing among others, becoming a new paradigm of how an electric power service provider should attend its consumers.