ChangeAerials provides drone software that uses time-sequential images and AI to detect infrastructure anomalies with greater accuracy and scalability than single-image based approaches. Their platform helps organizations reduce aerial inspection costs while improving asset lifecycle performance through actionable insights. By augmenting workforce intelligence with autonomous detection, ChangeAerials delivers increased efficiency and precision in asset monitoring.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Traditional infrastructure inspections are often infrequent, manual, and costly, leading to delayed detection of critical anomalies. Existing automated detection models struggle with accuracy and require extensive training data, limiting their effectiveness in comprehensive asset monitoring. This can result in unmitigated risks, decreased reliability, and increased operational costs.
Solution
ChangeAerial provides an end-to-end aerial inspection software solution that leverages time-sequential images and AI-powered change detection to enable regular infrastructure monitoring. The N-SUITE software bundle includes N-PLANNER for flight planning and N-SPECT for image analytics, facilitating repeat station imaging (RSI) for effective monitoring of infrastructure assets. By automating data collection and analysis, ChangeAerial helps organizations reduce inspection costs, improve asset lifecycle performance, and gain actionable insights into infrastructure health. The platform's advanced anomaly detection model identifies changes of interest with high accuracy, minimizing the need for manual review and improving the efficiency of infrastructure monitoring programs.
Target Audience
ChangeAerial targets organizations responsible for infrastructure monitoring, such as electric utilities and bridge operators, seeking to improve the accuracy, frequency, and cost-effectiveness of their inspection programs.
Features
- N-PLANNER: Flight and image capture planning software for uncrewed aerial systems (UAS), available as an add-in for ArcGIS Pro.
- N-SPECT: Web-based application that imports multitemporal RSI images and performs data curation for change detection.
- AI-based change detection: Automatically identifies changes of interest, such as defects on electric utility infrastructure.
- Cloud processing: Enables efficient analysis of aerial imagery.
- Custom viewer: Allows users to review AI change detection results and visualize details within images over time.
- FlytBase Integration: Integrates drones, drone docks, automated flight, and automated cloud-based data transfer with N-SUITE for full automation.
- High-accuracy GPS with RSI: Enables automated image collection with precision and efficiency.