Power Line and Utility Network Inspection

Finds faults and vegetation risks along power lines and utility networks from drone, aerial and satellite images.

vision geospatialunverified

0named models

694candidates

1deployments

1in Indonesia

Named Models

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Who Runs It

production, 1

PT PLN (Persero) with Esri IndonesiaCountry: IndonesiaSmartDVM vegetation risk management for distribution networks: satellite imagery and GeoAI on ArcGIS predicting vegetation likely to cause outages and prioritising pruningVendor: Esri IndonesiaproductionDate–About 85 percent accuracy against manual field validation (vendor-reported); case study date not statedEvidence: company statementConfidence: lowSource: esriindonesia.co.id

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Candidate Models

COCO val

A general benchmark for this model class, not a test on this use case. Object detection and segmentation AP (mAP50-95). Higher is better. Showing 10 of 11.

RF-DETR 2XLRoboflow vendor-reported60.1

YOLO26xUltralytics vendor-reported57.5

YOLO26lUltralytics vendor-reported55

D-FINEUniversity of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center independent55

RF-DETR MRoboflow vendor-reported54.7

YOLO26mUltralytics vendor-reported53.1

RF-DETR SRoboflow vendor-reported52.9

YOLO26sUltralytics vendor-reported48.6

YOLO11Ultralytics independent48.3

RF-DETR NRoboflow vendor-reported48

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YOLO26lUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

YOLO26mUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

YOLO26nUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

YOLO26sUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightsruns on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

YOLO26xUltralytics, visionReleasedJan 2026open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

RF-DETR 2XLRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

RF-DETR MRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

RF-DETR NRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

RF-DETR SRoboflow, visionReleasedNov 2025runs on edgehas scoreslast 18 months

SAM 3Meta, visionReleasedNov 2025open weightshas scoreslast 18 months

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Use Case

Industry: energy and mining
Model classes: visiongeospatialunverified
Benchmarks or datasets: not in the notes
Regulatory notes: Surat Edaran Menkominfo 9/2023 Etika Kecerdasan Artifisial, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika (now Kementerian Komunikasi dan Digital)Power line and utility network inspection is an AI-based service run by an electronic system operator, and the circular asks such operators to build and use AI on the values of inclusivity, transparency, humanity and security.
UU 30/2009 Ketenagalistrikan, DPR and President of the Republic of Indonesia (administered by Kementerian ESDM)Power line and utility network inspection supports electricity supply, which this law regulates, including the duties of licence holders to supply reliable power and serve consumers.

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Links

IndustryEnergy and Mining15 use cases, 17 deployments

Use CasePower Line and Utility Network InspectionEnergy and Mining

Modelsnone recorded

Who Runs It

PT PLN (Persero) with Esri IndonesiaIn production

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Deployments 1

PT PLN (Persero) with Esri IndonesiaSmartDVM vegetation risk management for distribution networks: satellite imagery and GeoAI on ArcGIS predicting vegetation likely to cause outages and prioritising pruning, Indonesia

Sources

deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/... https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/consulting/2026/ai-use-cases-eri-2026.pdf

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Power Line and Utility Network Inspection", https://aurion.semai.id/usecases/em-power-line-inspection/, records of October 2026.