Traditional approaches to transmission and distribution planning are no longer sufficient in the face of accelerating demand growth, extreme weather events, aging infrastructure, and a changing supply mix. Utilities need new strategies that leverage internal and customer side advanced digital capabilities, with a focus on breaking down internal and external stakeholder silos to meet these challenges head-on.
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Watch our webinar – Discover how Mitnetz integrated AI and drones into their grid inspection strategy
Watch this webinar to learn how German DSO, Mitnetz Strom (part of the E.ON Group), integrates AI and drones into its grid inspection programme.
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Watch our webinar – Disrupting the status quo: AI in utility operations
Watch this webinar to understand why everyone is talking about AI transforming utilities’ day-to-day operations and business as a whole. Learn what leaders really need to know about these fast-moving technological changes.
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Watch our webinar – How AI and predictive insights drive proactive wildfire mitigation for U.S. utilities
This webinar reveals how leading utilities are transforming their wildfire mitigation strategies through AI-powered solutions, predictive insights and digital grid asset management.
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Watch our webinar – Master your substation asset data: Expert insights and strategies revealed
Watch this webinar to learn how to improve poor quality and incomplete data for your substations and how you can achieve lower costs and a much faster response to faulty assets by relying on accurate, up-to-date data.
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Watch our webinar – Improving visibility of critical infrastructure
Watch this webinar to learn how WEB, the water and electricity utility of Bonaire, is overcoming the challenges of growth by proactively building a resilient, reliable power grid.
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Watch our webinar – Incorrect asset data – why it puts congestion management strategies at risk
Stedin, DSO for 2.3+ million customers in the Netherlands, realised that the asset data they used for their network calculations resulted in anomalies. Watch this webinar to understand Stedin’s approach to validating asset data for their 22,000 Medium Voltage substations.
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Watch our webinar – How to scale AI-powered inspections to protect energy infrastructure
For years, utilities have been using drones to increase the efficiency of routine inspections. Today, utilities can save even more money and time, while enhancing safety and asset management, with a more robust approach to virtual inspections. In our latest webinar, an expert panel explores a more integrated approach to virtual inspections.
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Watch our webinar – How AI & Virtual inspections changed operations at Xcel Energy
Inspecting transmission and distribution assets is tremendously time- and labor-intensive for utilities. Watch this webinar to learn the benefits and requirements of using a virtual inspection program and what AI is and isn’t capable of doing.
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Watch our webinar – How virtual inspections support capital projects
Watch our very engaging on-demand webinar with Xcel Energy on how AI plays a key role in the next generation of electrical infrastructure inspections.
Latest News & Resources
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Watch our webinar – Disrupting the status quo: AI in utility operations
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eSmart Systems Launches AI Studio: A New Era of Custom Computer Vision for Grid Inspection and Beyond
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eSmart Systems introduces Adaptive AI and Verify AI to strengthen grid reliability and risk mitigation
November 2025 – eSmart Systems has launched Verify AI, the first -
Watch our webinar – Beyond Traditional T&D Digital Strategies for a Resilient, Adaptive Grid
Traditional approaches to transmission and distribution planning are no longer