The AI boom is well and truly underway and it could hold the key to unlocking a better future for several core industries. In a world that is getting more and more data-driven, artificial intelligence (AI) will be an important tool that will allow utility companies to make sense of the data flood. According to Seagate, worldwide data will grow 61% to 175 zettabytes by 2025. These are numbers that the human mind is not capable of processing at the same speed as AI.

The exponential growth of geospatial technologies in the last couple of decades has made available new instruments and capabilities for gathering and managing spatial data. The evolution of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), and remote sensing satellite imagery technologies have enabled the collection and analysis of field data like never before.

If California were a sovereign nation, it would rank as the world's sixth-largest economy. This is mostly down to the fact that it is home to hundreds of technology start-ups and multi-national companies that are leading technology innovators and digital disruptors.

There’s one big question that core industries with geographically distributed assets are constantly asking - How do we prevent vegetation encroachment incidents without a constant dependence on manual checking and reporting?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a concept that has held mankind’s attention and imagination for the better part of the last century. It has long been a dream for humans to create machines that can take decisions on their own. This dream is now a reality with the recent developments in the co-related fields of machine learning, deep learning and AI, which have been revolutionizing everything around us.

Utility Vegetation Management (UVM) is a field that has been crying out for technological disruption. Doing away with the dependence on manual techniques and practicing an approach of prioritized UVM is the need of the hour, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be the biggest change maker in this segment.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center, there were 46,706 wildfires in the United States of America in the period between January 1 to November 22, 2019, compared with 52,080 wildfires in the same period in 2018. Wildfires and the subsequent power outages caused by them are one of the biggest menaces facing modern America.