AI Case Study
EDF Energy matches physical components of nuclear power stations with digital instruction manuals using deep learning
EDF Energy's team in France has developed deep learning models, which are capable of labeling components on the inside of power stations in order to digitally match the physical components to digital instruction manuals.
Industry
Energy
Other
Project Overview
"An EDF team in France has been using AI to create digital replicas of nuclear power stations and digitally connect physical components with digital instruction manuals.
By taking laser scans and panoramic images of the inside of the power stations EDF can start to pinpoint these 30,000 components way faster than a human could. Going through ten billion pixels of information collected in those images to find those 30,000 labels would have taken four months per power station if done by humans, Ferguson estimates.
So EDF developed some deep learning models to 'be able to identify those labels among those images and pinpoint them. That took about three weeks of work, so a significant saving of time and effort,' Ferguson said."
Reported Results
Results undisclosed
Technology
"EDF developed some deep learning models to 'be able to identify those labels among those images and pinpoint them'."
Function
Operations
General Operations
Background
"EDF Energy is one of the biggest energy suppliers in the UK with a network of nuclear, coal and renewable power stations." David Ferguson's team, head of digital innovation at EDF, is "responsible for designing proof of concepts 'to demonstrate the value and potential of new technologies. It is our job to move fast and break things, in a controlled environment', he said."v
Benefits
Data
laser scans and panoramic images