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Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware's sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid.
Tim Barat loved being a lineman at an electric company in Australia, where he grew up, even in the chaos of the Black Saturday brushfires in 2009that torched over 1 million acres and left many without power or homes. Wires, poles, and transformers make different sounds depending on whether they’ve been hit by tree limbs, struck by cars, or buffeted by winds. Instead they’re waiting for mechanical perturbations — sounds and vibrations — that the company’s AI and signal processing software have been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid.
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