Beyond the Drone: Percepto Launches AI-Powered Platform for Infrastructure Inspection
Israeli drone automation company Percepto has unveiled a next-generation inspection software platform that integrates AI into energy infrastructure inspection workflows. The announcement drew significant attention at InnovateEnergy Week in The Woodlands, Texas, where oil and gas and electric utility representatives highlighted growing demand for solutions that can transform raw inspection data into actionable intelligence.

Highlights
- Percepto launched a next-generation AI-powered inspection software platform at InnovateEnergy Week in The Woodlands, Texas.
- The platform integrates AI anomaly detection and risk assessment into the full drone inspection workflow, from data collection to structured report output.
- The release marks a strategic shift for Percepto from drone hardware manufacturer to end-to-end AI inspection software provider.
- Target applications include oil and gas pipelines, electrical transmission towers, wind farms, and refineries — all sectors where manual inspection data review can take days or weeks.
- Multiple electric utility and oil and gas company representatives at InnovateEnergy Week expressed strong interest in the platform's AI analytics capabilities.
Beyond the Drone: Percepto Launches AI-Powered Platform for Infrastructure Inspection
By Jim Magill, Contributing Editor, DRONELIFE
For energy companies, generating actionable data is nearly as critical as extracting millions of cubic feet of natural gas or producing millions of watts of electricity every day.
At this week's InnovateEnergy Week energy technology conference in The Woodlands, Texas, representatives from oil and gas companies and electric utilities gathered to address a central challenge: how to convert vast volumes of field inspection data into meaningful, decision-ready intelligence that can drive maintenance operations.
Percepto Unveils Next-Generation Inspection Software Platform
Drone automation solutions leader Percepto chose this moment to launch a new software platform designed to meet the industry's urgent need for smarter data processing. The platform's core concept is the deep integration of artificial intelligence across the entire infrastructure inspection workflow — enabling visual imagery and sensor data collected by drones to be automatically processed through AI models for anomaly detection and risk assessment, ultimately producing structured inspection reports.
A Strategic Shift from Hardware to Software
The new platform marks a significant strategic pivot for Percepto, moving the company's focus from drone hardware manufacturer to end-to-end AI inspection software provider. This means energy companies will be able not only to conduct routine inspection missions using Percepto's autonomous drone systems, but also to dramatically reduce the time between data collection and actionable insight through the platform's AI analytics capabilities.
The Inspection Pain Points Facing the Energy Sector
For large-scale energy infrastructure — including oil and gas pipelines, transmission towers, wind farms, and refineries — regular inspections are essential to safe operations. However, traditional inspection methods are labor- and time-intensive, and the sheer volume of imagery and sensor data generated often requires days or even weeks of manual review and filing.
Percepto's new platform targets exactly this bottleneck, using AI-driven automated processing to help energy operators achieve faster, more accurate monitoring of asset health.
Industry Resonance at InnovateEnergy Week
Attendees at the conference broadly agreed that, under the twin pressures of the energy transition and aging assets, maintaining critical infrastructure at lower cost and higher efficiency has become a top priority for major energy companies. The launch of Percepto's new platform sparked lively discussion on the conference floor, with multiple utility representatives expressing strong interest in its AI analytics capabilities.
This article originally appeared on DRONELIFE. All rights reserved.
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