Autonomous Inspection for Energy & Utilities.

Regular condition monitoring and remote visibility across vast, dispersed networks of energy assets. Robots and drones run inspection missions across your substations, plants, and renewable sites, capturing thermal and visual data and reading gauges, while one team sees the condition of every asset in one place.

The Network Is Too Big to Walk

A modern utility runs assets across a footprint measured in regions, not sites: substations, generation plants, and renewable installations, much of it decades old and all of it critical to keeping the lights on. Inspecting that network by hand means sending skilled crews across long distances into live, high-voltage environments, asset by asset. It doesn't scale, and every visit puts a person near an electrical hazard.

Meanwhile, the assets are aging, the experienced workforce that knows them is retiring, and demand on the grid keeps growing. The gap between what needs inspecting and what can realistically be inspected widens every year, and in that gap, small faults can become outages that affect entire communities.

Korial helps close that gap. One platform directs robots and drones across your sites, applies the same inspection standard everywhere, and brings every finding into one trusted record, ready to flow into the maintenance systems your teams already use.

Aerial view of a utility-scale solar farm at sunset with a drone docking station at the edge of the array

Proven in Hazardous Environments, Built for Networks at Scale

Korial runs autonomous inspection in some of the most demanding industrial environments in the world, including ATEX Zone 1 hazardous areas, with more than a million inspections completed. The same platform brings that capability to the dispersed, high-voltage infrastructure utilities manage.

In the field, AI skills analyze every thermal image, read every gauge, and check every reading against its history as it's captured. When something crosses a limit, operators get a severity-ranked alert with the image and data behind it, so crews go where they're actually needed.

Because the intelligence sits in the platform rather than the hardware, you can add robots and drones from different manufacturers without adding another system to manage, and apply one standard across every site you run.

The result is one team overseeing the network from a single view, with fewer crews sent to dangerous, remote locations and more time spent on the decisions that keep the grid reliable.

Korial alerts ranked by severity across three sites, led by a thermal image of an overheating transformer bushing

“Keep the lights on. Keep your crews off the live equipment.”

In the Field

The inspection work once spread across crews and distances, now run as autonomous missions wherever your assets are.

Wheeled inspection device reading a transformer oil-level gauge in a substation, with a Korial reading marked normal
Thermal drone image of a solar array with one overheating module flagged by Korial
Quadruped inspection device beside a hydro generator, with Korial tracking a rising bearing temperature
Thermal image of three busbar clamps in a substation with an overheating phase B connection flagged as critical
Operator in a utility control room viewing the Korial deployment map on a wall screen

Substation Inspection

Robots and drones move through substations to capture thermal and visual data on transformers, switchgear, and busbars, read gauges and oil levels, and flag anomalies, reducing the need to send people near live high-voltage equipment. Routine yard checks become repeatable autonomous missions.

Solar Farm Monitoring

Drones survey photovoltaic arrays autonomously, using thermal analysis to surface hotspots and thermal variances across large installations, so crews go straight to the panels that need attention.

Generation Plant Inspection

Inside generation facilities, Korial inspects turbines, generators, and rotating equipment with thermal and visual analysis, catching the early signs of wear that come before unplanned downtime. Generation assets are inspected far more often than manual rounds allow.

Thermal Hotspot Detection

Across energized assets, Korial's thermal analysis detects overheating connections and abnormal temperature signatures before they cause a fault. Catching a hotspot early is often the difference between a scheduled repair and an outage.

Network-Wide Remote Visibility

Korial brings every deployment across your footprint, from substations to renewable sites, onto one map and into one view. Operators assess the condition of distant infrastructure without sending a crew to reach it.

The Impact of Autonomous Inspection in Energy & Utilities

When robots and drones take on routine inspection across the network, the results show up where they matter: in more assets inspected more often and fewer crews sent into harm's way.

1M+

Inspections Completed
Autonomous inspections completed across Korial's global deployments.

18

AI Inspection Skills
Inspections running in production today, from thermal analysis and gauge reading to gas detection and site safety checks.

100+

Global Deployments
Korial deployments in demanding industrial environments worldwide.

Customer Stories

Korial is proven in the field with deployments across some of the largest and most complex energy & utilities facilities worldwide.

E.ON
Energy & Utilities
E.ON

By decoupling intelligence from the underlying hardware, E.ON’s grid operators preserve hardware flexibility while gaining a repeatable blueprint for scaling autonomous inspection as grid renewal accelerates.

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illwerke vkw
Energy & Utilities
illwerke vkw

illwerke vkw AG needed to replace manual, weather-dependent inspection rounds in an environment where access is difficult, conditions are hazardous, and the cost of missed anomalies is high.

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