UK AI-powered asset management firm Keen AI and the National Grid have been awarded £355,985 ($477k) in Alpha-phase funding from Ofgem's Strategic Innovation Fund to develop a shared AI model for inspecting electricity network assets across the UK.
– Sebastian Moss
The project, dubbed Foundational Shared Model Operations (FoSMo), aims to standardize how network operators collect and analyze visual data from physical infrastructure such as pylons, cables, and insulators.
The funding will support the companies in their alpha phase deployment, which will bring together all three of the UK's electricity transmission operators, National Grid, SP Energy Networks, and SSEN Transmission, alongside distribution operators UK Power Networks and SP Electricity North West.
The companies claim that the system will anonymize data across the industry to train a single model that any participating operator can fine-tune for its own network. Keen AI will develop, maintain, and host the models.
