Hitachi Ltd. announced the launch of Lumada Inspection Insights on May 23 at the DISTRIBUTECH International event in Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Lumada Inspection Insights is an end-to-end portfolio of digital solutions for the inspection, monitoring and optimization of critical assets, according to a release. Lumada Inspection Insights, pioneered by Hitachi Energy and Hitachi Vantara, enables customers to automate asset inspection, support sustainability goals, improve physical security, and reduce risks and impacts related to storms or fires by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze photographs and video, including LiDAR, thermal and satellite imagery.
In April, the company launched its Mid-term Management Plan 2024, which set out its growth strategy and commitment to strengthening its digital and green portfolio, centered on the Lumada ecosystem. The company is also focused on growing its IT/OT/Products business through portfolio transformation.
The Lumada Inspection Insights portfolio addresses root causes of failures and forced shutdowns by deploying AI and machine learning to analyze a spectrum of image types, assets and risks. Predictive analytics assesses the risks to operations or environment, and organizations can streamline remediation before outages occur. Available as a comprehensive solution or standalone, the portfolio’s four core applications are Hitachi Image Based Inspections, Hitachi Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring, Hitachi Vegetation Manager and Hitachi Map.
“Becoming data driven is essential to accelerating digitalization and sustainability,” said Frank Antonysamy, Chief Digital Solutions Officer, Hitachi Vantara. “This collaboration across Hitachi creates better outcomes for businesses, broader society and our environment by harnessing data and AI to solve multiple operational and business challenges. Together, we can improve industrial asset reliability, prevent wildfires and accelerate global sustainability efforts.”
Lumada Inspection Insights features comprehensive, microservices-based capabilities that allow visibility of assets and factors such as current state, asset health and encroachment, in a “single pane of glass” actionable view. With these unified insights, organizations can improve safety, reliability and agility.
“Inspection, planning and monitoring are among the most critical tasks utilities undertake to maintain grid reliability and resiliency,” said John Villali, Research Director, IDC Energy Insights. He added, “Lumada Inspection Insights combines a variety of visual asset data types with advanced analytics and AI. This empowers utilities to improve decision making, optimize operations and as a result, achieve their reliability, safety, and sustainability goals.” You can learn more about this technology at Hitachi booth 2123.
