Today, the maintenance of infrastructure elements such as bridges, roads or power poles is often carried out by human personnel. Many of these tasks are very time-consuming and sometimes dangerous.
The Innovation Sandbox project on infrastructure maintenance by drones created high-resolution drone images to identify cracks and damage on an airport runway through image recognition.
Requests for a demo appointment with IBM Research and the Canton Zurich, as well as requests for access to the high-quality image data, can be sent to isabell.metzler@vd.zh.ch.