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Use case · Energy

AI Pipeline Monitoring

AI that watches SCADA data, aerial imagery, and inspection records together, and flags the anomalies that precede leaks and ruptures.

The approach

Pipeline operators drown in monitoring data that no team can watch in full: SCADA pressure and flow readings, right-of-way flyover imagery, inline inspection runs, and corrosion surveys, each living in its own system. We build AI pipeline monitoring that fuses them. Anomaly models learn the normal hydraulic signature of each segment and flag the pressure and flow deviations that precede leaks. Vision models scan aerial and satellite imagery for encroachment, ground movement, and unauthorized digging near the right of way. Integrity models combine ILI and corrosion data to rank segments by risk. Alerts arrive with the evidence attached and calibrated severity, so control rooms act on them instead of muting them, and every alert and response is logged for PHMSA and internal audit.

01

Connect SCADA historians, ILI runs, corrosion surveys, and aerial imagery into one monitoring layer per pipeline segment.

02

Learn each segment's normal hydraulic signature and flag pressure and flow anomalies consistent with leaks or theft.

03

Scan flyover and satellite imagery for encroachment, exposed pipe, and ground disturbance near the right of way.

04

Deliver ranked, evidence-backed alerts to the control room and integrity team, and log every alert and response for audit.

What it does

Hydraulic anomaly detection

Learns normal pressure and flow behavior per segment and flags the small persistent deviations that rule-based thresholds miss.

Right-of-way vision

Analyzes aerial and satellite imagery for third-party digging, encroachment, and ground movement, the leading causes of pipeline strikes.

Integrity risk ranking

Fuses ILI, corrosion, and coating survey data to rank segments by failure risk so dig programs go where the risk actually is.

Calibrated alerting

Severity-scored alerts with the underlying evidence attached, tuned to keep false alarms low enough that operators keep trusting them.

A midstream operator cut false leak alarms by 70 percent while detecting two genuine anomalies days before conventional thresholds would have fired.

Questions, answered

Conventional CPM systems use fixed thresholds that force a trade-off between sensitivity and false alarms. Learned per-segment baselines catch smaller, slower deviations at far lower false-alarm rates, and the vision layer covers third-party damage that SCADA never sees.

No. It gives them ranked, evidence-backed alerts instead of raw noise. Response decisions stay with the control room, and every alert and action is logged.

Yes. The audit trail documents monitoring coverage, alert handling, and integrity decisions, which supports regulatory reporting and post-incident review.

In your environment, alongside your historians and OT network, designed with your OT security team so the monitoring layer never becomes an attack surface.

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