Top Innovators
Ankush Agarwal is Director of Innovation and Technology at Exelon. Blake Alexander is Senior Engineering Tech Specialist at BGE Exelon. Andy McCauley is Manager at BGE Exelon.
Exelon won the Edison Pioneers Top Innovator for Collaboration in Innovation award for its AI at the Edge for Drone Autonomous Inspections.
PUF's Lori Burkhart: Ankush, talk about the innovation and its impact.
Ankush Agarwal: This innovation is a proud milestone for Exelon and our team at Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE). We've pioneered an AI-powered autonomous drone inspection system, developed in partnership with Deloitte and NVIDIA, which transforms how we inspect grid assets.
By combining advanced computer vision, edge computing, and synthetic data modeling, our drones can autonomously identify and assess poles, transformers, and other critical infrastructure in real time — delivering actionable insights faster and more accurately than ever before.