{"id":140437,"date":"2022-06-12T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-expedites-digital-mapping-of-electricity-cables"},"modified":"2022-06-12T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:06:21","slug":"ai-expedites-digital-mapping-of-electricity-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/ai-expedites-digital-mapping-of-electricity-cables","title":{"rendered":"AI Expedites Digital Mapping Of Electricity Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-expedites-digital-mapping-of-electricity-cables2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s AI division is creating digital versions of \u2013 normally hand-drawn \u2013 maps of electricity cables, in a move that could benefit the global utility industry.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s DeepMind engineers have partnered with UK Power Networks which delivers electricity across London, the East and South East, to create digital versions of maps covering more than 180,000km of electricity cables.<\/p>\n<p>The work involves new image recognition software scanning thousands of maps \u2013 some of which date back decades \u2013 and automatically remastering them into a digital format for future use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s AI division is creating digital versions of \u2013 normally hand-drawn \u2013 maps of electricity cables, in a move that could benefit the global utility industry. The firm\u2019s DeepMind engineers have partnered with UK Power Networks which delivers electricity across London, the East and South East, to create digital versions of maps covering more than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}