MUMBAI, India, April 17 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641043627 A) filed by Agni College Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on April 6, for 'cost effective autonomous drone for real-time fault detection in the distribution system.'
Inventor(s) include Anuja Prashant Diwan; Rishi Kumar S; Joshika A; Arulkumar K; and Nagaraja V.
The application for the patent was published on April 17, under issue no. 16/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The environment and activities are common mistakes in power distribution line, appear for example the conductor wire is lowered or broken, plant invasion, roses jumped the fence and foreign objects interference. For traditional line inspections like manual patrols or aerial surveys it is high cost, time-consuming and impossible to maintain continuous monitoring. Although research has sought out UAV-based inspection systems in the last few years, a number of proposed solutions are dependent upon expensive hardware platforms and high-end computer (OC). This limits their practical deployment in a distribution network. This project proposes that drone-assisted distribution line inspection framework is used to realtime monitor power distribution lines. In the proposed system, onboard Raspberry Pi 5 module streams live video from the drone to a Ground Control Station (GCS) laptop with inference and fault detection and fault analysis is implemented using computer vision algorithms. OpenCV-based image processing is e."
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