Energy helps to power artificial intelligence, but we don’t talk about the importance of AI powering energy. That refers to the data sets we need to be able to drive more production with the same infrastructure, with less downtime and fewer dangerous incidents, and the ability to reduce emissions. Robots and AI from the Gecko landscape have been able to uncover the ability to create data sets that never existed before, about things in the physical world. Gathering information and data sets on how assets are performing helps to drive the ability to optimise how every single component and asset that powers our energy sector, actually works. It’s the ability to create more with less, and it’s the ability to ensure that we never have a catastrophic failure.

Every cent counts in a barrel. The inability to gather information and then digitise it reduces the ability of tools like AI algorithms to be able to drive better insights. So the ability to gather tens of millions times more data, and digitise it with robots about the health and performance of critical assets allows our AI models to be able to extend the useful life, predict where problems are going to occur, and optimise how those assets are able to perform.