Halden, Norway, March 12, 2026 (Globe Newswire) — eSmart Systems, the market leader in computer vision for utility infrastructure, today announced that AI studio From eSmart Systems: a full-stack AI development and deployment platform that makes its proprietary computer vision intelligence available as a modular, API-first service for the first time.
AI Studio enables utility teams, technology companies, and inspection professionals to build, tune, and deploy custom AI models to their unique operational standards and asset definitions without the need for an in-house machine learning team.
At the core of AI Studio is eSmart Systems’ patent-pending Adaptive AI technology. It is a performance-enhancing methodology from few-shot learning to generate working detectors and classifiers from a small number of images in minutes, adapting to new definitions and edge cases in real-time without traditional retraining cycles. The result is Up to 35 percentage points more accurate than competing multi-shot technologies Achieve up to 99% accuracy across all benchmarks without retraining.
Solving a decade-old barrier to utility AI adoption
For utilities, the potential of AI-powered grid inspection has long been limited by fundamental challenges. General-purpose computer vision models are not built for the diversity of real-world infrastructure assets, regional inspection standards, and operational requirements of power transmission, distribution, and substation workflows. Customizing AI to meet these standards has traditionally required significant in-house machine learning expertise, a resource that most utilities and inspection teams lacked.
AI Studio completely removes that barrier.
“We’ve spent more than a decade building infrastructure-grade AI for utilities, and AI Studio exposes that intelligence as a platform.” Henrik Bache, eSmart Systems CEO. “This allows teams to frictionlessly customize and scale while maintaining the governance and reliability needed for critical infrastructure.”
Three features power your end-to-end model development platform
AI Studio is built around three core capabilities and is accessible through both a web-hosted interface and a fully documented API at ai.esmartsystems.com.
- model builder: Create new custom models from a small number of sample images using adaptive AI. No annotation pipeline, no training runs, and no ML expertise required. The model continuously adapts in real-time as definitions evolve or edge cases emerge.
- model garden: Access to the eSmart Systems library of production-ready detectors, classifiers, and pipelines built on millions of utility images across power transmission, distribution, and substation domains. Continuously refined from real-world implementations across more than 75 utilities worldwide.
- pipeline builder: Visually create multi-step vision workflows (Detect → Classify → Measure, etc.) using the drag-and-drop editor. Enables instant API deployment and full input/output transparency for audit and compliance purposes.
All models and pipelines in AI Studio expose dedicated API endpoints designed for direct use by AI agents and integration into existing inspection platforms, engineering systems, drone ecosystems, and enterprise workflows.
Built for the Agentic AI era
AI Studio was designed from the ground up as an agent-first, API-based platform. This reflects eSmart Systems’ belief that enterprise software is moving away from pre-built user interfaces to dynamically assembled workflows powered by AI agents.
“What makes adaptive AI truly unique is that it removes the dependency between model performance and retraining cycles. When a utility’s definition of a defect changes (and it always does), the model is updated in minutes instead of weeks,” he said. Erik Åsberg, CTO of eSmart Systems. “This completely changes the economics of deploying AI in the field.”
A defensible platform built on unique intelligence
eSmart Systems’ competitiveness is based on three pillars that typical computer vision and infrastructure model vendors cannot match: One is over 10 years of unique, contextualized utility imagery and asset data built across over 75 utilities around the world. Patent-pending adaptive AI that eliminates customization barriers without retraining. and a platform architecture designed to absorb and leverage improvements in frontier AI models over time.
The result is an AI platform that enables immediate value and continuous improvement through rapid iteration, with performance never before seen in this type of computer vision application. An AI platform that can accommodate the Agentic AI reality we are in today.
About e-smart system
eSmart Systems is a market leader in computer vision AI for utility infrastructure. Founded in Norway and with operations around the world, eSmart Systems serves more than 75 power companies across power transmission, distribution and substation inspections, helping them reduce operational risk, improve reliability and accelerate the transition to AI-powered grid management. Its flagship product, Grid Vision, industrializes AI-powered inspection at enterprise scale. AI Studio is eSmart Systems’ next-generation platform that delivers unique AI capabilities as a modular, API-accessible service to utilities, technology companies, and inspection professionals around the world.
For more information, please visit ai.esmartsystems.com or esmartsystems.com.
