Atheer and EPRI Partner to Bring Augmented Reality to Utilities
According to a press release issued by Atheer, AREA members Atheer and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) are collaborating with energy companies on enterprise Augmented Reality evaluation projects. The focus of collaboration is enhancing productivity and safety for hands-on professionals in utilities. The announcement also mentions that the companies demonstrated the Atheer AiR platform in the EPRI DistribuTECH booth in Orlando, Florida.
In conjunction with their announcement, the AREA members were featured in a post on Forbes.com. The Forbes post goes into further detail about the partners and their use cases. The first utilities to participate in the EPRI-led research projects are Duke Energy, Consolidated Edison, UK-based EDF Energy and Korea Electric Power Corporation. EPRI expects to announce as many as 10 more utilities that will be participating in coming months.
EPRI spokesperson John Simmins, expects studies to pave the way for introduction of Augmented Reality into a wide range of use cases. A series of papers and recommendations around the introduction and adoption of Augmented Reality will be prepared as results of the research emerge over the course of the next 18 months.