Ardenna is the leader in image processing, machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI) software for drone-based aerial inspection of railroad assets. Built upon seven years of R&D with tier-1 rail customers including BNSF, Ardenna’s platform, Rail-Inspector™, delivers objective and quantitative data, providing a comprehensive digital record of the rail infrastructure’s condition.

Rail companies benefit from both the rapid turn-around of inspection results and the monitoring of asset health over time, enabling data-driven maintenance decisions that reduce costs, improve worker and operational safety, improve regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of derailment.
 

AI capabilities include automatic detection of rail gage, broken rails, cross tie health, cross tie skew, cross tie separation, ballast coverage, fastener presence, joint gaps, and switch point health.