Percepto launches Axion AI platform to unify inspection data analysis
THE SO WHAT
Inspection is shifting from drone-as-a-service to data-ops — Percepto’s hardware-agnostic Axion is a bid to own the analytics layer across mixed fleets. If you run distributed industrial assets, the decision is whether to centralize inspection intelligence on a single platform now or risk fragmented models and data later.
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