vHive

vHive is an enterprise software company whose platform digitizes physical infrastructure assets and turns the captured data into digital twins. The product is organized into three stages: Capture, in which the company's patented Auto-Discovery drone technology directs off-the-shelf drones to fly autonomously over a site and collect imagery without manual piloting; Analytics, in which AI and computer vision algorithms build digital twins in the cloud and provide inspection, space and inventory analytics for fault detection, early maintenance flagging and field efficiency; and Modeling, a 3D simulation sandbox where teams can add or remove equipment from a catalog, compare as-built against as-planned states, manage tenants, generate 2D CAD and export to IFC.

The platform targets vertical infrastructure and energy assets, with dedicated offerings for telecom towers, cranes, solar farms, wind turbines and electric utilities. Modeling features such as co-location planning and Tower Information Modeling — an application of BIM methodology to towers — are aimed at helping tower owners identify unused vertical space and mounts and accelerate approvals for new tenant equipment. A partner API connects the platform to customer asset management systems, allowing provisioned equipment to be compared against detected assets and equipment changes to be tracked over time through change detection.

The company has been described as a provider of software that lets enterprises deploy autonomous drone hives to create digital twins of assets such as cell towers, cranes and structures, serving Tier 1 enterprises undergoing digital transformation of their field operations.

Founding story

vHive was co-founded by Yariv Geller and Tomer Daniel, who according to the company met by chance in an elevator in a Boston building and subsequently conceived the startup in a home garage. The company dates its operations to 2016.

Business model

vHive licenses a turnkey enterprise digitization platform to asset owners and operators. Rather than supplying hardware, it provides software that operates commercially available off-the-shelf drones for autonomous capture, processes the resulting data in the cloud, and delivers analytics and modeling tools plus API integration with customers' asset management systems.

Enterprise B2B software sold to organizations managing portfolios of physical infrastructure assets; the site directs prospects to a demo request rather than publishing pricing.

Traction

vHive reports work with leading organizations including Phoenix Tower International, which used the platform in connection with the purchase of hundreds of towers across the Atlantic, and Bechtel. A third-party directory lists approximately 102 employees. Published customer commentary cites improved information quality and faster rollouts.

Latest developments

Recent company publications cover a Verizon digital twin deployment, rack- and U-slot-level visibility inside digital twins, utility-scale solar inspection economics, wind farm operations and maintenance, and the introduction of TenantHub, which packages tower site data into services for tenants.