It was the kind of message Connor McCluskey loves to find in his inbox. As a member of the product innovation team at FirstEnergy Corp. -- an electric utility serving 6 million customers from central Ohio to the New Jersey coast -- his job is to find technologies that open new revenue streams or cut costs. In the email, Chris Ricciuti, the founder of Noteworthy AI, explained his ideas for using edge computing to radically improve how utilities track their assets. For FirstEnergy, those assets include tens of millions of devices mounted on millions of poles across more than 269,000 miles of distribution lines. Ricciuti said his startup aimed to turn every truck in a utility's fleet into a smart camera that takes pictures of every pole it passes.