Aerial inspections of tower structures and power lines reduce corrective maintenance costs and improve asset life, while avoiding hazardous manhours. Detailed visual imagery captured by drones allows for easier, safer, and faster identification and analysis of structural defects, hotspots, and other anomalies.
Drones in T&D
Today's Benefits, Use Cases, and Best Practices for Drones in Transmission & Distribution
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High Voltage Transmission Inspection
Improve grid reliability and reduce expensive tower repairs with close-up inspection of high voltage transmission structures.
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Distribution Inspection
Improve SAIDI and SAIFI with detailed Thermal and Visual Inspections for distribution infrastructure.
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Substation Inspection
Identify critical defects of energized equipment with visual and thermal scans.
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Vegetation Survey
Visual aerial inspection of trouble sites helps you prioritize tree-trimming.
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Emergency Response
Rapid deployment of pilot teams after catastrophic events enables quick assessment of utility structures.
Customer Success Story
Measure completed 50 miles of 69kV line inspections for customer AES. We captured both thermal and RGB imagery, delivering a higher level of detail compared to typical ground or helicopter patrols, while also avoiding the hazardous manhours involved with climbing or using buckets.
See the numbers for yourself:
NET SAVINGS: $25,000
SAFETY IMPROVEMENT: 1270 hazardous work hours avoided
INSPECTION TIME: 5-6 miles per day
OUR SOLUTIONS
Measure offers innovative solutions to meet your business needs.
Turnkey Aerial Inspections
We'll collect and analyze aerial data and provide an in-depth report you can use to drive business decisions.
Our experienced pilots and analysts have completed thousands of commercial flights across a wide variety of industries while maintaining an exceptional safety record.
DPL
Transmission Line Inspection
Transmission & Distribution
Inspect a 69kv transmission line for client DPL, owner of The Dayton Power and Light Company (DP&L), a regulated electric utility.
Indianapolis Power & Light
Utility Lineman Toolkit
Transmission & Distribution
Provide Drone Toolkits including training for employees at their facility through application-specific flight skills and safety proceedures.
AES
Warrior Run Plant Inspection
Transmission & Distribution
Inspect 59 towers of 138kV transmisison line and conduct a coal volumetrics analysis for AES-owned Warrior Run Coal Plant
Con Edison Development
Solar Inspection
Solar
Aerial inspections services for a top-10 solar asset owner, demonstrating actionable data deliverables and significant time savings compared to manual inspections.
