01 · ENERGY & UTILITIES
Vegetation risk triaged across 18,000 circuit miles without adding headcount.
- Organisation
- Investor-owned utility
- Scale
- 18,000 circuit miles
- Products
- GeoSmart · FieldLink
The problem
Vegetation management ran on a fixed four-year cycle, so crews trimmed spans that did not need it while genuinely hazardous spans waited. Imagery existed but nobody had time to look at it, and the inspection backlog grew every storm season.
What we did
- Ingested existing satellite and LiDAR captures alongside the utility's own GIS circuit model
- Trained canopy-encroachment models against three seasons of historical trim records
- Ranked every span by strike probability weighted by customers downstream
- Pushed the ranked work list to crews as dispatchable jobs with evidence attached
90%
reduction in manual imagery review
3x
faster inspection cycles
27%
more spans cleared per crew shift