Burt County Public Power is pursuing new technologies that will better support maintenance programs for their overhead infrastructure. Burt County PPD joins Snappy Workflow’s beta program this summer season for large scale grid optimization. Utilities like Burt Co PPD are looking for ways to cost effectively optimize the system.
Thermography is a non-contact way to identify failing components so proactive repairs can be made. Until now technology limited using thermography at scale without negatively impacting rates or limited personnel during peak season.
The team at Snappy Workflow is developing a vehicle-based sensor and software package to enable utilities a real-time snapshot of hundreds of miles of powerline in just a day. When scaled properly, this will directly improve the maintenance programs at the utility, with minimal cost vs traditional methods.
“Electric Utilities have been digitizing their field mapping for many years. Snappy’s data processing program will organize their data that is easy to use, and integrate with their existing GIS/Mapping software and programs in a fraction of the time” said Curtis Kayton, Snappy’s President.
Here is an example of how inspectors are trying to inspect distribution line from a vehicle.