Transmission line inspections are mandatory in North America. Traditionally helicopters are used for these inspections, but with helicopters the risk of accidents is significant and helicopters are costly to maintain and operate. Drone inspections dramatically […]
I thought it would be worthwhile to include here an expanded version of my contribution to a webinar that IQGeo presented last week with a provocative title that I think goes right to the nub […]
Vegetation is a significant source of outages for many utilities. In some regions from one quarter to one half of all outages can be ascribed to vegetation. Vegetation encroachment initiated the massive North American northeastern […]
At the SPAR3D 2017 conference in Houston, one of the interesting questions posed to a panel comprised of Greg Bentley (CEO of Bentley), Burkhard Boeckem (CTO of Hexagon Geosystems), and Shabtay Negry (Senior VP at […]
Software comes and goes, but a utility’s data model persists. A shared electric power data model enables electric power utilities to move away from incompatible point solutions toward tightly integrated solutions which are essential for […]
The Governors’ Wind and Solar Energy Coalition (GWSC), representing 20 U.S. state governors, both Democratic and Republican, sent a letter to President Trump presenting the benefits of renewable energy, arguing for a Federal commitment to […]
Gartner’s latest hype cycle identifies a new trend “citizen data science” that has important implications for the geospatial sector. At the recent Canadian Institute of Geomatics (CIG) Ottawa Branch Workshop on Big Data: What is […]
Reality modeling In the future, the deliverables at the end of a construction project will not only include the completed building itself, but also a digital “reality model” of the structure. The digital model will […]