What challenges does the Transmission and Distribution industry face that we’re addressing? Even minor unchecked electrical faults can produce enough thermal energy to breakdown insulating components and hardware. Thermal material breakdowns leads to corrosion, structural weakness and conductivity, all of which can produce catastrophic life-threatening events and at best, costly damages that could have been prevented.
To Maximize your reliability standards and minimize the risk associated with electrical faults, Valmont UAS Inspection services provides utility maintenance inspections via drones. Valmont drones are equipped with IR thermal cameras that pinpoint temperature differences down to a fraction of a degree and providing early alerts to even the smallest of potential problems. Because the inspection is aerial, all angles of problem areas can be examined for a full 360 view, hard-to-access areas reached, and perform inspections with 4x greater efficiency over traditional methods while minimizing safety risk to personnel.
Drone Services tailored to improve your Transmission and Distribution Needs
Along with thermal images, detected anomaly locations are documented with radiometric data (relative temperature details), altitude, lat-long, nearest structure number, line and visible spectrum photographs for a full suite of information. With this detail in-hand, your team can plan with precision…you’ll know exactly what the problem is, how to repair, what materials, tools and personnel to deploy!
Utility Inspection Faults diagnosed
- Loose Jumpers and hot taps
- Failing switches
- Insulator degradation
- Fuse cut-out connections
- Regulators overtaxed
- Failing transformers