UC-350
Feeder Vegetation & Asset Condition Rank
Pulls condition data from inspection reports and imagery span by span, then ranks feeders on vegetation and asset risk to the trim budget.
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The Challenge
Vegetation causes more unplanned distribution outages than anything else, yet trim cycles are set by calendar. The condition evidence sits in thousands of unstructured inspection reports nobody owns.
How It Works
- Reads patrol and drone imagery, span clearances, written inspection reports and outage codes.
- Extracts condition findings from free text and scores each span on strike and failure risk.
- Issues the vegetation programme manager a ranked span work list priced to the approved budget.
What It Removes
- Calendar-driven trim cycles regardless of risk
- Manual reading of inspection report backlogs
- Re-flying spans already surveyed last season
Input Data RequirementsPatrol and drone imagery, span clearance surveys, written inspection reports, outage cause codes, asset register, trim budget and contractor rates
Output FormatRanked span work list with clearance, risk and price, a feeder-level risk map, and extracted condition records written back to the asset register
“Our condition data is real but it is written in thousands of reports nobody has time to read”