A variety of industries utilize drone and LiDAR solutions in order to streamline their operations. The electrical utility business has discovered the various edges of using advanced technology to enhance site management.  As we expand our capabilities, Polosoft Technologies has developed its LiDAR service providing solutions for the growing wants in utility mapping. 

The Utility sector, spanning the production, transmission, and sale of electricity, gas, oil, and hydropower, is an extremely regulated business with several statutory obligations. From safety improvement, siting and abandonment of facilities, mandatory reliability standards through to environmental matters, there's a continuous need for the LiDAR mapping services and assessment of assets and corridors together with transmission lines, gas and oil pipelines, water conveyance infrastructure, and water pipelines.

The Use of LiDAR in the Utilities Sector:

ROW Modeling

Helicopters have been used traditionally for the process of capturing LiDAR data in order to spot and mark the different varieties of vegetation that may be presently invasive/ encroaching or might probably interfere within the short future. Mobile and UAV LiDAR is employed to model and measure ROW corridors that will be shared or adjacent to roadways or railroad tracks, pipelines, waterways, or even electrical lines from any other alternative utilities. LiDAR services are mostly used to measure the distances and in order to verify boundaries of existing infrastructure or future expansion plans if needed.

Communication Line Attachment Inventory

Distribution pole space is leased to 3rd party communications services providers like internet, cable TV,  and telephone companies, and is billed by “line attachment” per pole.  Periodic LiDAR surveys are necessary in order to verify the attachments to the pole and determine capacity for new services.  LiDAR services help capture the distance between attachment points on the pole and the very ground.  Project specs typically include tens of thousands of poles.

Distribution pole spaces are leased to third-party communications services suppliers like the internet providers, cable TV,  and telephone companies, and are billed by “line attachment” per pole.  Periodic surveys are needed to verify attachments and accurately determine the capability of the new services. LiDAR services help capture the distance between attachment points and the ground.  Project specs can generally include tens of thousands of poles.

Emergency Response

LiDAR and UAVs have a vital role in providing high value-added service when it comes to an emergency response involving the stand-by capability to perform post-storm and natural disaster assessment and remediation. The utilization of LiDAR technology contributes to fast service restoration. There's a robust potential for integration of accurate infrastructure databases with the change detection to rapidly confirm that the components needed can be replaced at the right time.

Mass asset surveys

As always, it’s important to maintain and keep a proper check upon the safety and reliability in order to build up an uncompromising infrastructure. However, the increasing number of connections to the utility poles, including the attachments which are connected without permission, make the job more challenging than before. Knowing the space available on a pole is crucial in creating timely decisions regarding whether or not the attachments be allowed. LiDAR services will provide complete data on every pole, including the configuration and height of all equipment and cables attached.

LiDAR Mapping Services have always been a key technology that utility industries have been dependent on for solutions. May it is telecom or geological or forestry, LiDAR services have always been a known door to knock upon. Industries outsource LiDAR data processing companies and the foremost thing is to find a perfect LiDAR company.

Not crowing but Polosoft Technologies has been a prominent name in LiDAR utility mapping in the USA and around the world. With years of experience, we have been serving the utility industry for years and playing a vital role in changing lives.