OCTOBER 5, 2022 | In Person at T&D World Conference & Exhibition
Utility Analytics Institute and T&D World, with the help of our founding partner, Utiligent, are bringing utilities together to collaborate on challenges, as well as solutions that allow them to create more operationally efficient organizations and to build a successful business case around spatial analytics, helping utilities improve grid resilience and reliability.
Satellite, LiDAR, and high-resolution 3-D imagery data can be used to correct and augment information about physical assets and their conditions in the real-world environment. These images can then be uploaded into a centralized repository, where artificial intelligence (AI) models or human intervention determine and prioritize issues. This process allows utilities to solve complex location-oriented problems and better understand where and what is occurring on their networks and in the world.
Join this three-hour Accelerated Learning Forum focused on Spatial Analytics for a Resilient Grid to expedite your knowledge, learn from experts in this space, and collaborate and exchange information with other utilities to best set-up your business for success.
SPEAKERS
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Description |
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9:00 - 9:50am |
Seeing the Trees Through the Woods: The Evolution of Vegetation Management |
We'll discuss the evolution of our vegetation management program. The goals being to improve safety, reliability, and costs. To obtain this goal utilities must be willing to move from reactive maintenance, to cycle program or better yet a targeted program. We will share our thoughts and ideas with you about how our Cooperative did just that. We will also share how we use an advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI), developed by IBM, to determine tree species and densities on our system. Using an algorithm along with satellite data they can tell us, with about 80% accuracy, how close the vegetation is to the powerlines. Using the new Geiger-mode LiDAR technology the accuracy has improved to 95% accurate. This has allowed us to see the whole system and target the most immediate threats first. Using data from the Texas A&M Forest Service, we download the current Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) information and create maps that allow us to prioritize work by wildfire risk. George Leader, Vegitation Maintenance Manager - Pedernales Electric Cooperative Ryan Krause, Vegetation Maintenance Supervisor - Pedernales Electric Cooperative |
10:00-10:50am |
Understanding the Role of Spatial Analytics in Mitigating Wildfire Risk |
Faced with increasing climate risks including record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and unprecedented fire seasons, electric utilities must innovate to establish wildfire mitigation strategies that can keep up. Resilience is more important than ever, and some teams are turning to satellite vegetation intelligence to make sure they’re not fanning the flames. By combining local knowledge with satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, and fire risk data, utilities on the leading edge of wildfire risk mitigation are using spatial analytics to strategically prioritize the vegetation management work that safeguards their network from greatest fire risk. Key Takeaways:
Brian Lafayette, Head of Business Strategy, Overstory |
10:50-11:05am |
Refreshment Break |
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11:05-11:50am |
Session details coming soon! |
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