Utility & powerline inspection

Inspect every pole for your utility client. Keep their bucket trucks home.

Put the poles on the map, assign the work to your crew, track each structure's status in the field and deliver the files, all on one project.

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Utility-pole inspection footage from a working drone operator.

Poles on the map

Plot the line, pole by pole

On a pole or corridor mission, the Poles panel replaces the mapping tools. Click the map to add each pole, or import them from a KML or KMZ of points, then connect the midspan lines between them. Corridor missions can generate per-pole orbit passes, with the radius, photos per ring, altitude and gimbal angle you set.

  • Add poles on the map or import a KML/KMZ of points
  • Midspan lines connected between poles
  • Per-pole orbit passes as KMZ legs for the controller
The SkySuite planner on a 4.2-mile pole corridor mission: the Poles panel with Add pole, Connect, Import and CSV, per-pole pass settings for radius, photos per ring, altitude and gimbal, and Generate per-pole passes beside the route settings.

Assign it out

Each mission to a named pilot

Open the project in Office › Work › Field › DSP and click Team. Pick a pilot for each mission from the people on the job, or draw a whole crew from your roster in Office › Work › Field › Crews. The pilot sees the work on their own list straight away.

  • A pilot picked for every mission
  • Crews drawn from your roster for the job
  • Invite a contract pilot by email from the same box
The Team box on the demo project Distribution pole inspection — Feeder 12: shared multi-user project, two active crew members, and the corridor mission assigned to Maya Okafor.

In the field

Status for every structure, from the truck

The pilot opens the mission from Field › Missions › Assigned to me on their phone, with the site, aircraft and flight brief. In the Poles panel each structure is marked To do, Done, Issue or Refly as the day goes, and the field report exports as a CSV for the office.

  • To do, Done, Issue or Refly on each pole
  • The pilot's own mission list on the phone
  • Field report export as CSV
Field › Missions › Assigned to me on a phone: the pilot's assigned missions, each with its project, capture type, assignment date, flight zone, shot count and aircraft.

Crews

See every crew and what they're flying

Active crews show each job's people, their status and the missions they're flying, including the Feeder 12 pole crew. Wrap a crew when the job is done; the work stays on the project.

  • Crews by job, with status
  • Missions per crew
SkySuite active crews: each project's crew drawn from the company roster, with its status, the pilots flying and the missions assigned.

The capture

Overhead detail your client can use

Fly the angles and shot list your utility client requires, from the top of the pole down to the hardware.

  • Pilot-selected capture settings
  • Your client's shot list
Looking straight down on a wooden utility pole top: the crossarm hardware, insulators and conductors fanning out over the grass.

Hardware

Crossarms, insulators and conductors in frame

Close overhead passes put the crossarm and its hardware in one shot, ready for your client's inspector to review.

  • Per-pole orbit passes for close detail
  • Close-up frames ready for your client's inspector
A close drone shot of a wooden pole: suspension insulators, a deadend clamp and lightning arresters on the crossarm.

Client review

Deliver the files for inspection

Share the imagery and survey products through the project's client link. Review the recorded metadata before using it for a client requirement.

  • Inspection files on one client link
  • Project, mission and pilot kept with the files
A distribution line from the air: poles, crossarms and conductors against a blue sky above the tree line.

Stop chasing poles in a spreadsheet.

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