Since 2013, Sharper Shape has been using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automated aerial data collection to transform how utilities gather, handle, and analyze data to assess the actual field condition of their transmission and distribution assets.

Sharper Shape’s automated inspection process uses the Sharper CORE real-time Living Digital Twin (LDT) solution, which serves as an asset data management system, visualization and inspection platform, and planning and reporting tool to increase the effectiveness of utility preventive maintenance programs, enable remote asset inspections and assessments, identify and validate asset types and locations (and associated systems of record), and support field planning and assignments (including outage restoration).

Delivered on a cloud-based, SaaS platform and supplemented by data collection and work package execution services, Sharper Shape’s technology is powered by an ever-expanding library of advanced AI/ML algorithms.

• Subscription-based fee structure for analytics platform
• Per project fee for data collection (eg, drone-based Lidar scanning)

• Proprietary hardware solutions for manned and unmanned aerial inspections
• Proprietary software for managing and analyzing the data collected from aerial inspections

• Asset Management
• Vegetation Management
• Overhead asset inspection (towers, poles, conductors, transformers, etc.)
• Preventative O&M/predictive failure analysis
• Network model validation/correction
• Actionable reporting and dashboards
• Drone service provider management