G2 Venture Partners led this round with participation from BGV, National Grid Partners, and additional strategic partners AiDash, a leading provider of satellite and AI-powered vegetation management
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The thorny issue of utility vegetation management has received significant press in the recent past, and for good reason. Vegetation-related power outages are on an all-time high as reliability and customer experience nosedive drastically.
To add to their woes, extreme weather events like storms, hurricanes and wildfires have posed massive challenges, pushing utilities to look for innovative technologies that can transform their O&M activities.
In a bid to enable utilities to better manage vegetation around their T&D lines and reduce costs, AiDash a San Francisco Bay Area-based leading satellite analytics company has launched an educational guide titled Vegetation Management Best Practices 2021. This e-book aims at educating vegetation management professionals about the latest technologies, such as satellite analytics and remote sensing, that can help them reduce vegetation-related customer interrupti
AiDash is working with several Fortune 500 utility companies to drive efficient vegetation management using satellite analytics
AiDash Intelligent Vegetation Management System is the world’s only satellite-powered vegetation management system deployed at scale for large utilities.” Abhishek Singh, CEO and co-founder, AiDash
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 5, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ 2020 was one of the most destructive years for electric utilities in the state. Last year saw a series of large-scale weather events that ravaged utility infrastructure and caused massive power outages affecting millions of people across the country. Trees damaged power lines and caused outages all along the way. Response and post-restoration work was a nightmare for utility companies.
AiDash is enabling intelligent vegetation management for utilities using satellite analytics
Instead of being an inefficient and reactive process, AiDash IVMS aims at making vegetation management more intelligent and planned – reducing costs by 20% and improving reliability by 15%.” Rahul Saxena, CTO, AiDash
SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, February 5, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The state of California has witnessed a series of blazing wildfires and large-scale power outages in recent years. But 2020 beat all records. According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the year 2020 was the largest wildfire year ever recorded in California history. During the 2020 wildfire season alone, 8100 fires have been recorded in the state.