Integration Details
Through a simple integration between the systems (all you need is a Skydio API Key), customers can easily use Skydio and Power-I to remotely inspect substations, automate data review, generate inspection reports, trend data, send customizable alerts, and streamline data flows to 3rd party platforms such as historians, asset management, and asset performance systems.
What this integration solves for
Complete Visual Analytics Suite for Substation Asset Inspection & Monitoring
- Transformers / Transformer LTC
- Circuit breakers
- CVT/CCVT/PT/PVT
- Regulators
- Capacitor bank
- Motor operators
- Station perimeter
- Control house
- Capital spares
- Oil containment areas
- Animal mitigation
Improve Reliability, Risk Reduction
- Optimize health and maximize operational lifetimes of assets with condition based maintenance.
- Reduce risk of catastrophic failures, reduce repair costs.
- Reduce outage frequency & duration (improve SAIFI, SAIDI metrics).
- Reduce utility revenue losses, customer revenue losses.
- Avert government fines and penalties.
- Stream data flows to data historians, asset management, and asset performance systems to enable smarter intervention and CAPEX planning decisions, helping to avoid supply chain challenges, component scarcity, and lead-times.
Operational Excellence, OPEX Cost Reduction
- Automate inspection field data collection, data review, record keeping, asset digitization & work order generation.
- Combat imbalance of aging infrastructure, grid expansion & labor shortages.
- Increase employee productivity & efficiency by optimizing use of human resources and skills.
- Improve knowledge transfer, training tools, & job satisfaction for employees.
- Enable remote operations (ie. Verify CB SF6 pressure pre-remote switching, verify nominal contact post-switching).
Improved Safety, Compliance & Security
- Reduce employee travel in dangerous conditions
- Reduce employee exposure to on-site hazardous environments.
- Ensure equipment is grounded.
- Ensure use of PPE.
- Ensure inspection requirements are met, ensure employee safety compliance.
- Deter, detect, delay, deny Intrusion attempts.
- Environmental impact reduction
- Reduce truck rolls.
- Early leak detection.