Utility Asset Management Resources

Utility Inspection Requirements in 2026: What Co-ops, Municipals, and Mid-Size Utilities Now Have to Prove

Texas pole plans due Jan 1, 2027, nine wildfire safe-harbor states, NERC at 100 kV, FEMA's evidence rule: what every utility must prove in 2026.

What the Senate Permitting Bill Means for Transmission Inspection: The Permit-to-Baseline Gap

The Senate permitting bill speeds siting and building. It leaves the inspection record untouched. Detect's take on the Permit-to-Baseline Gap.

The Complete Guide to AI Grid Asset Photo Analysis

How AI turns inspection photos into verified, severity-ranked defect records, predictive maintenance signals and claim-ready evidence, step by step.

Asset Inspection Software: What It Is, What It Must Carry, and How to Choose It

What asset inspection software has to carry, from the first flight to the next cycle, and a four-question test for finding the layer your program is missing.

A Beginner's Guide to Utility Drone SOPs in Canada

U.S. Drone Pilot Certification Platforms Compared: What Utility Survey Work Requires

AI Risk-Based Utility Work Plans: The Executive Guide

Why Manual Grid Inspections Still Miss Failure Risks

The inspection passed and the line still failed. The three gaps - coverage, latency, record - that let a defect become an outage, with the numbers behind each.

Ten Months in the Field: From a Cardboard-Box Prototype to a Production Capture Unit

Field log: how a camera on a cardboard box became a roof-mounted unit capturing 1,000+ poles a day - and why association, not capture, was the hard part.

The Complete Guide to Utility Photo Data Quality

How to Integrate AI Utility Inspections With the Systems You Already Run

Any pilot, any drone: the Detect Partner Network opens up

The Partner Network is open to any pilot: the free Data Quality Program relaunched inside DetectOS - any quadcopter, flown manually, pre-built shot sheets.

7 Checks Before You Trust AI Inspection Results

Seven checks tell you whether AI inspection findings deserve field action - the verification funnel, per-class accuracy, and the evidence to demand.

The new DetectOS: built around the asset, not the job

One record per structure, ingestion your operators can see into, and feeds built for distribution scale. Live today - and on screen at T&D World Live, Booth 512.

How Drone Inspection Caught 67 Defects on a New 345kV Transmission Line

How a DSP and Detect caught 67 critical defects on a new 345kV line inside warranty. 927 structures. 45,335 findings. Read the case study.