Utility Asset Management Resources

Understanding Grid Resilience in Utility Asset Management

The regulatory definition of grid resilience, how it differs from reliability, and the condition evidence that decides where hardening investment goes.

Detect Named a 2026 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Honoree

Detect has been named an honoree of the 16th Annual GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch Awards, selected from nearly 500 nominations and 94 finalists statewide.

Utility Drone Pilot Jobs: How to Get Power Line Inspection Work in 2026

Credentials, capture skills, prequalification, and the four doors into utility drone work - the Utility Pilot Ladder, with Detect's rework data.

Substation Inspection: Checklist, Frequency, and Methods (2026 Guide)

A component-by-component substation inspection checklist, the cadences utilities publish, and how visual, infrared, drone, and AI methods fit together.

AI Utility Inspection for Storm Damage Response and Outage Recovery

How AI-powered utility inspection turns storm imagery into recovery decisions and claim-ready evidence - the Storm Evidence Cycle, plus a pre-season checklist.

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