- As part of efforts to increase grid resilience across their properties in the U.S., National Grid planned to expand a substation in New York State.
- However, the surrounding area had no available records, so the National Grid design team was concerned about unknown buried assets as they planned out the footprint of the new substation.
- National Grid engaged Exodigo to locate all utilities both inside the fence line of the current substation and outside it, where they were planning to expand. Exodigo was asked to identify risk areas and help the National Grid design team to avoid obstacles and strikes.
- Exodigo used its cart platform to scan the area with multiple sensors, camera images, and centimeter-precision RTK GPS to collect over 500 GB of data per acre.
- Exodigo scanned every square foot of terrain to non-intrusively uncover all subsurface assets in the planned footprint of the new substation– known and unknown - agnostic of external inputs.
- The data was then analyzed and processed with AI and turned into a visual underground network model that allowed National Grid to "see" the underground.
Date:
October 2023
Location:
Rotterdam, NY
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