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    • 9. 发明申请
    • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR UTILITY POWER LINE MONITORING
    • US20220108242A1
    • 2022-04-07
    • US17506897
    • 2021-10-21
    • Green Grid Inc.
    • Chinmoy Prosun SAHAJeffrey Scott PICKLES
    • G06Q10/06G08B21/10G08B17/00G08B29/20G06Q50/16G08B21/16B63B35/00B64C39/02G06Q40/08B64F1/36G01S17/89G06Q50/26G06T7/20G06N20/00G06V20/10H04N7/18
    • The present invention solves a very complex problem that is a major obstacles for electric utility industry's power lines vegetation encroachment management business. Vegetation contacts to the high voltage overhead power lines cause flash-over and/or blackout which results in hazardous situations and economic losses. Power line vegetation management is a very cost intensive business process which is essential to ensure safe, reliable and affordable electric energy supply by the electric utilities, transmission and generation owners. This routine electric utility vegetation management related work is mandated and overseen by applicable federal, state or local regulatory agencies. The state-of-the-art vegetation management process involves labor and cost intensive foot-patrol, vehicular patrol, air patrol and airborne LIDAR patrol of power lines. These methods are often inefficient, unreliable, risky and costly. The present invention provides a method and system for automated vegetation growth, condition and status monitoring near high voltage utility electric lines using stationary sensors, wireless or wired communications and computation technologies and proprietary algorithms. The method and system of the current invention monitors the power line infrastructures remotely and advises the vegetation maintenance crews on mitigating actions without requiring human interventions, thus saving cost and reducing risks to the humans and environment. A comprehensive vegetation encroachment condition report with vegetation proximity advisory (VPA) and vegetation resolution advisory (VRA) is automatically generated and transmitted to the operational staff by the system for each electric line span at certain time interval or continuously without boots-on-the-ground manual asset inspection and/or air patrol using aircraft. This current invention is an automated, safer and low-cost solution to an electric utility industry's essential reliability and compliance related business process.