Overhead Powerlines Inspection Using Drones Project – SEC National Grid Eastern Province
- Challenge
- 6000+ km OHL network spread across Eastern Region with varied terrain
- Manual inspections slow, risky, and hard to scale over multiple years
- Limited visibility into early-stage defects without thermal, UV, and LiDAR data
- Need for long-term digitization, not one-time surveys
- AIGC Solution
- Deployed multi-sensor drone inspections across Visual, Thermal, LiDAR, Topographic, and UV
- Structured 3-year execution program covering Dammam, Hassa, North West, and North Eastern regions
- Built geo-referenced digital models of OHL assets for anomaly tracking
- Integrated inspection outputs into actionable workflows for SEC teams
- Realized Value
- Enabled continuous, scalable inspection of the national grid
- Early detection of hotspots, corona, clearance risks, and structural defects
- Accelerated OHL digitization for predictive maintenance and planning
- Improved grid reliability, safety, and response time across regions