The use of drones in the process of designing power lines

Today, the latest issue of the Inżynier budownictwa magazine has been published, in which our article on the possibility of using drone services in the process of designing overhead power lines has been presented. Thanks to the drones equipped with a laser scanner, Eltel Networks receives several orders of magnitude more information in the form of a point cloud with the same centimetre accuracy, in a much shorter time than with traditional surveying measurements. These data, in addition to being used at the design process, can be obtained in the adopted cycle and uploaded to the line model, serving many purposes, e.g. to detect potential close-ups, changes in cable tension, deformation of the structure or to determine the scope of tree trimming.