Case Study: Nova Scotia Power improves vegetation risk assessment with AiDASH IVMS

Nova Scotia Power improves vegetation risk assessment with AiDash and 80% ground-truth accuracy

Nova Scotia Power, an electric utility serving Canada's Nova Scotia province, faced significant challenges in managing vegetation along its vast network of distribution lines. Worsening climate change-related weather events and difficult terrain made manual inspections risky, inefficient, and costly. To address this, they partnered with vendor AiDash to implement its Intelligent Vegetation Management System (IVMS) to gain a more efficient and data-driven understanding of risk.

The AiDash IVMS solution used satellites and AI to quickly collect precise vegetation data across Nova Scotia Power's entire service area. This provided systematic, accurate risk assessments, with 80% of the AI-generated measurements precisely matching ground-truth assessments. The results included increased confidence in their risk profiling, more efficient resource allocation, and documented improvements for stakeholders. The solution also freed up personnel time, allowing for improved contractor safety oversight and projected improvements in reliability metrics (SAIFI/SAIDI).

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