Thread provides an asset-centric platform, UNITI, that automates data collection and management for infrastructure inspections, integrating various data types such as images, LiDAR scans, and field notes into a single digital record. This approach enhances data visibility and collaboration, enabling utilities to efficiently track asset health and optimize maintenance schedules while reducing unnecessary reinspections.
Funding
$25.3M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Problem
Utilities face challenges in managing and analyzing the large volumes of data generated during infrastructure inspections, which include imagery, LiDAR scans, and field notes. Siloed data and manual processes limit data visibility, hinder collaboration, and delay critical insights into asset health. This can lead to inefficient maintenance schedules and unnecessary reinspections.
Solution
Thread's UNITI platform provides an asset-centric solution for automating data collection and management for infrastructure inspections. The platform integrates diverse data types into a unified digital record, enhancing data visibility and transparency. UNITI's sharing tools facilitate collaboration between inspection teams, supervisors, and operations managers, enabling efficient review requests and repair flag escalation. The platform's dashboard views provide insights into asset health, damage evolution, and work order status, supporting data-backed decisions and proactive asset management.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes utilities in the transmission, distribution, and wind energy sectors, as well as inspectors, operators, and managers responsible for infrastructure asset management.
Features
- Asset-centric architecture that organizes imagery and inspection data against a digital record of physical infrastructure.
- Support for various data types, including photos, videos, LiDAR scans, and digital scans of physical documents.
- Sharing tools that allow review requests and repair flags to escalate from inspection teams to supervisors and operation managers.
- Aggregate dashboard views that provide insights into the number of high-severity assets, damage evolution over time, and geographically grouped work orders.
- Mobile device connectivity for on-site data collection, updates, and enrichment.
- Templatized inspection plans to standardize field operations and data submission.
- Automated ingestion of imagery, manual uploads, and digitized field notes.
- Integration with work order management systems.