Protect the line before it takes the grid down.
Most of the grid is inspected on multi-year cycles — yet vegetation contact, structure failure, and intrusion happen continuously, and a single ignition can become a catastrophe. Overwatch puts a continuous, zero-trust watch on the towers and the corridor between them.
Millions of miles of line. Continuous monitoring where annual inspection can't reach.
Millions of miles, inspected on a multi-year clock.
Utilities are responsible for millions of miles of transmission and distribution line, much of it crossing wildland and remote terrain. Static inspection on multi-year cycles can't see vegetation growing into a conductor, a structure beginning to lean, or an intruder at a remote tower — and it can't catch an ignition in the first minutes that decide whether it stays a spark or becomes a wildfire. Continuous edge monitoring closes that gap across the corridors and structures that matter most.
miles of transmission and distribution line in the US alone
the window in which an ignition is still containable
continuous structural and environmental watch
Eyes on every tower and the span between.
Each node — mounted on the structure or beside the corridor — runs multi-modal sensing and on-device AI: optical and thermal imaging, LiDAR, and environmental sensors. It detects locally and reports events in seconds, drawing on solar power and multi-link comms to reach the remote spans where the grid is most exposed.
The same node that watches for a fault watches for fire, intrusion, and habitat impact — one device serving structural integrity, public safety, and ESG reporting at once.
Vegetation encroachment
Camera and LiDAR analysis track vegetation growth toward conductors — the leading cause of outages and ignitions — before it makes contact.
Structure & conductor health
Detect pole and tower tilt, conductor strain and sag, and structural fatigue, trended against baselines to surface failure before it happens.
Wildfire ignition detection
Thermal and smoke-signature detection along the corridor flags ignitions in the first minutes — when a single crew can still contain them.
Intrusion & asset security
Behavioral models flag intrusion, theft, and tampering at towers and substations, without streaming raw video off-site.
What the sensors see, the crew sees — overlaid on the structure in front of them.
Grid-grade security on every node.
Grid telemetry is critical-infrastructure data — a target and a liability. Overwatch is zero-trust from the silicon up, the same architecture trusted inside defense perimeters and regulated clinical environments.
No raw video off-site
Detection runs on the node; the cloud gets events, not continuous footage from the line.
Explicit-approval credentialing
Human approval is the only path to credentialing a device or a user — no implicit trust between components.
Independent kill switches
Three independent layers of trust with per-device kill switches — isolate any node without disrupting the rest of the sensor grid.
Tamper & integrity monitoring
Nodes report physical tampering and configuration drift, so the monitoring layer is itself accountable.
Into the control room, not another silo.
Alerts land in the systems your operators already watch — SCADA, GIS, and outage management — mapped to the structure and the span, so the live picture reaches the people already making the call.
SCADA & GIS integration
Events and geospatial context flow into existing SCADA and GIS, tied to the structure ID and circuit.
Wildfire & dispatch routing
Ignition alerts route directly to CAD and dispatch — the same screens responders already watch — with live imagery attached.
Field apps & AR
Crews get the live picture on mobile and AR clients at the structure, with offline-first sync for remote spans.
Compliance & PSPS support
Continuous evidence for vegetation-management and wildfire-mitigation programs, and situational data to inform public-safety power shutoffs.
Put continuous eyes on the line.
If your inspection program runs on a multi-year cycle while the risks run continuously, let's scope a zero-trust deployment across your highest-priority corridors.