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Utility Drone Inspection Solutions
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"Better maintenance planning starts here"
Services
Our patrols cover the full scope of routine distribution inspections, including conductors, insulators, crossarms, dead-end assemblies, regulators, capacitors, and more.
During these flights, we identify early signs of deterioration such as corrosion, rotten or UV-damaged crossarms, flashovers, tracking, loose hardware, vegetation encroachment, and weather-related degradation. All imagery is captured and delivered through our chosen asset management platform, giving your team seamless access for project tracking and documentation. This eliminates the burden of storing and sorting thousands of raw photos internally. If preferred, we can also provide a dedicated SSD with all images upon request at the start of service.
Asset Deterioration Detection (ADD)
Thermal Inspections
This service can be offered as a stand-alone patrol or paired with our ADD inspections for greater insight. Many utilities require a comprehensive “pulse check” of critical assets — including capacitors, regulators, step-up/step-down transformers, re-closers, potheads, and substation equipment. With Next Level UAV, thermographic imagery of these key assets provides the data you need to plan effectively, improve system health, and strengthen overall reliability
Power Quality Patrols (PQP)
Our targeted drone patrols are designed to diagnose unexplained circuit operations and recurring nuisance outages. We capture actionable data that supports root-cause analysis of equipment failures and identifies issues such as wildlife or vegetation contacts that are likely causing the interruptions. Before any work is initiated all System Operations data, fault condition analysis, weather condition at the time of interruption and any other pertinent data is collected to ensure a thorough investigation is performed. When reliability issues appear without warning, or a feeder breaker or re-closure is tripping with “no cause” reported — give us a call.
Reporting Features
and Product Delivery
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Annotated visuals with priority recommendations
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Annotated thermal images with qualitative and quantitative measurements
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GIS tagged images to ensure accuracy
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SOC2 - System and Organization Controls 2 - security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
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SaaS - Minimizes IT overhead, updates automatically, and scales easily.
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R-cloud - Host data in an R-Cloud to meet regulatory and cybersecurity standards.
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AWS services - Amazon’s cloud computing platform, offering a wide range of services such as computing power, storage, databases, networking, machine learning, and more.
Inspection Report Summary Example
Critical Report Example
SERVICE INQUIRY
About US
I’ve had the privilege of serving in multiple roles that kept communities powered and safe. From construction/maintenance as a Journeyman Lineman, restoring outages swiftly as a Troubleshooter, to coordinating system restoration as a Distribution Operator. I’ve built my career on solving problems in high stakes situations and ensured reliability when it mattered most.
Most drone service providers sound the same: keep your crews safe, save time and money, scale faster, get geo-tagged photos and thermal images. The reality? Many don’t understand what they’re looking at. Before long, you’re paying the equivalent of another salary for someone to sift through thousands of photos—wasting both time and money.
At Next Level UAV, we bring real utility experience. I’ve built, operated, and maintained this infrastructure for nearly two decades. We find the needle in the haystack so you don’t have to. These patrols aren’t cookie-cutter—they’re based on your immediate operational needs.
This isn’t photography. This is reliability, backed by experience.
That’s the Next Level difference.
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