Utility Drone Inspection Solutions
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High Valued 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. This is a rapid-response, 24/7 service that deploys when reliability issues appear without warning. If a feeder breaker or re-closure is tripping with “no cause” reported — give us a call.
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Reporting Features
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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
Storm Hawk Patrols
When severe weather strikes, utilities face a double challenge: staffing shortages caused by crew work-hour limitations and dangerous hazards left lurking in the distribution system. These hazards can lead to serious injury—or even fatalities—if not identified quickly. With some service territories often spanning hundreds of miles and thousands of customers affected at once, timely hazard detection is critical.
That’s where we come in. Our Storm Hawk Patrol service is ready to deploy 24/7, with same-day response. We provide rapid, professional support to help utilities locate and mitigate risks—keeping crews safe and accelerating restoration efforts. Inquire below for more details about joining our Storm Hawk list.
Public Relations Aerial Media
Showcase your crews in action from a whole new perspective. Our drone photography and videography services capture high-quality visuals during storm restoration, training exercises, and community initiatives. These professional images and videos highlight your commitment to safety, reliability, and customer service — perfect for press releases, social media, and internal communications. Let us take your PR to the Next Level!
Reliability Matters
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Located in Gods Country, USA
Boerne, TX
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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, and I know what works and what doesn’t. Your concern isn’t a loose nut on an insulator—it’s the hidden issues that actually threaten reliability. We find the needle in the haystack so you don’t have to.
Our patrols aren’t cookie-cutter—they’re based on your immediate operational needs. For example, when a circuit operates multiple times over a weekend with “no obvious cause,” we dig deeper. We analyze fault data, weather conditions, customer reports, and system operations records to pinpoint the problem and deliver actionable solutions. This isn’t photography. This is reliability, backed by experience.
That’s the Next Level difference.