Vegetation Interference Pulse
Key outcome
This solution lets you detect vegetation encroachment near infrastructure and prioritise action.
Prevent outages
Detect vegetation encroachment early before it triggers service disruptions, safety incidents, or costly emergency interventions across your network.
Reduce Costs
Proactive vegetation management reduces operational risk and costs significantly less than reactive emergency response. Minimising downtime, avoiding unplanned repairs, and protecting both infrastructure and public safety.
Optimise maintenance
Direct field crews to the highest-risk segments first — optimising resources, reducing unnecessary inspections, and ensuring critical areas are addressed before disruption occurs.
The challenge
Uncontrolled vegetation growth near power lines, railways, and roads increases the risk of outages, fires, service disruptions, and safety incidents.
As networks expand and climate variability accelerates growth cycles, the scale and unpredictability of vegetation risk continues to rise.
Traditional inspection methods — from manual patrols, scheduled trimming cycles, to reactive interventions — are costly, time-intensive, and often based on fixed calendars rather than real conditions.
Without consistent visibility across large, distributed networks, operators struggle to prioritise resources effectively and intervene before small issues escalate into operational emergencies.
Our solution
Our solution for Vegetation Interference monitors vegetation growth near critical infrastructure using multi-spectral satellite imagery and machine-learning analysis.
By tracking vegetation health, density, growth rates, and proximity to assets, it detects encroachment early and predicts where risk is increasing.
Operations teams receive ranked worklists, hotspot risk maps, and automated alerts when thresholds are breached — helping them prioritise intervention before outages or fires occur. Delivered through dashboards, GIS exports, API integrations, and audit-ready evidence packs, the Pulse integrates seamlessly into maintenance workflows and field operations.
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Case study: from interference to control
Vegetation growth is a silent risk to critical infrastructure — increasing the likelihood of outages, fire events, and costly service disruptions.
Our Vegetation Interference Pulse continuously monitors asset corridors and surrounding biomass. With the option to receive alerts, operators from utilities, telecom and transport sector can find out on near real time when vegetation risk crosses critical thresholds.
Instead of reacting to damage, teams can intervene earlier — preventing incidents, reducing emergency repair costs, and strengthening long-term operational resilience.
How It Works
Select the assets
Once you select the area or asset, we customise the solution for you. At this stage, we collect satellite data (like Copernicus), and integrate additional relevant data sources, such as geospatial, economic, weather, or proprietary data.
Data processing via SPAI
SPAI supports data collection and processing by using automated workflows and in-house models, with human-led quality checks to ensure consistent results across sites and time.
Pulses deliver the insights
The processed data is translated into structured intelligence: indicators, trends, actionable alerts that move you beyond static maps. At this stage you receive precise indicators that pinpoint exactly where to focus your attention to prevent outages or damage.
Building pulses
We build our solutions with your needs at the centre.
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Operationally proven
Our Operational solutions are built on validated models and automated workflows designed for real-world challenges. We combine scientific rigour with production-grade engineering to deliver reliable intelligence where delays and errors are not an option.
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Integrated into your operations
Our solutions plug directly into your existing systems and workflows — API-first, automation-ready, and deployable on your terms. You maintain full control over your data and models while gaining intelligence that works inside your daily operations.
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Built for action at scale
We design tools that help you set scale timely intervention across sites, regions, and countries. By turning complex geospatial data into structured, operational insight, our Pulses scale just in hours, helping teams act earlier, allocate resources smarter, and manage risk consistently wherever they operate.
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