How IQGeo Powers Smarter Utility Networks

So, IQGeo, we're a software company and we have a geospatial solution that's focused primarily for field workers for utilities. So, what we've done is basically remobilize all the data coming from GIS and EAM systems, put it into a simple, easy-to-use application that works online and offline that associates work to the physical asset. There's a lot going on in the utility space right now. All the things that are changing that you've mentioned, grid modernization, it all increases the volume of work that they're expected to do on a day-to-day basis. We see a lot of our customers, either they've got aging applications that need to be replaced, or the field workers are moving between several different applications through the course of a single day. Many of the applications have limited spatial awareness or they're not connected directly to the network model. So, with IQGeo, because we connect the physical network model with the work and attach both the asset and the work together, all in an easy-to-use application, it streamlines the work for the field worker in the field. AI is at the foremost for every conversation at the moment, whether using their back office or in the field. A lot of utilities are already taking images today when they're inspecting, whether they're doing outages, whatever they're doing today. What they're not doing is leveraging the data that's in the image. So, with visual AI techniques, you can actually automate what a human would do through manual processes and actually link that back to whatever work's being done. My recommendation would be to start small. Find the workflow that they're already using images today. So, you're not changing the user experience in the field, but you're automating and making it easier and getting more work done with less. When I talk to utilities today, I think one of the biggest challenges I see is a field worker may have multiple applications that they have to access to do their work. But they're trying to also disseminate very complex data. So, I think the key thing is to make it easy for field workers to do the job and to do it safely. So, put it into an application that works online, offline, easy to use, but gives them access to all of the data, links both the network model with the work they're trying to perform in a simple-to-use workflow. So, let's see.