Read Fulcrum blog posts for the electrical utilities industry, covering field data collection, inspections, and operational workflows.
Conducting telecom, cellular, and pre-fiber inspections across the United States with Fulcrum.
Before Fulcrum
In California, where millions of acres are consumed by wildfire each year, county fire departments are required to conduct defensible-space inspections to protect the property and residents of their region.
Before Fulcrum
Northpower performs 85,000 pillar inspections over a cycle of 3 years. Until recently, Windows Mobile-based phones with 2.8” displays were used with a forms solution to capture inspection results. Paper-based maps were used to log and navigate to each pillar to conduct inspections.
Find out how to choose a solution that improves your workflows today and can also adapt to the changing needs of your field organization.
Field inspections play a crucial role in maintaining safety, efficiency, and compliance, but outdated processes often get in the way. Paper-based systems, slow data sharing, and manual errors can cause delays, frustrations, and even compliance risks for field teams. It’s time to embrace a better way of working. This guide is designed to help you modernize inspections with practical, actionable steps. By identifying pain points and adopting modern tools, you can transform inspection workflows into efficient, streamlined processes that save time, reduce errors, and boost productivity.
At our core, Spatial Networks is a geography company. From building geospatial technology products to collecting, organizing, and analyzing geodata, we eat, drink, and breathe geography. It’s sobering to learn that, for many of our customers, Fulcrum often provides their first exposure to the wonderful world of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
I had the opportunity to represent Fulcrum at the inaugural DroneDeploy Conference in San Francisco, CA last week. One of the goals of the conference was to “focus on real-world drone deployments across industries driven by people”. The conference had people in attendance from an array of industries including end users, software providers, and developers interested in folding aerial survey data into applications.
