What does Fulcrum do?

Fulcrum enables electric utilities to standardize field data collection, customize data collection processes, and integrate data from the field with enterprise systems such as GIS and back-office platforms.

How can Fulcrum’s asset management capabilities enhance the lifespan and performance of my electric utility assets?

Fulcrum empowers electric utilities to perform proactive maintenance through real-time data and seamless integration with existing systems, significantly increasing the performance and lifespan of assets like utility poles.

How can Fulcrum aid electric utility quality control efforts?

Fulcrum boosts quality control in electric utilities by enabling customized data collection processes and robust, real-time data integration. This approach ensures compliance with quality standards and facilitates timely adjustments needed for consistent, high-quality electrical utility services.

How can Fulcrum streamline construction oversight in electric utilities?

Fulcrum enhances electric utility construction oversight with mobile devices by enabling quick, accurate data collection and real-time communication. It streamlines project management and ensures compliance with industry standards to improve efficiency while reducing errors.

What electric utilities tasks can be made more productive with Fulcrum?

Just a few ways Fulcrum’s sustainable solutions enhance productivity in electric utilities include vegetation management to prevent wildfires, conducting utility pole inspections for maintenance, and facilitating efficient emergency response during power outages. These tasks are part of Fulcrum’s broader capabilities in streamlining electric utility operations.

How can Fulcrum benefit electric utilities in managing extensive grid modernization initiatives, like undergrounding or integrating renewable energy sources?

Fulcrum assists electric utilities in efficiently handling grid modernization projects by streamlining workflow and enabling effective collaboration across teams, ensuring smooth project execution with finite resources and comprehensive documentation.

How can Fulcrum enhance emergency response efforts in electric utilities?

Fulcrum’s technology enhances emergency and customer care response in electric utilities by offering real-time geolocation data, crucial for efficient navigation and prioritization in disrupted environments. This leads to quicker, safer recovery operations and stronger utility infrastructures.

How does Fulcrum’s data collection software maximize ROI for utility companies?

By reducing inspection and data management times and eliminating the need for extensive manual data entry, Fulcrum allows utility companies to perform more inspections with fewer resources, thus increasing productivity and cost-effectiveness.

Industry

Electric utilities

The Fulcrum field data collection platform helps electric utilities and contractors standardize field data management for regulatory compliance, adapt field processes to exact specs, integrate seamlessly with GIS, and bridge the gap between FieldTech and back-office ecosystems.

Fulcrum lets electric utilities shine bright with better operational efficiency.

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Trusted by nearly 3,000 companies and 50,000 users in 100+ countries

What is Fulcrum? 

Electric utilities and contractors in utility sectors worldwide trust Fulcrum’s SaaS-based field data collection and utility process management platform to efficiently capture and share reliable on-site activity data—faster than paper or traditional digital solutions.

Our standardized, easily customized, and well-integrated data platform bridges the gap between FieldTech and utility industry office systems, streamlining electric utility asset management, utility data collection, and decision-making processes.

Standardize field data collection

Digitally transform your processes with a single platform that:

Accommodates any field data collection and process management use case
Replaces proprietary mobile applications
Expands advanced geospatial applications beyond GIS experts
Reliably delivers real-time, location-specific data even when offline

Customize field processes

Easily adapt to changing field operations requirements with:

Simple drag-and-drop field app modification, with no tech expertise required
Seamless integration of FieldTech hardware such as drones and sensors
Tailored reporting and alerting to and from the field

Streamline two-way integration

Expand the reach and usefulness of your field data with:

Best-in-class integration with Esri ArcGIS
Real-time, two-way communication with any application
Built-in integration with email, SMS, and more
Advanced security and identity management protocols

Discover how the Fulcrum platform reduces costs, enhances data reliability, and drives digital transformation for the electric utilities industry with powerful field data collection and management solutions.

Platform overview

Harness Fulcrum software for utility organizations.

Fulcrum use cases extend far beyond field data collection.

Harness Fulcrum software for utility organizations.

Fulcrum use cases extend far beyond field data collection.

GIS

Empower your GIS management with advanced geospatial tools for precise mapping and analytical insights, optimizing workflows and ensuring reliable GIS data for essential services.

Digital transformation

Drive modernization with our team of industry experts by digitizing field operations and cutting down on paper-based processes, boosting productivity while increasing operational agility.

IT/CIO

Leverage Fulcrum's scalable and secure platform to integrate field data with existing IT systems, reducing custom development needs and bolstering data security inside advanced analytics systems.

Field operations

Streamline your field operations with real-time data collection and communication capabilities, ensuring efficient administrative tasks like resource management and task execution.

How Fulcrum optimizes electric utility field operations

Optimize vegetation management

Capture detailed observations along with photo and video evidence to monitor encroachment risks and ensure adherence to setback guidelines for compliance management. Use data collected to enhance external AI predictive analyses and decision-making processes, prioritizing maintenance based on field observations and data captured from FieldTech tools such as drones and LiDAR.

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Minimize power outage impact

Improve power outage response with advanced field data collection and immediate access to real-time data. Facilitate rapid emergency team mobilization with straightforward onboarding processes. Enable efficient coordination and deployment through real-time communication and data sharing among technicians and managers, accelerating the restoration process. Store and review outage data and recovery actions using AI-enhanced systems to refine future response strategies.

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Preserve the grid

Improve electric utility infrastructure security by collecting detailed geospatial data for key security features such as barriers and fencing around utility assets, allowing for the rapid deployment of electrical field teams to tackle vulnerabilities. Guide maintenance schedules and mitigate risk with accurate asset tracking data, enhanced with GIS visualizations and integrated with information gathered through FieldTech tools like drones and sensors.

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Optimize power pole maintenance

Revolutionize electric utility pole inspections with advanced digital data collection for grid operations and precise documentation of conditions and locations, seamlessly integrating asset management data. Leverage FieldTech tools like drones and sensors to inform maintenance and replacement timelines, standardize asset maintenance inspection protocols across teams, and ensure consistency, extending pole lifespan and enhancing the reliability of your power distribution network.

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Challenges in electric utility field operations

The Fulcrum platform is built to comprehensively support electrical field management, offering precision for pole inspections, proactive strategies for vegetation and asset management for utilities, and rapid response capabilities for emergencies.

Resources

Explore our resources tailored to help energy company field teams maximize the potential of the Fulcrum platform.

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White Paper

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Bringing geospatial intelligence to utility fieldwork

For water and wastewater utilities and electric companies, the field is where plans meet reality. Service depends on fast decisions and accurate utility data. The dynamic nature of field operations presents a significant opportunity. You can bring powerful geospatial intelligence from the back office to frontline teams. A modern approach improves on-site asset management and the accuracy of your central utility maps.

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Guide

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Field data collection software for electrical utilities

Electric utilities face a unique set of challenges, from dealing with geographically dispersed teams and lone workers to navigating rigorous regulatory demands and prioritizing public safety. It’s no wonder that these challenges make electric utilities and partners a prime candidate for the implementation of field data collection software.

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How vegetation management software helps utilities reduce risk and prevent outages

Vegetation management software helps utilities move beyond outdated, cycle-based trimming by integrating GIS with real-time field data. This approach improves accuracy, reduces outages, and enhances decision-making by enabling risk-based, data-driven vegetation control strategies.

Field operations

“We use Fulcrum for training, pole inspections, line patrol, just about any type of field operation. We incorporate it into as many places as we can to see what information we can collect from our crews.”

Brian Stroud, Vice President and GIS Developer

GeoForce Utility Technology

Customer story

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Boost productivity

“Before Fulcrum, 2 full-time employees plus a contractor were needed to perform 45 inspections a day. With Fulcrum, that rate increased to 60 inspections a day with only the two employees, eliminating the need (and expense) of an outside contractor.”

Northpower

Customer story

Ease of use

“We found Fulcrum to be really easy to work with. From the user side, it was always one of our favorite apps, if not the favorite.”

Holly Palmer, Senior Specialist Data Analytics

Southern California Edison

Customer story

Electric utilities app templates

Fulcrum offers a diverse suite of applications tailored to the electric utilities industry. These tools streamline electric utility asset management and utility field service operations. Whether you choose from our ready-made options or use our flexible platform to design custom digital utility solutions, Fulcrum empowers you to address your unique challenges effectively.

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