Actionable vegetation intelligence for safer, more reliable power
Vegetation is the single greatest contributor to power outages and wildfires caused by our electric grid. Our software helps utilities optimize resources, mitigate vegetation risk, and future-proof their operations programs, enabling smarter infrastructure management and safer communities.
Join the innovative operations teams using Overstory
“As we evaluated different vegetation intelligence platforms, Overstory stood out because they partnered with us to work together on a solution. It was a collaborative effort from the start. Throughout the pilot, they brought in functionality that supported our existing workflows, helping us solve these shared challenges together.”
Optimize resources
Vegetation management is typically a utility’s greatest operations budget item, yet it’s one of the least informed with advanced technology and analytics. Maximize precious time and money by prioritizing impactful vegetation management work, minimizing spend on unnecessary trimming, and maximizing spend on riskier areas.
Why data-driven vegetation management matters
Rising expenses
Vegetation management expenses grew from 50% of overhead maintenance budgets in 2015 to 75% in 2020 and continue to rise.
Less labor availability
54.4% of workers in vegetation management voluntarily left their positions in the last five years, and the workforce is aging.
Extreme weather
Weather-related outages have increased by 78% over the last 10 years. “Outlier” days are
increasingly common.
Reduce risk and improve reliability
Vegetation risk continues to grow with increasingly severe and extreme weather. With it, reactive work becomes more dangerous, expensive, and frequent. Address risk from encroachment, hazard trees, and wildfire before it materializes by shifting to proactive vegetation management.
How our technology works
We create vegetation data by combining AI with remote sensing sources like satellite and aerial imagery.
Then we combine that data with important local information like asset location, wildfire maps, terrain, and more.
And we use vegetation intelligence to help utilities build efficient, data-driven vegetation management programs.
Future-proof your operations program
Changing weather trends, limited budgets, and a limited workforce mean utilities can’t depend solely on the vegetation management cycles or the historical knowledge they’ve used in the past. Build resilience and predictability into your program with data-driven vegetation management. Codify your decision-making so you’re prepared for any event.
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What customers are saying
“The vegetation management experts have validated the accuracy of the Overstory deliverables for all of Spain, and we’ve confirmed that the accuracy exceeded our expectations. The results from Overstory are currently implemented in the vegetation management cycle for 10,000 miles of powerline.”
— Iago Veiras Lens, Artificial Intelligence Partner, Elewit, Red Eléctrica Group
“We were very impressed with Overstory’s forest health monitoring dashboard and believe it has strong growth potential.”
— Agnieszka Lukaszczyk, Senior Director of European Affairs at Planet
Request a demo
Please reach out to learn how Overstory can help your utility optimize resources, improve reliability, and future-proof your operations program. We work with 40+ investor-owned utilities, cooperatives, and municipalities across North and South America and Europe, and we would be happy to help.