Salt Lake City, Utah | January 10, 2025 - Sharper Shape, a leader in T&D utility asset management and grid resiliency solutions, has entered into a five-year software agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) for use of Sharper Shape’s software CORE (Cloud Optimized Remote Evaluation) to assist with utility asset management. This agreement builds on a successful partnership dating back to 2019. PG&E began leveraging Sharper Shape’s cutting-edge software, CORE (Cloud Optimized Remote Evaluation), in 2021 to enhance asset management and maintenance strategies.
Sharper Shape’s software enables PG&E to analyze lidar and RGB imagery remotely, allowing for intelligent, data-driven maintenance decisions without the need for extensive field visits. Since 2019, Sharper Shape has been collecting and processing high-quality lidar and RGB imagery for PG&E, creating a state-of-the-art digital twin of PG&E’s infrastructure. This digital twin, combined with Sharper CORE’s AI algorithms, helps utilities predict and prevent equipment failures and create fully prioritized asset management plans.
PG&E is utilizing Sharper CORE’s Data Lake to scale access to cutting-edge remote sensing data and operationalize its application across various functions. Key benefits of CORE include:
- Minimizing Truck Rolls: Reducing the need for field visits by optimizing workflows related to pole loading calculations and the estimation and design of distribution assets.
- Ensuring Compliance: Supporting adherence to internal standards and external regulations, including California’s GO95.
- Cataloguing Historical Network Data: Integrating data collected over many years from multiple vendors and sources.
- Validating Site Accessibility: Supporting field operations and construction teams with remote data validation.
- Vegetation Management and Risk Modeling: Leveraging data to predict and mitigate wildfire risks through advanced segmentation and tree species identification.
- Empowering Data Science: Providing critical data for the development of risk models aimed at enhancing wildfire prevention and response strategies.
“We are thrilled to deepen our partnership with PG&E through this long-term agreement,” said Kristy McDermott, Vice President of Sales of Sharper Shape Inc. “The innovative application of our CORE platform demonstrates the immense value of combining advanced AI, remote sensing data, and digital twin technology to create safer and more resilient utility infrastructure. Together with PG&E, we’re setting a new standard for asset intelligence and management.”
This collaboration reflects PG&E’s commitment to leveraging innovative technologies to enhance safety, efficiency, and sustainability while addressing the challenges of climate change and evolving regulatory requirements.
About Sharper Shape
Sharper Shape builds Living Digital Twin (LDT) software to help power transmission & distribution utilities and other operators of linear infrastructure manage risk, improve safety, and create operational efficiencies. Delivered on a cloud based, SaaS platform and supplemented by data collection and work package execution services, Sharper Shape’s technology is built by some of the brightest tech minds in Finland and the US. Our ever-expanding library of advanced AI/ML algorithms allows us to produce LDTs which are easy to integrate into user workflows and to update with live field data. Our ultimate vision is a safer world, and our mission is to create these tools and offer insights which empower asset operators to make it so.
Sharper Shape was founded in 2013 in Helsinki, Finland. Sharper Shape serves tier one utilities around the world, with dedicated technology centers in Helsinki and Salt Lake City, Utah.
For more information about Sharper Shape and its CORE platform, visit www.sharpershape.com.
Source: Press Release
