LineVision unveils enhancements to situational awareness platform
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LineVision, a provider of advanced grid monitoring solutions, announced enhancements to its situational awareness platform, LineAware, at DISTRIBUTECH 2025.
In addition to monitoring conditions like conductor sag, blowout, and icing, these new features will equip utility operators with “hyper-local” transmission line wind forecast data, powered by continuous sensor data and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
To mitigate growing wildfire risks, LineVision’s non-contact LUX sensors are equipped with weather stations that directly measure wind speed within a right-of-way.
This is meant to provide utility control rooms with continuous information on the environmental conditions their assets face, enabling calibration of weather model data in order to accurately capture the unique wind conditions within a utility corridor.
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Through hundreds of sensors globally, LineVision has found that modeled wind speeds can be overestimated by 70% and underestimated by 20%.
This forecast uncertainty arises because weather providers don’t take into account high-resolution data on the local topography or have local sensor data for calibration, LineVision argues.
Factors like hills, valleys, trees, and buildings can significantly impact wind speeds within utility right-of-ways.
“This enhancement to LineAware provides our utility partners with a critical tool to continuously monitor their critical infrastructure and alert on conditions that could lead to ignition events and jeopardize public safety and system reliability,” said Jon Marmillo, co-founder and chief product officer of LineVision. “We’re confident that this new data will empower utilities to reduce wildfire risk and enhance grid safety.”
LineVision’s enhanced LineAware capabilities are now available with new installations of LineVision’s LUX sensor platform and are currently being used by major investor-owned utilities on both the East and West Coast of the United States.
Originally published by Sean Wolfe on Factor This.
