Next Level UAV Utility Distribution Drone Inspection Solutions
What we find for you
Cracked or damaged insulators
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Vegetation encroachment violations
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Slack spans with excessive line sag
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Pole-top damage and aging hardware
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Leaking transformers
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Blown arrestors & arrestor concerns
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Discolored connections that have potential for failure
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Wildfire ignition sources
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Loose or missing down guys
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Indication of pole base rotting
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Missing or broken equipment grounds
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Excessive longitudinal tension from conductors
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Primary conductors damaged by lightning strikes
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General public safety risks
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Storm damage
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Broken tie wires
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Temporary fixes left permanent
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Capacitor damage or blown phase
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Service drops rubbing on trees or not contacted properly
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Dead tree limbs in danger of falling on conductors
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Equipment deterioration
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Potential ignition sources
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Wildlife contact points
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NESC communication violations
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Joint use attachment identification
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Insulation contamination that leads to tracking
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UV damaged polymer insulation
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Rotten cross arms / fiberglass degradation
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Broken braces on wooden cross arms
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Animal guarding suggestions
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Loose hardware & fall hazards
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Visible tracking caused by failing insulation
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General hardware degradation
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Cracked poles from vehicular damage
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Leaning poles caused by loading issues
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Building encroachments
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Missing sectionalizing devices
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Damaged / leaking regulators
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Recalled hardware identification
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Vandalism indicators
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Examples
Regulatory & Compliance
In alignment with Texas HB 145, proactive inspection of utility infrastructure is critical in reducing wildfire risk.
Next Level UAV provides detailed aerial inspections that help identify hazardous conditions such as:
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Vegetation encroachment and clearance violations
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Damaged or deteriorating equipment
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Loose or failing connections
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Wildlife contact points
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Conditions that could lead to ignition or system faults
Our data-driven insights support safer operations, regulatory compliance, and risk reduction across your system.
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Why We Do What We Do
At Next Level UAV, our mission is rooted in reality: every outage, equipment failure, and wildfire risk begins as a condition that can be identified—if you know what to look for.
With nearly two decades of hands-on experience in electric utility operations, we understand the pressures faced by Operations leaders, Engineers, Reliability teams, and Executive leadership. You are tasked with delivering safe, reliable power while balancing regulatory requirements, aging infrastructure, limited resources, and increasing customer expectations. The margin for error is small, and the consequences of missed conditions can be significant. Impacting safety, reliability metrics, public trust, and financial performance.
Recent legislative requirements, including HB 144 and HB 145, reinforce what the industry already knows.
Proactive inspection and risk identification are no longer optional—they are essential.
With mandates such as inspecting a minimum of 10% of system infrastructure annually, utilities must not only collect data, but ensure that the data being collected is meaningful, accurate, and actionable.
That is why Next Level UAV exists.
We are not a traditional drone service provider. We are a utility-focused inspection partner built on real-world experience. Our approach combines efficient aerial data collection with a deep understanding of how distribution systems operate, fail, and recover. We don’t just capture images for you. We analyze conditions through the lens of reliability, safety, and operational impact.
Every inspection we perform is centered around the questions that matter most to your organization:
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What is most likely to fail?
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What poses the greatest risk to safety or wildfire ignition?
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What will have the biggest impact on SAIDI, SAIFI, and overall system performance?
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What should be prioritized today versus monitored over time?
Our goal is to provide clear, prioritized, and accurate insights that allow your teams to move from reactive response to proactive maintenance. By identifying issues such as deteriorating equipment, vegetation encroachment, and construction deficiencies early, we help reduce outage frequency, minimize emergency response, and support long-term asset management strategies.
From a customer service perspective, reliability is everything. Every avoided outage represents not just operational efficiency, but improved customer trust and satisfaction. From a safety standpoint, early identification of hazardous conditions protects both utility personnel and the communities you serve. And from an executive level, the ability to make informed, data-driven decisions directly impacts system performance, regulatory compliance, and financial outcomes.
Our findings are not generic observations; they are grounded in real utility knowledge, ensuring that what we identify in the field translates directly into meaningful action for your teams.
We do what we do because we’ve seen the difference it makes. When the right issues are caught early, when crews are given clear direction, and when utilities are empowered with the insight needed to operate safer, stronger, and more reliable systems.
