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Tom Lenzen

Oct 21, 2026

2:30
the GIS side?
2:32
So I would agree 100% with what Caitlin said, but I also kind of bring the perspective of having worked with customers for 22 plus years and been in the field with some of the supervisors.
2:49
One of the biggest changes that's happened now with the ability to do visual AI and visual inspections with drone data capture and those kinds of things is In the past, you think about electric infrastructure, let's take electric transmission structures.
3:09
It was impossible for them to get a close range look at equipment or insulators or connect points.
3:18
on those structures.
3:20
They were doing it with binoculars or they were doing it with bucket trucks, which didn't happen very often because that was very expensive.
3:26
They were depending more on trusting the lifespan of the equipment and components that were on those structures.

18 MINS LATER

21:39
Maybe one question I would ask for you is, as you're thinking about the impact of AI and as you're thinking about the impact of GIS for utilities who are looking to just get started as they're trying to build an imagery strategy and trying to standardize, what are some recommendations you would give to them as they're in the early stages of figuring out how to put together that strategy, how to think about AI and how to think about GIS collectively?

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