Sep 16, 2026 · 13 min · 7 segments
What does poor inspection data really cost a utility? In this episode of Buzz and Beyond, host Brandon Bozarth, Director of Solutions at Buzz Solutions, sits down with William Badnaruk, Senior…
William BadnarukGuestBrandon BozarthHostWell, you brought up something really interesting around ROI because the effects, you know, we often talk about, hey, what's the cost of poor data? And we're talking about how it affects the AI models, how you can miss shots, all kinds of things like that.
There's always going to be a dollar value to poor data or poor decision or the inability to make an intelligent decision based off of something you've spent money for.
It's very important just from a basic custodial perspective, even just to ensure that the quality of the data is matching the need for the output.
Well, avoiding unnecessary truck rolls, avoiding reshoots, avoiding storing data, which is very costly, that has no value, right?
The whole purpose of this is to remove the choke points from the process of absorbing and receiving your inspection data.
It's meant to deal with the thousands and hundreds of thousands of images a distribution or transmission asset spread can have.
We're just looking to help churn through this data and enable the ability to help our customers switch from reactive practices to proactive and preventative maintenance schedules.
Well, you brought up something really interesting around ROI because the effects, you know, we often talk about, hey, what's the cost of poor data? And we're talking about how it affects the AI models, how you can miss shots, all kinds of things like that.
There's always going to be a dollar value to poor data or poor decision or the inability to make an intelligent decision based off of something you've spent money for.
It's very important just from a basic custodial perspective, even just to ensure that the quality of the data is matching the need for the output.
Well, avoiding unnecessary truck rolls, avoiding reshoots, avoiding storing data, which is very costly, that has no value, right?
The whole purpose of this is to remove the choke points from the process of absorbing and receiving your inspection data.
It's meant to deal with the thousands and hundreds of thousands of images a distribution or transmission asset spread can have.
We're just looking to help churn through this data and enable the ability to help our customers switch from reactive practices to proactive and preventative maintenance schedules.
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