Drones to keep an eye on power transmission towers in MP from Oct 1
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The state-run Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company Limited is going to deploy drones to monitor 10,000 high voltage towers in the state beginning October 1.
The state-run Madhya Pradesh Power Transmission Company Limited (MPPTCL) is going to deploy drones to monitor 10,000 high voltage towers in the state beginning October 1, a senior company official said on Monday.
"This is for the first time in the country that drones are going to be used to check tall towers for smooth power supply,” MPPTCL Managing Director Sunil Tiwari claimed while talking to PTI.
He said drones will take videos and close range pictures of the towers.
Currently, the inspection of towers is being done manually. Employees climb the towers to check the equipment and this process is very time consuming and laborious. Now, drones would do this work, he said.
“The benefit of using the drone technology is that we can take photographs and video of the equipment installed on the towers closely from all sides,” the official said.
Tiwari said they decided to deploy drones after their use for inspection on an experimental basis for some months showed encouraging results.
The drones are going to be used for the inspection of 10,000 out of the 80,000 extra high voltage power transmission line towers installed across Madhya Pradesh from next month, he said.
