May 2025 – Fingrid, Finland’s transmission system operator, has launched a strategic initiative to enhance grid maintenance in collaboration with eSmart Systems, a leader in critical grid asset management solutions. The project focuses on the conditional analysis of Fingrid’s Extra High Voltage (EHV) portfolio, leveraging advanced aerial data capture and virtual inspections using GridVision® software to improve grid reliability, safety, and sustainability.
Modernizing Data Capture and Virtual Inspections
As part of this initiative, Fingrid partnered with eSmart Systems and Airpelago. The project utilized automated flight patterns to capture data across 400 kV towers and spans along three powerlines. This approach introduced virtual inspections, significantly reducing the need for physical fieldwork and planned outages.
The captured data is processed in Grid Vision®, enabling Fingrid’s maintenance service providers to conduct comprehensive inspections more efficiently and with less reliance on on-site visits. Grid Vision® delivers a complete overview of each transmission tower’s condition, supporting proactive maintenance decisions and strengthening Fingrid’s overall asset management strategy. By digitalizing inspections, Fingrid is achieving improved data accuracy, new asset insights, enhanced safety, and high-quality decision-making data.
Our commitment to adopting innovative technologies allows us to enhance the security of supply while adhering to stringent safety and sustainability objectives. By integrating automated data capture with the competence of our maintenance personnel, we gain a clearer picture of our grid’s condition, enabling proactive interventions that improve operational efficiency, safety, and reliability.
We are proud to support Fingrid’s digitalization program. Our Grid Vision® solution aligns with their strategic goals for grid development and sustainability, while enabling service providers to conduct inspections more safely. The asset data within Grid Vision® will support preventive maintenance and asset management strategies to deliver clean, affordable, and reliable power to their customers.
Fingrid’s vision for a sustainable grid
Fingrid continues to pursue technological advancements that support effective, data-driven grid maintenance. With the increasing complexity of energy transmission and rising sustainability expectations, the company remains committed to securing Finland’s energy supply while promoting a clean, market-based power system.
As Finland’s national transmission system operator, Fingrid plays a vital role in balancing electricity production and consumption. Through its extensive network, the company ensures the seamless flow of electricity across borders, connecting Finland to the Nordic and Central European power systems.
This project underscores Fingrid’s forward-thinking approach to grid management and reinforces its mission to provide uninterrupted electricity access, improve inspection safety, and accelerate digitalization in support of a more resilient and sustainable energy infrastructure.
About Fingrid
Fingrid Oyj is Finland’s transmission system operator, owned by the Finnish state and pension insurance companies. The company ensures a stable and secure electricity supply across the nation, transmitting electricity through the high-voltage network from production facilities to industrial consumers and electricity companies. As part of the joint Nordic power system, Fingrid plays a vital role in maintaining energy security and enabling cross-border electricity trade, ensuring a reliable and efficient power market.
About eSmart Systems
Smart Systems is a leading provider of AI-powered solutions for the inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure. Through our software solution, GridVision®, we revolutionize how utility companies operate and maintain their transmission and distribution grids. We support utilities worldwide in reducing inspection costs, making inspections safer, improving asset data quality, and prolonging asset life by providing an image-based digital inventory representing all physical grid assets. eSmart Systems has more than 20 years of international experience in establishing and operating knowledge-based IT and energy-related companies targeting global markets.
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