The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
LineVision's sensor technology increases transmission line capacity by up to 40 percent
“LineVision has a technology, it's a combination of soft Square and sensors that allows us to increase the capacity of a transmission line by up to 40% or more without having to either reconductor the line or build new lines.”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 4:56 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Assertion Supported
A Mid-Atlantic utility is deploying the world's largest dynamic line rating project
“Four or five years later, that utility is a trusted partner of ours, and they are currently deploying the largest DLR project in the world.”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 2:47 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Disclosure
LineVision bypasses utility innovation departments to sell directly to operational executives
“As we get to more of the phase that we're maybe entering in now in the life cycle of our company, where we have a number of proof points and we know that the category is well understood, we don't necessarily have to engage with innovation departments in order …”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 21:05 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Insight
EMF sensors proved inefficient for monitoring multi-conductor transmission corridors
“You can imagine trying to use EMF sensors to isolate the signal from each of those individual conductors and all the complicated map that goes into it. And long story short, that got really messy really quickly and was not kind of an efficient way to get the i…”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 7:09 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Insight
Utilities will not adopt new technology just because a pilot succeeded
“One thing that we've recognized is that at the end of the day, utilities are not going to adopt something because a pilot was successful in and of itself, nor are they going to adopt it because the technology is interesting or cool.”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 19:11 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LineVision's on-premises architecture prevents external hacking of dynamic line ratings
“All of the actual calculations for the ratings are happening in their environment, and this is really important because what they don't want is some bad actor with malicious intent kind of hacking into the system, changing the ratings, and potentially causing …”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 15:01 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Assertion Supported
LineVision can install its transmission grid monitoring sensors in 15 minutes
“We can install our sensors in like, 15 minutes, right?”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 24:01 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Assertion Not checkable as stated
LiDAR conductor monitoring delivers more accurate dynamic line ratings
“And so, using that type of information was kind of the next generation of our product, That allowed us to get more accurate readings of the behavior of the conductor and ultimately be able to provide the dynamic line rating.”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 7:48 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
Disclosure
LineVision bid on a $750K utility RFP with just $2M in capital
“We knew that there was about 750 K tied to this deal, which for a company that's operating off of two million, you can kind of appreciate just the scale.”
Karthik Rao Apr 9, 2025 ▶ 0:21 LineVision's quest to win over utilities
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