New technologies for wooden poles network asset management

Power and telecom companies are placing increasing emphasis on cost effective processes to extend the lives of existing facilities while maintaining adequate levels of safety and reliability. In the case of overhead lines, utilities are facing the problem of the wood poles ageing (most of them will reach the end of their “design lives” over the next 10 to 20 years) combined with some high capital and maintenance budgetary requirements, an overloaded network due to an increasing demand and extreme changing climate effect actions on the overhead structural components.