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16,251 structures destroyed, 507 wildfires, and 57,768 acres burned!
We are not even a quarter into 2025, and the numbers are already alarming and quite shocking. Around 507 wildfires have sparked around the US this year alone.
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Utility vegetation management is a high-risk industry. With overgrown trees and shrubs near power lines, even a small spark might ignite a massive wildfire. Although we don’t exactly know the reason behind the recent palisades fire, we certainly saw how the wildfire quickly spread, engulfing over 23,000 acres, and devastating communities.
The real challenge with these wildfires, apart from the containment, is prevention. And with increasingly complex workflows, even prevention becomes a daunting task. The utility crews are stretched thin. Managing vast networks while relying on outdated methods like manual inspections, fixed maintenance schedules, and scattered data puts the landscape under more pressure.
Adapting a modern utility vegetation management solution with cutting-edge technology isn’t an option anymore. Whether you’re a utility manager, field supervisor, or a specialty contractor, KYRO is the upgrade your operations need right now. KYRO, with its incredible features, redefines the crux of utility vegetation management industry and inspections.
Read on to know more!
The right-of-way (ROW) are spread miles long and in remote locations. Inspections with excel sheets and paper-based methods, muddy boots, and weak cell services are slow and prone to errors. The reactive approach with the crew member updating the record after inspections, and then the manager assessing it later, doesn’t work now.
KYRO’s mobile app simplifies inspections with real-time data capture even when the crew is offline. Crews can snap a geotagged photo, annotate the risks using markups, and log their findings instantly during the inspections. They can sync it up once they are back online.
This means you have instant visibility into the inspection reports, with all the details covered.
When you are an arborist or a specialty contractor with multiple UVM projects, or you have a large-scale inspection, managing multiple crews across different locations becomes tough. You’ll struggle to get clarity on the work progress, the projects in process, the crews in the field, and deadlines might easily slip through. This will eventually cost you time and money.
With automated workflow, you can assign jobs, monitor progress, and get real-time updates easily using KYRO. Even when you have aerials inspections, KYRO has a dedicated space that helps you assess thousands of structures and power grids, collect the inputs and store them in a central place without losing any information.
You keep all your projects on track and on time with accuracy.
Not all vegetation risks are equal. With traditional methods, it’s hard to find and cascade the tasks based on priority. Without a way to flag potential threat or a hazard, crews might waste time on low-priority tasks while critical hazards go unnoticed, increasing the risk of outages, fires, and costly damages.
With ready-to-use digital forms, crews can perform inspection capturing the minute details, add photos to it, and use markup to highlight the severity level. For instance, a crew spots a branch touching a line, marks it urgent with a redlined photo, and uploads it with the inspection report. With an aerial app integrated with maps, you can also have color codes to determine the priority levels.
You don’t have to rely on your instincts and guesswork to get the inspections done. Take decisions with data and prioritize based on real-time inputs.
LS Power used KYRO to streamline around a 1,000-mile ROW inspection, managing 2,100 structural lines and surrounding vegetation. With automated workflows, they tracked every step, reduced rework, and finished ahead of schedule.
Read the full case study here.
The traditional approach of fixing a trim or a vegetation growth maintenance cycle makes it vulnerable to risks. This easily drives up costs and significantly increasing the chances for outages.
KYRO powered with AI Copilot feature helps you analyze the historical data and real-time inputs to predict vegetation growth and prioritize maintenance. With rich dataset from the inspections, that you have in your hand, you can ask AI to help you identify the growth trends and high-risk zones.
This way, you can proactively plan with targeted trims, manage vegetation effectively, eliminate redundant work, and improve reliability.
KYRO has incredible features that help you get utility vegetation management projects done on time, with accuracy, and without any delays. If the inspections are done as per priorities, and the necessary steps are then taken to clear the vegetation growth, the power grids are safe, and so are the communities. This also cuts inspection time by half, saves you cost, and resources.
Along with its powerful features, KYRO is easy-to-use. Unlike other UVM apps, it doesn’t demand a steep learning curve. Meaning, anybody can start using it right away. There are no long and complex onboarding steps and it’s real quick.
Want to give it a try? Request a free demo today and see how it can add value to your vegetation management strategy.