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Asset Inspection & Reality Capture

High-resolution visual, thermal, and oblique imagery capture designed to support remote asset condition assessments, defect identification, and comprehensive network auditing.

NM Group combines high-resolution forward-looking imagery (FLI), continuous aerial video, thermal sensors, and advanced reality capture technologies. We provide utilities with the definitive visual intelligence required to assess network health across vast transmission and distribution infrastructures without deploying hazardous foot patrols.

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Visual Asset Intelligence

Assess condition. Identify defects. Digitise your infrastructure.

Utility networks contain thousands of ageing structures that demand rigorous, routine assessment. Our reality capture workflows replace subjective field observations with permanent, high-fidelity visual and thermal datasets. From system-wide compliance patrols to targeted engineering investigations, we deliver the precise visual intelligence your teams need to identify component degradation, verify structural integrity, and optimise maintenance schedules, all from the safety of their desktops.

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FAQs

Our visual survey programmes comprehensively cover transmission towers, distribution poles, complex substations, critical conductor spans, and all associated overhead utility infrastructure.

FLI (also known as oblique imagery) provides high-resolution, multi-angle views of utility structures. This allows engineers to remotely inspect crossarms, insulators, and intricate hardware components that are otherwise invisible from standard top-down aerial mapping.

Yes. We deploy advanced radiometric infrared technologies alongside our visual sensors to detect temperature anomalies, hot spots, and failing splices before they cause critical network outages.

Outputs include georeferenced high-definition video files, detailed thermal anomaly reports, high-resolution structural imagery, and integrated asset condition databases, all securely accessible via the Caydence® platform.

Inspection Applications

Detailed visual inspection at network scale

Inspection data provides utilities with valuable information about asset condition and network performance without the need for extensive field visits.

  • Forward-Looking Imagery (FLI)

    Capture detailed, multi-angle views of towers, poles, and hardware components to perform rigorous desktop condition reviews and defect identification.

  • High-Definition Aerial Video

    Record continuous, geo-referenced HD video corridors to rapidly baseline network conditions, assess broad right-of-way health, and verify asset locations.

  • Radiometric Thermal Inspection

    Identify latent anomalies, failing connections, and overloaded components by detecting precise temperature variations through advanced infrared sensor arrays.

Supporting proactive asset management

Inspection data helps utilities make informed decisions about maintenance, asset condition and network performance.

  • De-Risk Field Inspections

    Drastically reduce the need for hazardous manual climbing, foot patrols, and prolonged helicopter hovering by executing comprehensive asset audits from a safe, desktop environment.

  • Proactive Maintenance Planning

    Move from reactive emergency repairs to predictive maintenance. Detect and document structural degradation, rust, or insulator damage long before they trigger costly operational failures.

  • Create Lasting Digital Records

    Build an authoritative, visually verifiable database of your entire network's condition to support historical trending, regulatory compliance audits, and future engineering upgrades.

Inspection Intelligence for Utility Networks

See more. Understand more.

Detailed inspection information helps utilities make more informed decisions about asset condition, maintenance priorities and network performance.

By combining high-resolution imagery, aerial video and advanced inspection technologies, NM Group provides the visual intelligence needed to support proactive asset management and long-term infrastructure planning.

  • Structure & Asset Inspection

    High-resolution imagery provides detailed views of towers, poles and associated infrastructure, supporting engineering assessment and asset condition review.

  • Corridor Video & Network Visibility

    Aerial video surveys provide a comprehensive view of network corridors, helping utilities understand conditions across large geographic areas.

Strategic Statement

Asset Intelligence for Utility Networks

Better visibility. Better decisions.

NM Group helps utilities develop a detailed visual understanding of network assets through imagery, video and reality capture technologies.

By providing accurate, accessible and repeatable inspection information, organisations can improve asset visibility, support maintenance planning and make more informed infrastructure decisions.

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Our specialists deliver mobile mapping and corridor survey solutions that support asset management, engineering and vegetation management programmes.

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