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How satellite IoT facilitates power grid monitoring?

Discover how Kinéis is transforming the monitoring of high-voltage lines for enhanced safety and efficiency in the electricity sector.

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At a glance

Issues

Costly inspections, difficult access, lack of connectivity: monitoring pylons and high-voltage lines in remote areas is a real challenge.

The result? Critical delays, increased risks and ineffective maintenance that weighs heavily on costs and safety.

Solutions

Thanks to satellite IoT, you can monitor your electrical infrastructures continuously, without network coverage constraints.

Kinéis ensures universal connectivity, early warning and adaptation to regulatory changes, even in the most remote areas.

Impacts

With Kinéis connectivity, there are no more off-the-radar zones.

Monitor your infrastructures continuously, reduce inspection costs by up to 30%, anticipate weather incidents and limit critical outages for optimum safety.

Monitor your Pylons and Power lines
with Satellite IoT

Discover how Kinéis can transform the monitoring electrical infrastructure.

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Issues

Why is monitoring electrical pylons and high-voltage lines so complex?

Electricity pylons are critical infrastructures for the distribution of energy over vast territories. Yet monitoring and maintaining them remains a major challenge for infrastructure managers.

Costly and inefficient inspections

Each site visit can cost between €40,000 and €100,000, with no guarantee of accurate anomaly detection. These time-consuming and dangerous manual inspections also expose teams to unnecessary health and safety risks.

Infrastructures vulnerable to climatic hazards

Storms, floods and fires weaken pylons and increase the risk of major incidents. In 1999, more than 23,000 pylons were damaged in France during violent storms, highlighting the fragility of power grids in the face of extreme climatic events.

Difficult access to pylons in remote areas

More than 85% of towers are located in remote areas, making surveillance difficult and irregular. Lack of access to infrastructure means longer response times and higher maintenance costs.

A lack of terrestrial connectivity

Less than 15% of the globe is covered by cellular networks, limiting the use of conventional IoT solutions for monitoring electrical infrastructures. Terrestrial technologies such as radio or fiber optics are often inefficient and costly in these environments.

An energy transition that makes infrastructure management even more complex

With the development of Smart Grids, the need to monitor and maintain electric networks is becoming even more critical.

Electric networks no longer operate with a single control center managing all distribution. Electricity now flows in both directions: it is produced in a more dispersed way, notably with renewable energies (wind, solar), and consumed in a more dynamic way. This evolution makes grid management more complex, as production and demand must be constantly balanced while integrating these new energy sources.

Faced with these challenges, traditional solutions based solely on human inspection and terrestrial networks are no longer sufficient.

The solution? Connected, continuous and autonomous monitoring thanks to satellite IoT.

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Electrical Infrastructure Monitoring: everything you need to know about Challenges and Solutions

Up to €100,000—that’s the cost of a single inspection of an electrical pylon.
When a storm strikes, it can bring down 23,000 pylons in just a few hours,

Isolated areas without terrestrial coverage

The regions most in need of digitization are often the least connected. Terrestrial coverage is too poor to guarantee effective monitoring, slowing deployment.

Infrastructures vulnerable to climatic hazards

Electricity pylons are exposed to the full force of more frequent and violent climatic hazards, exposing networks to increasing risks of damage

A growing demand for energy

With the increase in electrical uses (mobility, industry, housing), the sector's players have to respond to ever higher and more complex energy transmission requirements.

Solutions

Monitor your towers continuously, reduce risks and control costs

Kinéis transforms electricity pylon monitoring with satellite IoT, offering global coverage, proactive anomaly detection and near-real-time alerts, even in the most remote areas.

Intelligent, continuous monitoring

The smart sensors installed on the towers help you to :

Detect structural anomalies (inclination, corrosion, subsidence, abnormal vibrations).
Near-real-time monitoring of mechanical tension and line temperature to prevent incidents.
Continuously geolocate infrastructures and anticipate environmental risks.
Send instant alerts, enabling rapid intervention before a critical incident occurs.

Thanks to this approach, maintenance teams no longer travel blindly. They can prioritize critical interventions, reducing unnecessary visits and the associated costs.

Limitless connectivity

Spatial IoT frees electrical infrastructures from network constraints: reliable and continuous monitoring, everywhere, without dependence on terrestrial networks.

Rapid interventions and less risk

Thanks to automatic alerts, you can detect anomalies immediately and take action before a critical incident occurs.

Improved security everywhere

Monitor and protect your electrical networks, even in the most isolated environments exposed to the vagaries of the weather.

Secure, continuously accessible data

Data exchanges are encrypted and secure, to guarantee the availability of reliable, accurate information 24/7.

Impacts

What are the concrete benefits for pylons maintenance?

Adopting satellite IoT to monitor pylons and high-voltage lines is transforming energy infrastructure management, with concrete, measurable results.

1. A drastic reduction in inspection costs

Manual inspections of electricity pylons represent a significant cost for infrastructure operators. Thanks to satellite IoT monitoring, these expenses can be reduced by up to 30%. By eliminating unnecessary visits and optimizing interventions, technical teams travel only when necessary, limiting logistical costs and improving the efficiency of resources in the field.

2. More efficient, better-targeted maintenance

With continuous monitoring of pylons, anomalies are detected as soon as they occur, enabling action to be taken in a matter of hours rather than days or weeks. This proactive approach facilitates infrastructure management and considerably reduces the risk of critical outages, thus improving power system reliability.

3. Enhanced safety for infrastructures and teams

Extreme weather conditions, such as storms and heavy rainfall, weaken electricity pylons and increase the risk of serious incidents. By integrating intelligent sensors and near real-time monitoring, operators can anticipate these events and intervene before they cause major damage. What's more, by reducing the number of on-site inspections, maintenance teams are less exposed to hazards, guaranteeing greater safety in the field.

4. Regulatory compliance made easy

Environmental and safety standards require operators to rigorously monitor their infrastructures. Satellite IoT enables this compliance through accurate and secure data collection. Operators can generate detailed reports to prove the good condition of their facilities, and ensure full transparency to regulators.

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Anticipate breakdowns and reduce your costs

Instant detection of anomalies enables rapid intervention, avoiding costly repairs and unplanned downtime.

Secure your infrastructures against threats

Continuous monitoring protects your towers against climatic and human hazards, guaranteeing the stability and reliability of your network.

Connect isolated areas, strengthen energy resilience

Spatial IoT bridges connectivity gaps, helping to extend power grids, support local economies and ensure a stable energy supply.

Why choose Kinéis to monitor your electrical networks?

With a constellation of 25 nanosatellites dedicated to IoT, Kinéis offers global coverage and reliable connectivity, enabling continuous monitoring of electrical infrastructures, even in the most remote areas.

Worldwide coverage for uninterrupted monitoring

Thanks to its satellite network, Kinéis guarantees permanent surveillance of electricity pylons, even in areas off the terrestrial network. No need to rely on cellular or radio infrastructures: every anomaly is detected and transmitted in near-real time, optimizing the responsiveness of maintenance teams.

Sovereign, secure technology

Kinéis ensures total sovereignty over transmitted data, with technology developed and operated in France. The information collected is encrypted and secure, guaranteeing optimum protection of critical infrastructures and compliance with European cybersecurity regulations.

Advanced anomaly detection

Equipped with intelligent sensors, the towers monitored benefit from precise monitoring of inclination, vibration, mechanical tension and temperature variations. This data, collected continuously and transmitted rapidly, enables structural faults to be identified before they become critical, thus avoiding unscheduled interruptions.

Optimized costs and interventions

By reducing reliance on manual inspections, Kinéis enables electrical infrastructure operators to optimize their maintenance costs. Interventions are targeted on detected anomalies, eliminating unnecessary visits and reducing operational expenses.

With Kinéis, move from reactive management to proactive, predictive monitoring of your electrical pylons. Anticipate incidents, improve safety and reduce maintenance costs thanks to a reliable, innovative and totally autonomous solution.