Deloitte’s Field Services Solutions

Ten key benefits of predictive vegetation management

By leveraging innovations such as drones, satellite surveillance, and predictive models with AI and machine learning, utility providers can improve:

1. Predictive maintenance: Automate analytics to manage vegetation and infrastructure assets
2. Mapping: Improve access and viewing options for maps and overlay information, and track devices in the field
3. Scheduling and dispatching: Plan and assign work, and create schedules for upcoming work
4. Queues and prioritization: View work queues with more clearly displayed priorities
5. Work orders: Capture information related to the individual work order for inspections and mitigations
6. Constraint management: Escalate and manage third-party constraints on work
7. Customer information: Record, source, access, and display information related to customers affected by work
8. Ongoing reporting: Report on information gathered or recorded in the platform
9. Inbox and messaging: Communicate within the platform between users outside of information captured on work orders
10. Time and expenses: Create expense requests, track time, and map time /expenses to work completed