An important indicator of asset health and life expectancy in the electricity transmission system is the thermal condition of the assets, particularly assets within substations. The current practice to determine thermal condition involves manually taking thermal images, which requires multiple staff to travel to sites incurring operational cost, raises health and safety concerns during the current COVID pandemic and the images are not normalised making analysis difficult.

This call is seeking a solution that can obtain reliable thermal images of assets which effectively reflect their health condition with no or minimal human contact or involvement.