How Ausgrid cut inspection time by 60% with Orb
Ausgrid — NSW transmission and distribution network
60%
Reduction in post-flight review time
Ausgrid transmission towers in NSW — aerial view showing the scale of infrastructure that Orb now analyses automatically
Challenge
Ausgrid manages 50,000 km of transmission and distribution network across NSW. Their drone inspection program captured high-quality footage but the review process was a bottleneck — teams of inspectors spending weeks manually reviewing every flight to find defects.
Solution
Ausgrid integrated Orb into their existing drone inspection workflow. Footage from DJI Enterprise drones is uploaded directly to Orb after each flight. Within 4 hours, annotated findings — with severity scores, GPS coordinates, and asset IDs — are available in the Orb portal and pushed to their SAP PM system.
Results
- Post-flight review time reduced from 6 weeks to 48 hours
- 10× increase in number of defects identified per flight
- Full SAP PM integration — findings flow directly into work orders
- 100% audit-ready documentation for regulatory compliance