Enerza is developing a robot named Boa that uses 5G to snake across power lines and report looming problems to utility companies. Presented by TMobileBusiness.
In May, southern Ontario was hit by the sixth costliest storm in Canadian history. Nearly a million utility customers"Remote areas suffer quite a bit from utility outages," said James Aein, CEO of, a 5G startup based in Toronto. Enerza is prototyping and patenting a robot named Boa that snakes across power lines to report back to utility companies on looming problems — and potentially prevent mass outages before they start.
"When an outage happens, a utility company doesn't know where the outage is or why it happens until a customer calls," Aein told Insider."That leaves a five kilometer radius of where the precise power line experiencing the problem could be."Some of the most common causes of power outages are vegetation and encroachment. When a branch hovering near a power line is hit by a gust of wind during a storm and snags, an outage is nearly inevitable.
"We can detect, by the pole, where the next utility outage may come from," Aein explained."This wouldn't be doable without 5G. The alternative would have been data-dumping from each robot onto a router. Routers could take days or weeks to upload the data that Boa collects. 5G is instantaneous." While countries are struggling with aging electrical infrastructure, Boa doesn't require municipalities to invest in modernizing their grids to be able to use the technology. Aein estimates that one Boa is required for every 50 kilometers of power lines and that a single Boa can monitor and report threats on up to 8,000 kilometers annually.
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