An inspection drone flying alongside the conductors of a rural overhead distribution line in New Zealand hill country.

Know more.Decide better.

Soon, every network will need to prove the condition of its assets. This is how.

Rubric turns high resolution imagery of your overhead conductors into an objective condition score for every span. Evidence, not an age-based estimate.

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The problem every network shares

Regulators now expect condition evidence behind every replacement decision. Most networks still rely on age based proxies, records and visual patrol. Capital decisions that have to survive a board, an auditor and a regulator deserve better proof.

Rubric provides the evidence networks need.

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What Rubric does

  • Open sky above a treeline with an inspection drone at altitude.

    Capture.

    High-resolution imagery of your network, flown by you, a partner, or us.

  • Open sky above a treeline with an inspection drone at altitude.

    Score.

    Every span graded against an industry recognised condition scale.

  • Open sky above a treeline with an inspection drone at altitude.

    Find.

    Defects and faults such as broken strands, joins, bulging, spatter, identified and located.

  • Open sky above a treeline with an inspection drone at altitude.

    Decide.

    Output built to land in the systems and plans you already run.

Why is Rubric different?

Rubric was built inside Unison Networks to solve a problem it had seen developing for more than a decade – a problem shared by electricity distributors across Australasia.

The result is a condition score not based on opinion. It’s grounded in science, physical tensile and conductor performance testing, and tied to a recognised visual condition scale.

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An inspection drone hovering beside the crossarm of a timber power pole.

Who Rubric is for

Rubric is built for the people who own network decisions and have to defend them, whether that's justifying a capital spend, prioritising a maintenance programme, or proving a replacement was the right call.

  • Asset managers who have to build the case.

  • Network leaders who have to sign it.

  • Anyone who has to answer to network safety, reliability and risk.

  • “Occasionally you’ll pull down a conductor and you think, oh, why did we do that? And alternatively, we have conductors falling down that we weren’t aware of.”
    Asset manager, North Island network
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