Short clip: Fixing damages immediately with RFID

December 11, 2007, 9:31am PST | Length: 00:00:02
Pat Lawicki, CIO of PG&E describes how PG&E will start tagging transformers and poles with new RFID tags so line workers can more efficiently access and fix damages when accidents occur.

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Short clip: Fixing damages immediately with RFID

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>> Today it's fascinating but many people don't realize that we don't know you're out of power unless you call or maybe there's a car/pole accident where there's an emergency and an emergency agency contacts us and say there's been an accident and we have an outage here. In the future we'll know almost immediately that the power's not flowing to your house. And we'll also know which of your neighbors are also impacted by that car/pole accident. We'll know what asset is by the RFID tag that we have both on the transformers on the pole. We'll know what type of equipment it is. We'll know where all our crew is. I know the skill sets now through our HR system or the skill sets of the crew so we have the right people to actually fix it. We can have the material show up, the crew show up, we can fix the damage and you may not even know you had a power outage 'cause you may have been out of the home.

>> And when do you expect to have this vision made a reality?

>> That's what we're working on. And, as I said, we're probably 2 years into what's a 3 to 5 year vision for us to get there.

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