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How IoT Sensors Are Preventing Wildfires in the Power Grid
Wildfire season is getting worse, and power lines are often the spark. This episode zooms in on a specific case: Pacific Gas & Electric's deployment of high-resolution IoT sensors across 25,000 miles of transmission infrastructure in California. Lucas and Luna break down how these grid-mounted sensors—accelerometers, temperature probes, and humidity detectors—feed data into a machine-learning model that can predict line sag, vegetation contact, and conductor temperature in real time. They discuss the hardware cost (roughly $2,000 per sensor node), the data transmission challenge (edge…
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