{"id":428868,"date":"2021-08-03T10:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428868"},"modified":"2021-08-03T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T07:58:02","slug":"drones-to-keep-check-on-faults-in-power-lines-across-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/drones-to-keep-check-on-faults-in-power-lines-across-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones to keep check on faults in power lines across Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Energy minister Nitin Raut on Sunday announced that Maharashtra has 24 drones with video camera and thermal-vision cameras to check faults in power transmission lines across state. This will ensure speedy repair and restoration of supply for 3crore electricity consumers in a crisis situation. <\/p>\n<p>The drone cameras will fly at a height of 50 metres and can fly upto 15km for an hour on a single battery charge. The drones are equipped with ultra HD cameras which can take high resolution close-up photographs and videos of the towers and their components. The constant video recording allows better assessment of faults in the existing lines, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: Energy minister Nitin Raut on Sunday announced that Maharashtra has 24 drones with video camera and thermal-vision cameras to check faults in power transmission lines across state. This will ensure speedy repair and restoration of supply for 3crore electricity consumers in a crisis situation. The drone cameras will fly at a height of 50 metres and can fly upto 15km for an hour on a single battery charge. The drones are equipped with ultra HD cameras which can take high resolution close-up photographs and videos of the towers and their components. The constant video recording allows better assessment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}