{"57108":{"#nid":"57108","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Engineers Merge Technologies Used to Inspect Wooden Power Poles","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EResearchers from ECE and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are merging two technologies that are expected to reduce costs and increase the accuracy of inspecting millions of wooden crossarms that hold up power lines worldwide.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESusceptible to rot, wooden crossarms must be inspected and replaced periodically, or otherwise lines could collapse and cause outages. Such inspections have traditionally required workers to climb poles, hit the crossarm with a hammer and judge its condition by listening to the resulting ring. But these manual inspections are imprecise, time-consuming, costly, and hazardous.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENow, researchers have merged laser vibrometry and neural networks to create a remote inspection system that analyzes crossarms from the air. The team includes ECE Professor Ron Harley, NEETRAC research engineer Paul Springer, and GTRI research engineer Jim Mahaffey. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Researchers from ECE and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are merging two technologies that are expected to reduce costs and increase the accuracy of inspecting millions of wooden crossarms that hold up power lines worldwide.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Engineers Merge Technologies to Improve Inspection of Wooden Pow"}],"uid":"27168","created_gmt":"2008-09-10 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:18","author":"Rachel Ponder","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-09-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57109":{"id":"57109","type":"image","title":"Engineers working to improve wooden power poles","body":null,"created":"1449175664","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:44","changed":"1475894503","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:43","alt":"Engineers working to improve wooden power poles","file":{"fid":"190557","name":"tja95216.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tja95216_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tja95216_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":53065,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tja95216_0.jpg?itok=7E3ogr77"}}},"media_ids":["57109"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/casestudy\/picking-good-vibrations","title":"GTRI Article"},{"url":"http:\/\/faculty.ece.gatech.edu\/ron.harley","title":"Ron Harley"},{"url":"http:\/\/faculty.ece.gatech.edu\/paul.springer","title":"Paul Springer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.neetrac.gatech.edu\/","title":"National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"2435","name":"ECE"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}