Engineering Class drone data is a promising new class of tower intelligence that unlocks new uses cases and previously unexplored capabilities. For TIA-222 assessments, this class of data represents a significant step forward for the use of drones to offset climber activities.

Engineering Class drone data has the potential to shift many TIA-222 data collection requirements from manually gathered climber observations that require an onsite visit, to data collections that can be performed virtually – and increasingly automatic using AI-based digital twin platforms.

As the industry adopts drone data into TIA-222 assessment workflows, it’s important to know where drone data is useful and where a climber is required. In this short paper we outline the full TIA-222-H J.1 Maintenance and Condition Assessment checklist.