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Geospatial Intelligence for the Electric Grid

Your desktop is now a grid-intelligence platform.

VoltGrid turns any Windows workstation into a complete, offline geospatial hub for transmission & distribution — PLS-CADD integration, NESC / NERC / IEEE transmission line analysis, CAD & BIM, substation digital twins, and the field-operations feeds utilities actually use. Pair optionally with GRID State for full operational workflows.

Tech Maven Geospatial · v1.4.0

The problem

Transmission data is trapped between PLS-CADD, GIS, and the field.

Grid Infrastructure · flagship

Eight analyses. One corridor. One workstation.

Findings are editable features · scenarios versioned (draft → review → approved → superseded) · KPI dashboard, timeline, compliance & report export.

Compliance · every analysis cited to a standard

Audit evidence points at NESC / NERC / IEEE — not "VoltGrid's number."

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NESC 2023 Rule 232-1

Table 232-1 ground clearances — 6 voltage classes × 4 crossing types (road, pedestrian, railroad, navigable water). Operator-overridable per scenario.

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NESC Grade B / C

Structure loading — wind + radial ice + conductor weight → resultant load, RBS utilization. Heavy-loading district defaults.

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IEEE 738-2012

Steady-state thermal rating — full heat-balance equation, two Nusselt correlations, Stefan-Boltzmann radiation, 15/30-min emergency ratings.

IEEE 516-2021 §5.3

Live-line Minimum Approach Distance — 16 voltage-class rows × 3 work categories (bare-hand, hot-stick, gloves), altitude-corrected.

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NERC FAC-003

Transmission vegetation — Border / Danger / Fall-in categorization against your utility's distances, priority rollup across the corridor.

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EPRI / IEEE 644

EMF — phasor-summed Biot-Savart magnetic field + Maxwell potential-coefficient matrix + complex-image electric field.

Plus CIGRE empirical galloping, Roon & Black sag-tension, and NESC-compliant Plan & Profile sheet generation. Every engine is open code in Src/LocalMapServer/Transmission/Engines/.

Grid Infrastructure · flagship

PLS-CADD, on the map — in one click.

  • Import PLS-CADD XML + KMZ exports as structures + conductors FeatureLayers.
  • Reproject from the engineer's planimetric CRS (default NAD83 / Texas Central ftUS) to WGS84 automatically.
  • Round-trip back to GPKG, GeoJSON, FileGDB, or PostGIS without losing attributes.
  • Both layers served through the in-process FeatureServer — the Transmission Analyzer picks them up directly.
POST /api/plscadd/convert
xml        = transmission.xml
kmz        = transmission.kmz
sourceSrid = 2277   // NAD83 / TX Central
targetSrid = 4326

→ 200 OK
structureCount: 142
conductorCount:  287
featureServer:
  /api/spatial/plscadd_.../0  // conductors
  /api/spatial/plscadd_.../1  // structures
Grid Infrastructure · flagship

Substations & field operations, on the same map.

🏙️

Substation digital twin

3D scan via SLPK / I3S, point clouds (LAS/LAZ/COPC), IFC BIM, roofer LoD2.2 buildings.

📐

CAD & BIM

DWG / DXF / DGN substation drawings, one-lines, profile plans, as-builts — georeferenced.

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Vehicle & asset tracking

StreamServer, OGC Moving Features, AIS, ADS-B, TAK, Skydio drones, GNSS/NMEA.

📶

IoT & sensors

OGC SensorThings / SOS, MQTT, Kafka — SCADA overlays, weather, fault indicators.

📷

Geotagged inspections

EXIF-tagged photos drop as pins with thumbnail popups + full metadata.

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Drone video (FMV)

MISB ST 0601 / STANAG 4609 KLV, DJI→MISB, optional YOLO-E AI sidecar.

Standalone · or pair with GRID State

Geospatial twin. Operational layer, optional.

VoltGrid is a complete standalone solution — asset inventory, transmission analysis, inspection workflows, and the field-operations map. For organizations that want the full business layer — work orders, crew dispatch, asset management — pair it with GRID State, our recommended operational integration. No lock-in either way.

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VoltGrid alone

Geospatial twin + analysis + inspection + field-ops feeds.

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GRID State alone

Operational workflows: asset management, work orders, dispatch.

VoltGrid + GRID State

Recommended for end-to-end utility operations — geospatial + business layer.

Our solution

One desktop. Every capability.

An in-process ASP.NET Core server turns any Windows workstation into a complete, air-gapped geospatial hub — hosting, editing, analyzing, and sharing data across the LAN.

🖥️

No server

The desktop is the server.

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No cloud

Data stays on your network.

🆓

No license

No ArcGIS server required.

One platform · grid-first

Everything a utility team needs.

Transmission AnalyzerNew

NESC, NERC, IEEE 738 / 516 analyses.

🏗️

PLS-CADD IntegrationNew

Structures + conductors, in one click.

📐

CAD & BIM

Substation drawings on the map.

🌆

3D Visualization & Imagery

I3S, point clouds, COG, SAR, FMV.

📡

Real-Time & IoT Feeds

Tracking, SensorThings, MQTT, Kafka.

🗂️

Data Mastery & Sharing

30+ formats, served across the LAN.

Shipped in v1.1 – v1.2

Five capabilities that landed first.

🛰️

STAC

Search public catalogs & publish your own.

🗄️

Connectors

6 databases → MVT / OGC / FeatureServer.

🎬

Full Motion Video

STANAG/MISB KLV + DJI→MISB.

📐

CAD Import

DWG / DXF / DGN onto the map.

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Feeds & StreamServer

OGC feeds → Esri StreamLayer.

🔗

All offline

Served from the in-process host on :5059.

Platform architecture

Every format in. Every protocol out.

Platform architecture — formats in, open protocols out, clients across the LAN
The pipeline

Read it. Convert it. Serve it.

Data pipeline — ingest, in-process engine, serve
Deployment

One desktop serves the whole team.

LAN topology — one workstation serving browsers, TAK clients, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro, tablets, and Meshtastic mesh
The same platform serves government & defense

And for public-safety & government missions.

The same VoltGrid desktop that runs transmission analysis also serves as a full GEOINT workstation — TAK tactical comms, radar & SAR exploitation, imagery intelligence, local AI, RF sensing, offline routing, GIS-server emulation, SharePoint, commercial imagery tasking, 3D reconstruction, and a plugin SDK. One platform; two missions.

28
capabilities on the map
90+
searchable tools
12+
serve protocols
100%
offline-capable
New · TAK & tactical ops New

The COP that speaks CoT.

  • TAK Server via STOMP mTLS-wss — or UDP multicast, fully air-gapped.
  • Blue-force overlay, GeoChat, missions, alerts, geofencing.
  • Mission Board kanban + collaborative canvas + AAR timeline replay.
  • TAK Server admin dashboard (Marti REST proxy) + data packages.
  • MIL-STD-2525 / APP-6 symbology · CAS & MEDEVAC 9-Lines · CFF · Bullseye.
tak · data package
mission-pkg.zip
├─ manifest.xml
└─ contents/
   └─ cot.xml        // CoT events

● multicast · air-gapped
● geofence ALERT: BFT-2 exited AO
New · radar exploitation New

Radar tracks, CPA, squawk alerts — on the map.

  • ASTERIX CAT-048 ingestion over UDP multicast.
  • Live Track Table — callsign, squawk, flight level, speed, heading, ICAO24.
  • CPA calculator — closest point of approach between any two tracks.
  • Velocity vectors (3-min lookahead) · trails (last 30 positions).
  • Squawk alerting — 7500 / 7600 / 7700 auto-detected.
track table · illustrative
UAL231  3452  FL340  447kt  094°
DAL88   7700  FL180  322kt  201°
          └─ EMERGENCY · alerting

CPA(UAL231, DAL88)
 → 4.2 nm in 06:12 brg 142°
New · RF & passive sensing New

The RF spectrum, fused onto one map.

✈️

ADS-B + RemoteID

Aircraft & drones via readsb / dump978.

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AIS

Vessels via rtl_ais + NMEA decoding.

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APRS

Stations, WX, objects — RF + APRS-IS.

🔊

Audio scanners

Marine VHF · NOAA+SAME · CB · GMRS · MURS.

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IoT (rtl_433)

Weather stations, TPMS, ERT, sensors.

🦆

One DuckDB hub

Every source queryable + servable.

New · SAR & imagery intelligence New

See at night. See through clouds.

  • SAR amplitude viewing — Sentinel-1, speckle filtering, dB rendering.
  • ImageServer-grade IMINT: spectral indices (NDVI, NDWI, NBR…), rendering templates, sensor profiles.
  • YOLO-E detection: COG window → detect → georeferenced FeatureSet.
  • GEOINT annotation & PDF reporting · RPC mensuration with CE/LE.
exportImage
GET …/ImageServer/exportImage
    ?renderingRule=SarAmplitudeDb

→ analysis-ready backscatter
→ NDVI · NDWI · NBR on demand
New · AI / ML New

AI that never phones home.

  • Gemma 3 / Phi-4 local LLM — geospatial chatbot + NL→SQL over your layers.
  • SAM2 segmentation on imagery.
  • YOLO-E detection on stills and FMV — detections can broadcast as CoT.
  • llama.cpp sidecar on your hardware — no cloud AI, no data egress.
nl2sql · illustrative
// "vessels under 10kt near the port"
SELECT * FROM ais_tracks
WHERE sog < 10
  AND ST_DWithin(geom, port, 2000)
→ layer on the map
New · routing & navigation New

Turn-by-turn that never phones home.

  • In-process A* over your own DuckDB road graph — no OSRM, no Docker, no cloud.
  • Multi-waypoint solves with per-leg turn-by-turn.
  • Vehicle / foot / cycle modes · GPX 1.1 + KML 2.2 export.
  • City/region scale (~100k nodes) solves in <1s.
  • Optional Esri World Routing toggle when online (credits apply).
/api/routing/solve
{
  "origin": {"lat":34.05,"lon":-118.24},
  "dest":   {"lat":34.09,"lon":-118.36},
  "options": {"travelMode":"vehicle"}
}
→ route + legs + instructions
New · GIS servers & interop New

Speaks every server's language. Then becomes one.

🔽

Consume

ArcGIS Portal / Server / AGO, GeoServer, QGIS Server, MapServer.

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Emulate

FeatureServer · ImageServer · StreamServer · SceneServer · tiles.

🌐

Hub & Living AtlasNew

Browse, search, download, load-to-map.

🧰

GeoPackage Studio

Design, import, edit, export — plus Z editing.

🗾

GADM boundaries

3-level admin breakdown, offline.

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Connect-to-GIS

Discoverable catalog for QGIS / ArcGIS Pro.

New · SharePoint connector New

Your SharePoint lists are map layers now.

  • Any list becomes a FeatureLayer, vector tiles, or OGC Features.
  • Entra ID delegated sign-in (PKCE) — every edit attributed to the operator.
  • Five geometry shapes auto-detected — lat/lon, Geolocation, WKT, GeoJSON, address.
  • Edit in the attribute table — writes flow back via Microsoft Graph, delta sync refresh.
sharepoint
// Incident Reports list → layer
GET /api/spatial/{id}/FeatureServer
PATCH → Graph listItem ✓ written back
// delta sync: only changed rows
New · commercial imagery ordering New

Task the bird from the map.

  • Planet · Sentinel Hub · Skywatch · SkyFi — your own accounts.
  • Draw an AOI, filter by date / cloud cover, search four catalogs in one dialect.
  • Archive and tasking orders with live status polling.
  • Delivered scenes land as map layers; Sentinel Hub can live-stream tiles with no purchase.
  • The app never handles billing — every call runs under your credential.
/api/eo/search
{
  "aoi": "drawn bbox",
  "cloudCover": {"lt": 15},
  "source": "PSScene, sentinel-2-l2a"
}
→ unified EoScene[] · 🛒 order
New · 3D reconstruction & plugins New

Rebuild the city. Extend the platform.

🏗️

roofer LoD2.2

Point cloud + footprints → CityJSON building models (the 3DBAG engine).

🌲

FUSION/LDV

30-command forestry LiDAR toolkit.

Splat training

Postshot / COLMAP / OpenSplat pipeline.

🧩

Plugin SDKNew

One folder: manifest + .NET + TS tiers.

🔌

Extension points

REST routes, sidebar tools, workers, layer types.

📦

Drop-in install

No rebuild of the app — discovered at startup.

Why it wins

Unified where everything else is stovepiped.

CapabilityCommercial GISDefense systemsVoltGrid
Air-gapped operationlimitedyesyes, by default
Radar + imagery + TAK unifiednostovepipedone map
90+ searchable toolsnonoyes
Open data formatspartiallimitedGPKG · COG · DuckDB · OGC

* Comparative rows are positioning statements, not benchmark results.

Use cases · the new wave

Built for the operations floor.

New · STAC New

Search the world. Publish your own.

  • Browse Element 84 & Planetary Computer from one search box.
  • Auto-detects CQL2 vs the query extension; SAS signing handled.
  • Publish a folder of rasters + clouds as a STAC API 1.0.0 at /stac.
/stac/search
{
  "collections": ["sentinel-2-l2a"],
  "datetime": "2026-05/2026-06",
  "query": {"eo:cloud_cover":{"lt":10}}
}
→ ImageryTileLayer, signed
New · connectors New

Map the data you already have.

🐘

Postgres / PostGIS

postgres_scanner

🐬

MySQL

mysql_scanner

🗃️

SQLite · MSSQL

bundled + ODBC

📊

BigQuery

ADC attach

📋

Google Sheets

lat/long virtualized

🔌

3 facades

MVT · OGC · FeatureServer

New · Full Motion Video New

Drone video, geo-locked.

  • Parses MISB ST 0601 KLV; live RTSP/UDP/SRT streams.
  • Sensor footprint tracked on the map frame-by-frame.
  • DJI → STANAG conversion from SRT / flight logs / EXIF.
  • Optional YOLO-E object detection sidecar.
/api/fmv/dji-convert
// DJI clip + telemetry → STANAG .ts
POST /api/fmv/dji-convert
  file   = DJI_0012.MP4
  srt    = DJI_0012.SRT

→ MISB ST 0601 .ts
→ footprint on map ✓
New · CAD import New

Engineering plans meet the real world.

New · feeds & StreamServer New

Live feeds in. ArcGIS StreamLayer out.

  • Subscribe to SensorThings · SOS · GTFS-rt · Moving Features into DuckDB.
  • Raw WebSocket StreamServer speaks the Esri JSON protocol — no SignalR.
  • Per-subscriber where filters + DuckDB-backed history.
  • Meshtastic, TAK, GNSS tracks → native ArcGIS StreamLayer.
StreamServer
GET /api/stream/{id}/StreamServer
 → streamUrls[0].url

ws  /api/stream/{id}/subscribe
POST /api/stream/{id}/ingest
GET  /api/stream/{id}/query
     ?startMs=&endMs=

// paste URL into ArcGIS Pro
Featured release · feat/gpkg-3d-editor

Edit geospatial data in true 3DNew

  • Full Z + M ordinate round-tripping — ESRI JSON ↔ NTS ↔ GPKG blob.
  • ESRI-compatible FeatureServer REST contract.
  • Native ArcGIS Editor widget.
  • Schema-driven hasZ / hasM.
addFeatures
{
  "geometry": {
    "x":-74.006,
    "y":40.712,
    "z":1500.5
  }
}
// z preserved exactly ✓
Pillar 2 · desktop-as-a-server

Zero infrastructure. One click.

  • One-click activation — share in seconds.
  • Auto DHCP — zero manual configuration.
  • Universal access — any OGC/ESRI client.
  • Real-time monitoring of endpoint health.
localhost:5059
GET /api/features      OGC
GET /tiles/{z}/{x}/{y} raster
GET /cog/tiles/…       COG stream
GET /api/featureserver ESRI

● live on 192.168.1.24
Speaks every standard

Multi-protocol serving.

🌐

OGC API Features

Modern RESTful feature API.

🗺️

ESRI REST

FeatureServer / ImageServer.

🧊

3D Tiles

Streaming massive 3D.

Vector Tiles

Fast PBF rendering.

🖼️

COG

HTTP range streaming.

📊

SpatiaLite / DuckDB

ST_AsMVT analytics.

Pillar 3 · 3D visualization

Render every kind of 3D reality.

🏛️

I3S from .slpk

IntegratedMesh, 3DObject, Point.

Gaussian Splats

.ply/.splat/.spz via Spark.

📡

LiDAR Point Cloud

LAS/LAZ/COPC → I3S SLPK.

🧊

OGC 3D Tiles

iTowns streaming.

🖼️

Cloud GeoTIFF

Range-streamed imagery.

🌐

Scene Controls

Lighting, shadows, atmosphere.

Pillar 4 · analysis

Decide with the terrain.

  • Shadow & solar-potential analysis.
  • Viewshed, line-of-sight, slope & aspect.
  • Routing & multi-stop optimization.
  • Hot-spot, clustering, spatial statistics.
  • Elevation profiles & 3D measurement.
viewshed
{
  "observerZ": 100,
  "viewDistance": 1000
}
→ 360° visibility, mapped
Pillar 5 · real-time feeds

The world, live on your map.

🌋

USGS

Live earthquakes.

✈️

FAA / AIS

Aircraft & vessels.

📡

Meshtastic

Off-grid LoRa mesh.

🎯

TAK / CoT

ATAK / WinTAK / iTAK.

📻

APRS

Amateur radio positions.

🔌

IoT & Sensors

Custom device streams.

Pillar 6 · collaboration

One shared picture for the whole team.

💬

XMPP Chat

Local, open-standard.

📞

VoIP / WebRTC

Voice coordination.

📍

Team Awareness

Live positions & status.

All channels run over the in-process local server — your conversations never leave the network you control.

🔒
Security by design

Air-gapped. By default.

Runs entirely offline. Ideal for classified, regulated, and remote environments. Distributed by nature — any workstation becomes a server, so there's no single point of failure.

Under the hood · authoritative build

A modern, dependency-light stack.

* Reflects the .csproj / ARCHITECTURE.md build, not the stale README stack.

Target markets

Built for the field, the desk, and the edge.

🛡️

Defense & Intel

Secure classified sharing.

🚑

Emergency Response

Live damage assessment.

🏙️

Urban Planning

3D city models.

Utilities

Underground modeling.

⛏️

Natural Resources

Mining, forestry, geology.

🏛️

Government

Data sovereignty.

Use case scenarios

From data to decision in minutes.

* Scenario impact figures are illustrative planning targets.

Business impact *

The GIS server you don't have to buy.

94%
5-yr TCO reduction
90%
faster data sharing
3 mo
payback period
5-year TCOTraditionalVoltGrid
Total cost$565,000$32,000
Net avoided$533,000

* All ROI / TCO figures illustrative — from internal planning docs. Validate before publishing.

Competitive position

Why not the alternatives?

Enterprise GIS ServerCloud GISVoltGrid
Deploymentweekshours + cloud setupseconds
Hardwarededicatedcloud subscriptionexisting desktop
Data controlon-premleaves orgLAN-only
Offlinelimitednofully air-gapped
Costhighrecurringlow, fixed
Voices from the field *

“Network Data Sharing reduced our emergency response time by 45 minutes, potentially saving lives.”

— Emergency Management Director, Major Metropolitan Area

* Illustrative testimonial from internal planning docs. Replace with verified quotes.

Packages *

Choose your deployment.

$5K

Starter

5 users · basic training · email support.

$20K

Professional

25 users · priority support · full pillars.

Custom

Enterprise

Unlimited · dedicated success · air-gapped.

* Draft planning tiers — final pricing to be confirmed.

Where we're headed

The utility roadmap.

* Roadmap items are forward-looking and subject to change.

Geospatial Intelligence for the Electric Grid

Ready to see your corridor in VoltGrid?

Drop your PLS-CADD export on the map, run sag / clearance / vegetation analyses against your structures, and serve the results to every GIS client across the LAN — no cloud, no ArcGIS license, no infrastructure. Standalone, or pair with GRID State for the full operational layer.

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