VoltGrid displaces the hardware, licenses, and headcount of a traditional enterprise GIS stack — and consolidates the drone tool, desktop GIS, BIM viewer, and field comms app into one workstation. Faster storm damage assessment, fewer truck rolls, one budget line. The figures below are illustrative planning targets drawn from internal documents; validate them against your own environment.
* Illustrative targets from internal planning documents.
Same capability footprint for the GIS team, a fraction of the cost — because there's no server room, no per-core licensing, and no dedicated admin to keep the stack alive.
| Component | Traditional (annual) | VoltGrid (annual) |
|---|---|---|
| Server hardware | $15,000 | $0 |
| Software licenses | $25,000 | included |
| IT personnel (0.5 FTE) | $50,000 | $0 |
| Maintenance & support | $10,000 | $1,000 |
| Power / cooling / DR | $13,000 | $0 |
| Total | $113,000 | $8,000 |
* 5-year TCO: $565,000 traditional vs. $32,000 for VoltGrid — a $533,000 avoidance a utility can redirect to line work, inspections, and vegetation programs. Illustrative.
Hours saved per GIS analyst compound across the team — and during storm response, minutes saved on the map mean fewer wasted truck rolls and faster restoration.
| Task | Traditional | VoltGrid | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share a 10 GB corridor LiDAR / imagery collect | 45 min | 30 sec | 98.9% |
| Stand up storm-response collaboration | 2 hours | 2 min | 98.3% |
| Push field edits to the shared picture | 30 min | real-time | 100% |
| From post-storm imagery to damage-assessment map | 4 hours | 15 min | 94% |
* Illustrative time-savings from internal planning docs.
Draft tiers from internal planning — final pricing to be confirmed.
For small GIS teams, co-ops, and munis getting started.
For multi-department utilities — GIS, engineering, vegetation, and field ops.
For utility-wide rollouts and GRID State pairings.
* Package definitions and prices are draft planning targets, not finalized offers.
+$1,400 net
License + training vs. enterprise GIS infrastructure avoided.
+$38,250 net
Analyst productivity and consolidated tooling realized.
+$124,500 net
New inspection and corridor programs enabled.
+$282,000
Net value created — before the first storm season.
* Illustrative ROI timeline from internal planning docs.
Schedule a free value assessment or pilot — we'll model the numbers against your territory, your crews, and your storm history.
