Efficient scheduling of maintenance for power distribution systems

A computer-implemented method for managing vegetation across a power distribution system, the method comprising:

• receiving, by a computer, voltage data from one or more of a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) sensor, an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) meter, and a power quality (PQ) sensor;
• receiving, by the computer, one or more images from one or more image sources;
• receiving, by the computer, prior vegetation growth data associated with a prior field visit;
• determining, by the computer, one or more locations of one or more voltage fault conditions based on the received voltage data, the one or more received images, and the received prior vegetation growth data;
• simultaneously, calculating, by the computer, a subscore corresponding to a number of downstream customers affected by one or more of the voltage fault conditions for each of the determined locations;
• simultaneously, calculating, by the computer, a subscore corresponding to the calculated vegetation growth data from the one or more received images for each of the determined locations;
• simultaneously, calculating, by the computer, a subscore corresponding to the voltage data from the one or more data sensors for each of the determined locations;
• receiving, by the computer, a weight value associated with each of the subscores;
• calculating, by the computer, a weighted score for each of the determined locations based on each of the calculated subscores and the received weight values;
• identifying, by the computer, a subset of one or more work orders from among a database of work orders, the subset of work orders corresponding to the one or more determined locations;
• determining, by the computer, a subset of locations from among the one or more locations based on each of the calculated weighted scores and the identified subset of work orders;
• scheduling, by the computer, a field visit based on the determined subset of locations;
• and
• receiving, by the computer, current vegetation growth data associated with the subset of locations after the scheduled field visit.