USING WAVEFORM DATA TO IDENTIFY AN INSPECTION ZONE FOR A RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Temporary outages or degradation of a resource, such as electric power, may be detected by identifying anomalies in waveform data collected by collection points. The collection points may be distributed throughout a resource distribution system and configured to communicate data to a headend system. The headend system processes the data to identify anomalies and to correlate waveform data collected by different collection points. The geographic locations of the collection points with correlated data are used to identify a geographic region. An unmanned aerial vehicle may be used to conduct an inspection of the geographic region and to collect inspection data. The inspection data may be communicated to the headend system. The waveform data and the inspection data may be used to determine the correct resources to deploy to address the cause of the anomaly.