Utility inspection ROI calculator
For electricity, water and municipal utilities: count the substations, transformers, line sections and pump stations your crews inspect, then put the time you expect to save next to what Inspecable costs. The cost comes from the pricing page; every saving is your own estimate. An estimate, not a quote.
Your crews and office (sets the cost)
Your inspections today (sets the saving)
Your estimate of the time saved
These two figures are yours to set. They start at 10% and 50% only as a cautious placeholder: a phone does not make the drive to a substation or the walk down a line any shorter, so most of any saving is in the paperwork. They are not measured Inspecable results. If you can, time a few of your own inspections and report runs and use those numbers.
Inspecable, per month
R9 500
12 field users at R150, 2 admins at R250, 90 assets at R80. Year one adds R15 000 onboarding, once.
Time saved, per year, on your estimate
R156 450
447 hours at R350 an hour: 135 from inspections, 312 from reports and admin.
Pays back in
4.2 months
Then R42 450 a year net, after the subscription.
Prices in South African rand, excluding VAT.
Monthly billing; annual billing saves 10%. AI credits are usage-based and not included.
Every number traces back to our prices or your inputs
Cost
- Assets = substations + transformers + line sections + poles + pump stations, as you counted them
- Per month = field users × R150 + admins × R250 + assets × the asset rate
- Asset rate: R80 up to 200 assets, R75 above 200, R70 above 500, on every asset
- Year one = 12 months + R15 000 onboarding
Saving (your estimate)
- Inspection hours a month = inspections × minutes ÷ 60
- Admin hours a month = weekly hours × 4.33
- Hours saved a year = 12 × (inspection hours × your inspection share + admin hours × your admin share)
- Value saved = hours saved × cost of an hour
Payback
- Monthly net saving = value saved ÷ 12 − monthly cost
- Payback = onboarding fee ÷ monthly net saving
- If the monthly net saving is zero or less, it does not pay back at these inputs
- Travel time, outages avoided and audit findings are left out: put them in your business case in your own terms
About this calculator
How does the utility inspection ROI calculator work?
It is arithmetic on your own numbers. Monthly inspection hours (inspections × minutes ÷ 60) are multiplied by the share of inspection time you estimate you would save, and weekly admin hours × 4.33 by the share of admin time you estimate you would save. Both shares are your estimate. They are not measured Inspecable results.
Where does the Inspecable cost come from?
The pricing page: R150 per field user and R250 per admin per month, plus R80 per asset per month (R75 above 200 assets, R70 above 500, on every asset). Year one adds the once-off R15 000 onboarding fee. Prices exclude VAT and assume monthly billing.
Should every pole be an asset?
Only if you inspect and report on poles one by one. Many utilities register a line section or feeder as the asset and record pole defects against it. Count what you would actually inspect as a unit, because each registered asset is billed per month.
Run your own checklist on a phone, with no signal
A 14-day trial on the Safety & Compliance edition, no card. Time a few inspections and reports, then put the real numbers back in here.
Start from the free substation inspection checklist, or see how implementation runs, week by week.