LibreEvery broken pole, located and photographed before the restoration erases it.
Assessors patrol ahead of the crews. LibreCam stamps each damaged asset with GPS and time, tags it by type, and turns a circuit's patrol into a report the storm center opens the same night.
A damage patrol, documented from the first span to the storm center
Patrol, classify, report. The crews that follow you need the location; the reimbursement that follows them needs the photo.
Patrol
- Each damaged asset wide, then close — pole, crossarm, transformer, conductor
- The pole tag or the nearest address in frame
- Several angles on anything that will be argued about later
- Hazards called out where they are: wires down, a leaning pole over a road
- Trees and debris on the line, with what they landed on
Classify
- Tag each find by asset: pole, crossarm, transformer, conductor, service
- Tag the cause where it's clear: tree, wind, flooding, vehicle
- Voice-caption the pole number and what the crew will need
- Flag the locations that need a bucket truck or a digger
- Mark anything that's a public-safety hazard first
Report
- Tap Generate: the circuit's patrol PDF, every photo stamped
- Sort by tag to see every broken pole on the circuit at once
- Share the link with the storm center and the crew leads
- Export the photos with their coordinates for the damage inventory
- The same record follows the location through restoration
The assessment is the first record, and often the only one
Damage assessment decides where crews go first and how many the utility calls in, and the same photos come back months later when the damage inventory gets assembled for reimbursement. By then the broken pole has been replaced, so the patrol photo is the only proof of what was there. What usually goes missing is the location and the type: a phone full of images of broken wood with no pole number and no coordinates. LibreCam stamps every photo with GPS and time, tags sort each find by asset and cause, and search pulls up a pole number or an address in seconds. The patrol becomes a PDF by circuit the same night, and the crews doing the storm restoration pick up the same record.
Built for assessors who patrol ahead of the crews
Coordinates on every find
GPS, time and weather tag themselves. Each damaged asset carries its location without anyone typing it.
Tags as the damage classification
Pole, crossarm, transformer, conductor, tree. Tag as you shoot and pull every broken pole on a circuit in one filter.
Find any pole in seconds
Search a pole number from a voice caption, an address or a tag. The patrol photo, and what the crew did after, come up together.
A patrol report by circuit
Select the patrol, tap Generate. Every find, stamped, tagged and captioned, in the order you walked it.
Coordinates into the utility's tools
Utilities that keep the damage inventory in their own system pull photos, tags and coordinates through the built-in MCP and API instead of retyping them.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. If your utility runs damage assessment in a GIS app, that stays the system of record. LibreCam is useful for the people who don't have a seat in it — contract assessors, mutual aid crews, retirees called back — and for the photo record itself, which exports with its coordinates.
FEMA's damage-assessment training says it plainly: photograph from multiple angles, include something for scale, and log the coordinates. Wide for context, close for detail, and a pole tag or an address in frame. LibreCam adds the GPS and time; the framing is yours.
No. LibreCam doesn't file, certify or calculate anything for FEMA or a state agency. It produces the photo record, with coordinates and time on each photo, that a damage inventory is built from.
Yes. Photos, tags and voice captions capture offline and sync when coverage comes back, resuming where they stopped instead of starting over.
Yes. Upload links let anyone add photos to a patrol without an account or an app download, and the storm center keeps control of the project and the share link.
Nothing. LibreCam is free for every assessor, every crew lead and everyone at the storm center who reviews the photos. The free plan is the product, not a trial.