Built by engineers who spent careers in utility field operations
Fieldiq was founded in 2023 in Houston, Texas by a team of power systems engineers and data scientists who collectively spent over two decades at investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, and energy analytics companies — managing the exact distribution assets Fieldiq now monitors.
Why we built Fieldiq
Carlos Mendes spent 11 years in power systems engineering at an investor-owned utility, leading SCADA integration and asset management programs across a 40,000-asset service territory. He watched the same transformer failure pattern repeat: an asset developed a detectable signature weeks before failure, but no one caught it until after the outage.
The existing tools — generic vibration monitoring platforms designed for plant-floor equipment, periodic DGA testing, and fixed-interval CMMS work orders — weren't built for hundreds of field assets scattered across a distribution network. They were built for centralized facilities with permanent sensor infrastructure and operations personnel on-site.
Fieldiq is the tool Carlos would have wanted. Models calibrated to the electrical and thermal signatures of each distribution asset class. Infrastructure designed for sparse rural connectivity. Alerts that land in the SCADA alarm display where your operations staff already works.
The team
11 years in power systems engineering and distribution automation at an investor-owned utility. Led SCADA integration and asset management programs across a 40,000-asset service territory.
Previously built real-time anomaly detection pipelines for industrial sensor data at an energy analytics company, focusing on oil-field equipment health monitoring.
8 years as a distribution engineer at a regional utility co-op, responsible for transformer fleet management and recloser maintenance programs across rural Texas service territory.
Background in multivariate time-series modeling for industrial IoT, with prior work on pump and compressor health at a process-industry analytics firm.
Talk to the engineering team
We're a small team that talks directly with asset reliability engineers at every utility we work with. If you want to discuss your distribution maintenance program and whether Fieldiq could help, reach out directly.