For organizations managing a campus such as educational facilities, healthcare facilities, commercial real estate, utilities, and municipalities managing public works, storm sewer systems, and parks which are characterized by having many different utilities and and […]
The as-built update backlog is the time it takes for as-builts submitted from the field after completion of construction for newly installed network equipment to get entered into your utility GIS. It is generally measured […]
In France a national system for reducing damage to underground utilities during construction was initiated in 2013. The key features of the system are the requirement to notify utilities with the details of a proposed […]
Maintaining accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive data about assets, above ground and below ground, has been a challenge for utility and communications firms for decades. Now new technologies including machine learning and computer vision – based feature […]
The foundation for digital twins of cities, regions and nations are digital geometric models. Developing these models have become a priority for a number of jurisdictions around the world. To date the emphasis has been […]
Mixed reality applications for visualizing underground utilities in 3D have been available from many companies for years, but have not been widely used. There are signs this is changing. For example, vGIS is an augmented […]
Engineering design is typically done on a desktop computer, using CAD or BIM software. Models are viewed in 3D or 2D on a monitor. Increasingly they can be viewed in mixed reality. At a SPAR3D […]
Maintaining accurate, up-to-date GIS data has been a challenge for utility and communications firms for decades. Inefficient CAD/GIS workflows result in utility GIS quality degrading with time. Now with business drivers such as implementing a […]