Currently, field service workforces planning, installing and maintaining utility network infrastructure are still operating almost universally with paper maps, tape measures and pencils. At the same time, utility and telco industries have gone through a period of corporatization and privatization. As a result, asset owners began hiring contractors to carry out the design, construction, and maintenance of the networks. Today, there can be multiple levels of contractors, at the bottom of which are poorly trained field staff, with short-term employment expectations and little knowledge about the fieldwork.
A state-of-the-art software, utilizing disruptive technologies could prove highly beneficial for such workers who can become more aware of the surroundings they are working in. Embracing the current trends and augmented reality technology, Augview Ltd has developed a mobile application, which allows users to visualize underground entities that they cannot see with the naked eye, as well as check and edit asset data from the field.
Resolving Issues of the Utility & Construction Market with AR Technology Software
Augview Ltd is an AR software development company, specialized in the visualization of asset management data. The firm integrates AR technology into its services to satisfy the growing needs of the utilities and construction market. Augview offers benefits such as avoiding asset damage cost, increasing filed operational efficiency, reducing data management cost, and increasing health and safety. Originally, the company sought out the utility sector as its prime target audience for business. However, individuals from different industries have also been using Augview to resolve their own specific business problems, such as follows:
- PIM.Info, a civil engineering design consultancy in the Netherlands is using the AR-driven software to visualize 3D models of buildings, before they even begin the construction process.
- A sub-contractor to a utility company in New Zealand is leveraging Augview’s data capture facility to gather as-built information and making it ready for an update into their client’s asset database.
- Radiation Safety in the USA has been utilizing Augview at nuclear power plants to view underground pipework and later update information into the plant proprietor’s database.
Augview App: An Augmented Reality Asset Management Solution for Businesses
The Augview app is a new disruptive asset management technology that shows asset data such as buried cables or pipes, on handheld devices like smartphones and tablets. The simply downloadable application draws data from single or multiple GIS databases. The application then dynamically generates a 3D model of the asset network which it overlays on the camera/video stream of the device. From this, field workforces in the utility and construction market can visualize underground assets, such as pipes and cables. The device’s sensors such as accelerometer, compass, and GPS tracking keeps the model aligned correctly with respect to the camera position and orientation. The user may choose to examine features in either virtual reality (VR), or AR mode. The application has a variety of data capture, edit and update features, which allow field workers to seize details of new or upgraded work and feed it effortlessly into the asset owner’s GIS database, with the necessary permission controls in place.
A Multidimensional Leader behind Augview’s Market Prowess
Mike Bundock, the Founder and CEO of Augview Ltd established the company to resolve the existing issues related to the geospatial industry. After completing his MSc from the University of Waikato, Mike began working in this industry and today, holds 40+ years of industry-rich expertise of the GIS market. He has also been actively involved with multiple start-ups and GIS product development stages. Mike aided the foundation of Smallworld Systems in the UK, Australia, and NZ before the successful Nasdaq IPO. Afterwards, Mike was involved in the foundation of NZ company, eMap Ltd and then its acquisition of Terralink from the New Zealand government.
As the CEO of Augview, Mike has been leading the disruptive software company with his sound industry insights and technological skills. Therefore, under his visionary leadership, Augview has received several prestigious awards and recognitions. To name a few, it has been a winner of Innovation & Commercialisation and Supreme Awards at 2014, NZ Spatial Excellence Awards and a winner of Innovation & Commercialisation Award at 2014, Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards.
Augview’s Agenda for 2019
For organizations to remain relevant and successful, it is necessary to achieve its pre-set goals while also planning a strategic future for continued growth and success. For this year, Augview is looking forward to accomplishing the following new objectives.
- To establish a solid clientele base for recurring revenue.
- Acquire new businesses in the same market sectors by utilizing values delivered to the established customers as a reference point.
- Form alliances with relevant and complementary organizations such as GIS consultants and transformation management agencies in key geographic markets such as Australia, Malaysia, and Europe where Augview has gained popularity.
Augview’s Future Plans including AR Glasses
Augview plans to raise market awareness of AR technology and accelerate its customer adoptions. In 2020, with the expected arrival of user-friendly AR glasses, it is planning to make the Augview app operational on these devices. At present, the app has already been tested to work with AR glasses and all that remains is to configure it to specific models of AR glasses.
Guidance for Aspiring Software Developers
Being an industry expert and tech enthusiast, Mike shares a few valuable tips to become a proficient software developer. Mike suggests that software developers must think about what kind of problems they are trying to solve with their software. Specifically, they must keep in mind what benefits the developed software will deliver, such as saving money and time, avoid extra costs, reduce complexity and risk, as well as increase safety, and enhanced availability. Therefore, the competent software developer should always begin a project while keeping its end in mind.
Currently, field service workforces planning, installing and maintaining utility network infrastructure are still operating almost universally with paper maps, tape measures and pencils. At the same time, utility and telco industries have gone through a period of corporatization and privatization. As a result, asset owners began hiring contractors to carry out the design, construction, and maintenance of the networks. Today, there can be multiple levels of contractors, at the bottom of which are poorly trained field staff, with short-term employment expectations and little knowledge about the fieldwork.
A state-of-the-art software, utilizing disruptive technologies could prove highly beneficial for such workers who can become more aware of the surroundings they are working in. Embracing the current trends and augmented reality technology, Augview Ltd has developed a mobile application, which allows users to visualize underground entities that they cannot see with the naked eye, as well as check and edit asset data from the field.
Resolving Issues of the Utility & Construction Market with AR Technology Software
AugviewLtd is an AR software development company, specialized in the visualization of asset management data. The firm integrates AR technology into its services to satisfy the growing needs of the utilities and construction market. Augview offers benefits such as avoiding asset damage cost, increasing filed operational efficiency, reducing data management cost, and increasing health and safety. Originally, the company sought out the utility sector as its prime target audience for business. However, individuals from different industries have also been using Augview to resolve their own specific business problems, such as follows:
- PIM.Info, a civil engineering design consultancy in the Netherlands is using the AR-driven software to visualize 3D models of buildings, before they even begin the construction process.
- A sub-contractor to a utility company in New Zealand is leveraging Augview’s data capture facility to gather as-built information and making it ready for an update into their client’s asset database.
- Radiation Safety in the USA has been utilizing Augview at nuclear power plants to view underground pipework and later update information into the plant proprietor’s database.
Augview App: An Augmented Reality Asset Management Solution for Businesses
The Augview app is a new disruptive asset management technology that shows asset data such as buried cables or pipes, on handheld devices like smartphones and tablets. The simply downloadable application draws data from single or multiple GIS databases. The application then dynamically generates a 3D model of the asset network which it overlays on the camera/video stream of the device. From this, field workforces in the utility and construction market can visualize underground assets, such as pipes and cables. The device’s sensors such as accelerometer, compass, and GPS tracking keeps the model aligned correctly with respect to the camera position and orientation. The user may choose to examine features in either virtual reality (VR), or AR mode. The application has a variety of data capture, edit and update features, which allow field workers to seize details of new or upgraded work and feed it effortlessly into the asset owner’s GIS database, with the necessary permission controls in place.
A Multidimensional Leader behind Augview’s Market Prowess
Mike Bundock, the Founder and CEO of Augview Ltd established the company to resolve the existing issues related to the geospatial industry. After completing his MSc from the University of Waikato, Mike began working in this industry and today, holds 40+ years of industry-rich expertise of the GIS market. He has also been actively involved with multiple start-ups and GIS product development stages. Mike aided the foundation of Smallworld Systems in the UK, Australia, and NZ before the successful Nasdaq IPO. Afterwards, Mike was involved in the foundation of NZ company, eMap Ltd and then its acquisition of Terralink from the New Zealand government.
As the CEO of Augview, Mike has been leading the disruptive software company with his sound industry insights and technological skills. Therefore, under his visionary leadership, Augview has received several prestigious awards and recognitions. To name a few, it has been a winner of Innovation & Commercialisation and Supreme Awards at 2014, NZ Spatial Excellence Awards and a winner of Innovation & Commercialisation Award at 2014, Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards.
Augview’s Agenda for 2019
For organizations to remain relevant and successful, it is necessary to achieve its pre-set goals while also planning a strategic future for continued growth and success. For this year, Augview is looking forward to accomplishing the following new objectives.
- To establish a solid clientele base for recurring revenue.
- Acquire new businesses in the same market sectors by utilizing values delivered to the established customers as a reference point.
- Form alliances with relevant and complementary organizations such as GIS consultants and transformation management agencies in key geographic markets such as Australia, Malaysia, and Europe where Augview has gained popularity.
Augview’s Future Plans including AR Glasses
Augview plans to raise market awareness of AR technology and accelerate its customer adoptions. In 2020, with the expected arrival of user-friendly AR glasses, it is planning to make the Augview app operational on these devices. At present, the app has already been tested to work with AR glasses and all that remains is to configure it to specific models of AR glasses.
Guidance for Aspiring Software Developers
Being an industry expert and tech enthusiast, Mike shares a few valuable tips to become a proficient software developer. Mike suggests that software developers must think about what kind of problems they are trying to solve with their software. Specifically, they must keep in mind what benefits the developed software will deliver, such as saving money and time, avoid extra costs, reduce complexity and risk, as well as increase safety, and enhanced availability. Therefore, the competent software developer should always begin a project while keeping its end in mind.
