{"id":24984,"date":"2020-11-27T12:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=24984"},"modified":"2020-11-27T12:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T12:39:05","slug":"the-clever-way-augmented-reality-may-help-rollout-full-fibre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/the-clever-way-augmented-reality-may-help-rollout-full-fibre.html","title":{"rendered":"The Clever Way Augmented Reality May Help Rollout Full Fibre"},"content":{"rendered":"

The on-going rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP networks across the UK, as well as in other countries, may soon be starting to benefit from the use of Augmented Reality. This can help engineers to see – with more clarity than ever – exactly what sort of infrastructure already exists under the surface.<\/p>\n

Not so many years ago if you wanted to dig new fibre optic cable into the ground then the tools at your disposal were much more limited and disruptive, but today a growing number of civil engineers are gaining access to modern technologies that can help to make the job easier, safer and faster. This in turn can also reduce the deployment cost, which makes it possible to reach more premises for the same money.<\/p>\n

Some recent examples of such improvements can be seen in various areas, such as Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) use of Ground Penetrating Radar<\/strong> (GPR) to help map existing infrastructure and design new cable routes (here<\/a>), or the more general adoption of compact Remote Controlled Mole Ploughing<\/strong> machines.<\/p>\n

One other area that is now starting to get quite a lot of attention is Mixed Reality<\/strong> (MR) and Augmented Reality<\/strong> (AR) systems, which can often be combined with other methods to help visualise exactly what already exists under the ground or plan for future work. Technologies like this, when correctly deployed and operating at a high-accuracy, can help to prevent incidents (i.e. damage to existing infrastructure) and thus delays.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Take the following “fully automated<\/em>” (i.e. doesn’t require manual 3D model preparations<\/span>) example from vGIS<\/a><\/strong>, where reality capture AR is draped over the physical world with sub-10cm accuracy and without external GNSS<\/strong> (Global Navigation Satellite<\/a> System<\/span><\/span>), using a patented GNSS-less calibration method.
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