Antenna Survey

- Laser and RGB 3D Modeling
- Augment Network Checks
- Immediate Discovery Data
- Lower Risks for Inspections
- Shorter Inspection Time
- Effective Cost Reduction
- Catalogue of Sites and Antennas

Cell Tower Surveys

Problem: Telecom Italia is using an old and expensive optical instrument (Apogeo) to survey/elaborate antenna Tilt and Azimuth.

Reason: Inspections are necessary both for maintenance activities and for installation & test of new towers and antennas.

Goal: Deploy an effective and inexpensive solution avoiding the use of large drones and laser scanners.

Cell Tower Surveys

The solution is based on a 300 gram drone with thermal and HD camera, double GPS (GPS & Glonass) plus specific software.

- 3D Photogrammetry
- Optical visibility analysis to check microwave radio system connection.
- Tilt & Azimuth Elaboration of the antennas.
- POI (Point of interest) analysis to locate deteriorations of some specific elements.
- Create a register of digital tower & antenna data.

Exponent’s UTM portal Solution

- Cloud based UTM Dashboard to monitor all UAS operations including flight and payload data providing unparalleled visibility in UAV/RPAS Operations.
- The portal caters to aviation regulator’s need to integrate drones within civilian approved airspace.
- The portal allows authorities to manage a host of UAV/RPAS flight operation functions such as UAV/RPAS, Pilot, NOC management & Billing from a single operational console.
- Realtime monitoring data with automated alerts generated based upon customizable metrics as defined by the regulator.
- The portal has built in extensibility to allow enterprise deploy their own applications via API to enable payload data visualization and analytics.
- Coupled with Exponent’s Sky Commander Tracker (SIM enabled –currently 4G enabled).
- Data is stored and available for audit as a flight replay or as a data export for integration with 3rd party tools.
- Reports can be generated at the flight level or aggregated over time, pilot, RPAS, alert type or any combination of the above to provide a comprehensive analytical tool to study RPAS/UAV and ultimately pilot behaviours.

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