OpenTower Designer enables designers, engineers, and owner-operators to efficiently design, modify, manage, and maintain towers and validate their designs against multiple standards and codes – all within the same workflow and interface.
One of the priorities of the carriers or mobile network operators is to provide or expand 5G services to their users. 5G is faster, reaching peak data rates up to 20 Gbps and helping millions of people do more with their telecom and data services. It’s bringing the reliability needed to support high-pressure, high-impact industries that need data delivered instantaneously.
A study was performed with an existing MStower model. The model was migrated to OpenTower Designer, and a comparative analysis was performed between different outcomes of the two software.
We are now witnessing the tectonic shift of technology’s influence on business. As organizations are trying to remain competitive and increase their profitability, they are now reframing their goals and strategies, even if the mission remains the same.
The global 5G rollout has put pressure on tower owners and carriers to make equipment changes as quickly and inexpensively as possible. Even without the major push for 5G and the tower upgrades that come with it, cell towers need constant changes. Tower repairs and maintenance – including co-locating new tenants, new equipment installation, updating equipment, coverage optimization, and meeting government regulations – are a constant part of the tower lifecycle, and they’re critical to keeping their networks connected.
With this increase in cost sharing, and interest in multiple carriers co-locating on the same structure, there is also an increase in load cases and loading scenarios being requested during an analysis cycle.
Telecommunications service providers can maximize the return on investment (ROI) for tower assets by embracing technology and modernizing asset detection.
Due to the ever-increasing demand for data along with reliable connections, telecom owners are increasingly trying to digitize their workflow to accurately understand available spaces, estimate tower ratings for proposed loading, understand defects and more importantly updating their inventory with as-built information. The current process is manual, labor intensive, and expensive. As telecom infrastructure is now shared by multiple mobile network operators and as tower owners are adopting to 5G evolution, one major telecom company in India looked to its geospatial partner,
Johnson Broderick Engineering Case Study Overview Organization: Johnson Broderick Engineering, LLCLocation: Eugene, Oregon, USA Project Objectives: Accurate graphical representations of towers Ability to optimize analysis by evaluating multi-variable simulations Integrated solution, including tower, mount, and foundation analysis Products Used: OpenTower Designer The Visual, Virtual Difference Structural tower analysis has long been a tedious and somewhat complicated process requiring multiple iterations and considerable research and analysis to achieve optimal results. While specialized programs have helped deliver quality results, they have not evolved nor improved the methods. Aaron Broderick, Principal of Johnson Broderick Engineering, LLC, believes it’s time for engineers to adopt a visual approach to modernize tower analysis. He explained, “Older programs are kind of a black box that are fed information and spit out results. There’s no visual reference to where antennas or feed lines are located or what the equipment looked like and limited foundation analysis capabilities.” For Eugene, Oregon-based Johnson Broderick Engineering, LLC, advancements in visualization as well as expanded analytics are forever changing the tower analysis approach. Download Full Case Study