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Success Story | Genesys International Uses Digital Twins to Increase Accuracy of Tower Inspections

Genesys Case Study Overview Organization:Ā Genesys International Corporation, Ltd.Location:Ā Mumbai, India Project Objectives: Perform inventory management through inspection automation Facilitate planning for a next generation 5G network Enable downstream workflow for engineering and BIM Products Used:Ā OpenTower iQ Facilitating a Previously Labor Intensive Process Due to the ever-increasing demand for data along with reliable connections, telecom owners are increasingly trying to digitalize their workflows to accurately understand available spaces, estimate tower ratings for proposed loading, understand defects and, more importantly, update 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 5G evolution, a major telecom company in India looked to its geospatial partner, Genesys International Corporation Ltd for help with digitalizing their workflow through tower inspection automation. Nikhil Jani, vice president, telecom and utilities at Genesys International responsible for the companyā€™s telecom and utilities business, said, ā€œTower inspections are typically manually intensive processes. Few telecom operators have current (as-built) data about all the equipment on their towers.ā€ Download Full Case Study

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7 Requirements for Proper Cell Tower Maintenance

With the recent uptick of telecom M&A, cell towers are changing hands faster than ever, but their inventory and engineering data donā€™t always survive the trip. New owners often discover that all the tower data available to them is a patchwork of outdated 2D CAD drawings, bunch of PDFs listing equipment installed on towers, hand sketches drawn by tower climbers, etc. After stitching it all together, many questions surrounding accurate asset information bubble up. Since there is no central source of truth to leverage for decision-making, reconciliation along with operating and maintaining tower infrastructure becomes a very difficult and costly process.

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Bentleyā€™s OpenTower iQ Automates the Creation of Digital Twins for Telecom Tower Design

Bentley Systems recently launched a new design product that automates the creation of digital twins for telecom towers. OpenTower iQ gives designers and contractors 3D visualization and predictive design for utility towers. It enables data captured by drones to be brought into 3D models and lets users incorporate artificial intelligence to inform design decisions using Bentley’s iTwin cloud service.

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From CAD to Digital Twins, Bentley Systems Visualizes Future of Infrastructure

Using computer programming, mere zeroes and ones, Bentley Systems has helped to build some really big things in the infrastructure space. Take, for example, the Sea-Tac Airport International arrivals facility in Washington State, Melbourne Rectangular Stadium in Australia, and the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit, MI and Canada. You can add to that thousands of cell towers.

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Realizing the Rewards of Digital Twins for Telecom Tower Industry

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,

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Bentley Acceleration Initiatives Launches OpenTower iQ, a Digital Co-Venture with Visual Intelligence and Aeroprotechnik for 5G Towers

Bentley Acceleration Initiatives today announced the availability of OpenTowerĀ® iQ, a digital twin solution ā€œpowered by iTwinā€ for telecom towers that provides 3D visualization, real-time decision support, and predictive design from the ground up. OpenTower iQ is the result of a digital co-venture between Bentley and Visual Intelligence, a Houston, Texas-based sensor technology company, and Aeroprotechnik, an aerial inspection engineering company based in Viseu, Portugal.

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Success Story | Tower Engineering Professionals Optimize Workflows with OpenTower

With the advancement of 4G and build-out of the 5G network occurring at about the same point in time for multiple carriersā€”and a significant percentage of carrier capital expenditure going toward micro cell sites to help densify urban population centers at the forefront of the industryā€” the macro telecommunications engineering industry has been shifting to cost sharing and thereby optimizing contracts between major carriers and tower owners.

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