On 29 May 2025 we will be guests at CVTS 2025, the symposium organised by TeV at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento.
During the demos planned for the event, we will have the opportunity to show how Arcoda concretely employs the latest Computer Vision technologies in the development of its innovative products dedicated to digitising and improving the work of distribution utilities.
We thank the organisers for inviting us to this interesting event.
Congratulations to our colleague Lorenzo Orlandi, who has successfully completed his PhD in Industrial Innovation at the University of Trento, culminating a journey that began in 2021 within the MMLab (Multimedia Signal Processing and Understanding Lab) research group of the university’s Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science.
His final thesis, titled “How the blend of physical and digital worlds is reshaping the industrial field”, analyzes the challenges posed by the integration of digital and physical worlds, with a specific focus on the application domain of Arcoda.
From Lorenzo’s extensive research efforts and with the support and expertise of the Arcoda team, 3D Photo Survey was born—an innovative system that revolutionizes key processes in distribution network management.
This technology enables the automatic generation of precise, realistic, and georeferenced 3D models of underground network excavation sites, using only a smartphone paired with a compact differential correction GPS receiver.
The resulting 3D models, viewable in augmented reality even after excavations are closed, streamline the management, traceability, maintenance, and safety of network infrastructure while reducing operational time and costs.
Once again, congratulations to Lorenzo for this remarkable achievement and for successfully translating academic research into tangible advancements in utility processes!
A quality digital data base is built over time, and is the result of significant investments in technology, process reorganisation and know-how building. It is therefore important to try to get the most out of the wealth of information that has been built up over time, which is why utilities decide to adopt the Arcoda Next app.
Thanks to this app and based on the data already available, network distributors get new, highly innovative functionalities, and make them available directly in the hands of field workers.
If, until now, your operators interacted with the company’s GIS with their smartphone, with Arcoda Next they will discover the full power of an app that can go one step further. Next connects information from your various GIS, ERP, CRM, document management systems and so on, integrating it into a single app that will harness this data to offer a range of innovative features.
Discover, for example, augmented reality on smartphones, which will allow your operators to explore distribution networks in a more realistic and immersive way.
Stability and performance are also outstanding: Next does not need internet connectivity, because it is a specially designed application that works 100 per cent server-independent.