Cable Location With Integrated GPS Technology

Location of buried services provides a constant strain to all building and civil engineering related projects. In today’s congested environment, it is imperative to locate services accurately and record these locations with pin point accuracy.

It’s pin point accuracy that is the key to saving lives. Cable avoidance tools are now powerful enough to trace a single service, provide depth estimation and warn if the instrument has been tilted, causing an error in their readings.

But, detailing the service and marking areas of a search has always been left to pen and paper. That is to say, a hand drawn diagram of the area surveyed is often sketched, not to scale or precise. Misinterpretation of the diagram can cause people to dig in areas that contain buried services, resulting in a cable strike and damage to the utility.

Recent upgrades to the utility infrastructure has required all services to be located to the highest accuracy and records kept digitally for historical reference. Until now the only way to record the location of a buried service, is first locate with a cable avoidance tool and then use a separate GPS device to log the location.

Cable Detection has overcome these problems by incorporating high accuracy, digital cable avoidance equipment with built-in GPS location technology.

GPS Positioning
The intelligent Cable Detection EZiCAT i700, EZiCAT i750, EZiCAT i750xf are the first cable locators to feature fully integrated internal GPS technology, which is used to record the geographical position of use.

The geographical position (Latitude and Longitude) is stored in the log file and provides information on where the locator was used. This information can then be transferred via Bluetooth to LOGiCAT software, making downloading and analysing the data quick and easy.

The GPS co-ordinates are recorded at second intervals and stored within the instruments internal memory. This ensures that all data relating to location of the service, activity of the instrument and geographical location is recorded.

Utilising the LOGiCAT software, managers can investigate and analyse the data. Points of interest can be identified and the service location can be recorded into a central database.

The recorded data can help identify training needs of users and for trace-ability of locating following a near miss, utility strike or similar incident.

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