Every water utility has the same challenges; how to ensure the quality of the water, minimize the losses from the pipeline network and reduce the environmental impacts of water supply. Continue reading…

We have worked with dozens of European ports and harbours in the last decade and have developed our survey and data management services to suit the port industry’s needs. In this article we will present our services for ports so you will have an idea on the topics we can help with. Continue reading…

The words digitising and digitalising are sometimes used as synonyms, which they are not. Digitising is converting data from analog to digital format. Digitalising, on the other hand, is using the digital data in your everyday business. Digital transformation is finally the stage where everything is done with a new, digital way, so that term refers more to people and behaviour than to assets and operations. Continue reading…

VRT’s 3D surveys produce georeferenced data of the surveyed assets or areas. Every single point of the point cloud has its XYZ coordinates in a defined coordinate system. The combination of RTK (Real Time Kinematics) and PPK (Post-Processing Kinematics) ensures that the data is accurate enough to be used in various asset management operations. Continue reading…

3D surveys of underwater assets have been the core business for VRT already for a decade. We have inspected hundreds of ports, bridges, hydropower plants and pipelines during those years. In the beginning we had a challenge to deliver the gathered 3D data to our clients, as very few of them had the software or skills to use the data. We printed out booklets of visualization pictures and sent them to our clients by post with the inspection report also on paper. Not a very high-tech approach! Continue reading…