Employing location-aware handheld augmented reality to assist utilities field personnel

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer

Employing mobile augmented reality (AR) to assist utility field personnel is a novel approach, which has
become considerable in recent years with the advent of AR applications running on handheld computing
devices. Unlike conventional solutions, AR provides a more intuitive interface to access complex underground
utility network data in the field. As a result, common field tasks concerning maintenance and
operation are accomplished more efficiently while reducing unintended damage and increasing general
safety on site. In this scope we present VIDENTE – an outdoor handheld AR system, which provides 3D
information of the local underground network infrastructure which is visualised to field personnel on a
handheld device.

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