Electric Utility Operations

New Jersey Utility's Field Workers Locate Underground Utilities With Mixed Reality Headsets

Feb. 14, 2018

Augmented reality is helping a utility's field workforce to see underground infrastructure.

At Toms River Municipal Utility Authority, field workers can now locate underground utilities with the help of mixed reality headsets, according to ESRI. To develop the new solution, Meemim Inc. combined and customized three existing technologies--ESRI's GIS system, Microsoft's Azure cloud-computing service and Microsoft's HoloLens. This video shows the basic functionality of the system.

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Amy Fischbach | Amy Fischbach, EUO Contributing Editor

Amy Fischbach is the contributing editor for the Electric Utility Operations section of Transmission and Distribution World. She worked for Prism Business Media (now Penton) for eight years, most recently as the managing editor of Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro magazine. She is now working as a freelance writer and editor for B2B magazines. Amy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan.She serves as the national vice president of the American Society of Business Publication Editors. She can be reached at [email protected].