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 Field Editor for T&D World magazine and manages the Electric Utility Operations section. She is the host of the Line Life Podcast, which celebrates the grit, courage and inspirational teamwork of the line trade. She also works on the annual Lineworker Supplement and the Vegetation Management Supplement as well as the Lineman Life and Lineman's Rodeo News enewsletters. Amy also covers events such as the Trees & Utilities conference and the International Lineman's Rodeo. She is the past president of the ASBPE Educational Foundation and ASBPE and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Kansas State University. She can be reached at [email protected].