Trimble’s leading UK distributor, KOREC, has announced the launch of the Trimble® FastMapTM Mobile Drainage Network Surveyor system, a high accuracy mapping solution developed by the Trimble Professional Services group. The system offers industry specific functionality for highways and drainage contactors working in the UK on behalf of the Highways Agency or utility water companies.
The new system is ideal for any contractor carrying out HADDMS (Highways Agency Digital Database Management System) surveys and has been developed as a direct response to new legislation due to be implemented in 2011*, which requires water and sewerage companies to adopt and survey all previously un-adopted sewers, for example, on private property.
The solution is pole mounted and is comprised of a Trimble R4 GNSS receiver capable of centimetre accuracy, a Trimble VRS NowTM real-time corrections service license (to achieve this accuracy in real-time) and Trimble FastMap Mobile Drainage Network Surveyor software running on a rugged Trimble Nomad® 900G handheld GPS data collection device.
Key functionality includes the option to move a manhole position to a current GPS position and automatically move all connecting pipes, complete an STC25 list of attributes about the manhole, draw a sketch of the assets and take a photograph of the exposed manhole chamber using a hi-resolution camera. Additionally, the software can be used to draw each connecting pipe by locking upstream and downstream manholes, record details of the pipe, and automatically calculate the pipe length and fall.
