GPS upgrade putting robots on the road to fast track major SA infrastructure projects

The time it takes to complete major road infrastructure projects will be considerably reduced as a result of significant satellite GPS upgrades under a joint Commonwealth Government, South Australian Government and private sector partnership. Federal Minister for Resources and Water, Keith Pitt, said the Commonwealth is making a $64 million investment nationally in upgrading GPS positioning capability, improving accuracy from metres to centimetres. In South Australia, this will significantly fast track certain works on the Port Wakefield Overpass and Highway Duplication process, with a robot called the ‘Tiny Surveyor’ able to complete line marking work in days, instead of weeks. “This collaborative public-private approach to establishing high-quality satellite positioning infrastructure through partnerships with the South Australian Government and

MiRTK provides consistency of connection on site for Hazell Bros Group

Jason Ward, Site Engineer, Hazell Bros Group, was working on a highway project doing some road-lining and over-taking lines when one of Aptella’ staff members told him about MiRTK internet enabled corrections for GNSS base stations. “Hazell Bros Group is a Civil Construction Company specialising in delivering civil projects of various types on roads, bridges, dams, pipelines, demolition in Tasmania and Queensland,” said Mr Ward. “We’re currently working on a highway road project and were facing challenges with the UHF network because we had a combination of a site that was quite spread out, so quite a bit of distance from one end to the other and then terrain problems, terrain where we couldn’t get a UHF signal