Introducing SSP Vision: Reduce Your As Built Update Backlog From Months to Minutes

March 4, 2022 — Peter Batty

It has been almost ten months since my previous blog post for SSP, shortly after I joined the company. I talked at a high level about my ideas in the area of “Automated Field Sourcing”: leveraging new technologies including computer vision, machine learning, and augmented reality to develop a dramatically different kind of mobile data capture application that is highly automated, and much simpler and faster than traditional data capture applications. I felt that there was potential to dramatically reduce the as built update backlog in utilities and telecom companies with this approach.

Since then, I have been busy working away with my team to turn these ideas into reality, and I am very pleased with the progress we have made. For several years I have believed that it was a matter of when rather than if these technologies would transform our industry, but until you actually get your hands dirty and build something, you don’t know whether they are really ready for prime time and able to deliver working production solutions. I can report based on our work over the past year that they are very much ready.

Our new SSP Vision product is now in beta testing and we plan to get the first production release out very shortly. We have intentionally been working on it in a semi-stealth mode so far, as we had a concept that was dramatically different from anything that we’ve seen anyone else doing, so we didn’t want to share too many details publicly.

But now as our first release is very close, I’m really excited to be able to share more about what we’ve been working on. I’ve played a significant role in a number of notable innovations in my 35 years in the geospatial industry, and I feel strongly that this is the most game-changing product that I’ve worked on.

I’ve created a ten-minute video that talks about the problems that we are addressing and how we solve them. I strongly encourage you to watch it, and please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

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4 comments

  • Cindi Salas says:

    If I were still in my former rOke within the geospatial technology world, I would be pounding on your doorstep TO be your beta tester and first customer.!! We have needed this for so long in the electric utility and gas distribution world.

    ThE potential cost savings and risk mitigation are profound.

    congratulations on the development of this technology and wishing SSP much success in further developing and implementing

  • I can also see this as a design tool, scan a bar code or use the voice feature to say what you want to install, then walk the path and it’s posted as a design.

  • Peter Batty says:

    Thanks for your kind words Cindy, they mean a lot from someone with your extensive experience in the industry! We are excited to get SSP Vision to the market and look forward to seeing where we can take it with our customers.

  • Peter Batty says:

    Thanks Jeff, appreciate your thoughts. I agree and have also thought about its potential as a design tool, and we will be looking further at this.

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