Adaptive Grid
Demo: Add a new subdivision lateral extension
Adaptive Grid enables a field user to design grid extensions on a tablet.
Reduce your design and as-built backlog with IQGeo Adaptive Grid’s digital field design. See how quickly you can perform a digital design from the field for a new subdivision lateral extension.
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In this example, we're going to perform a digital design from the field in IQGeo. You can see here we have on the map a new subdivision lateral that we're going to build. We're on site here with our location turned on. And I am in an active version which we're calling here a design, which I've labeled new subdivision lateral extension. I'm going to open the staking wizard which operates in overhead or underground mode to go out and stake the new line extension that is being proposed. You can see here I can either tap on the map and get new rows within the staking wizard, each row being a feature that I can add to the design. And then I'm able to define other features at that location as well such as the fuse bank. You can see my location is active now. And in the field I'm going to begin walking into the construction site. And you can see that the system follows me here with a dotted line and gives me a distance calculation from my takeoff point. As I approach my location I have the target button here on the staking wizard that allows me to drop another point based off my user location rather than a tap on the map. You can then define the linear feature here which is going to be my overhead primary conductor which I'll give a phase designation of A and call it an overhead lateral. That is proposed installation. Now you can see there was lots of other attributes which are all configurable that I could define here. At this point I'll call this a wood pole. And I'm also going to install a guy wire at this location. And once I'm happy with that location I can continue on walking to the next point within my design. Notice that I'm designing from upstream to downstream. The system will build connectivity as I go. Notice also that after my second point here the system will also calculate an angle. So I'm at 27 .64 approximately degrees off of the previous point that was defined. We'll add another wood pole here. These are based off the palette which was shown in the previous example. So I can use these predefined features with all of the attributes filled out already. These could also have CUs pre-associated to them. And I'll add another guy anchor here as well. Let's go ahead and add a transformer. I'm going to use another palette item here. I have an A-phase transformer ready to go. Which I'll save. There is data validation built in. So this is marked mandatory here for type. But you can mark anything either mandatory or not mandatory. And the system will check that. Once I'm happy with my new lateral extension I'll go ahead and hit save. And you can see that it has digitized it here for me automatically. Not only has it built the new lateral but also it has calculated the bisects for these new guy wires. It's added my transformer. And it has filled out the connectivity tree here so that it is a live connected network. And I can do an upstream trace back to my fuse for example or beyond to the greater network. This is a way to easily and quickly design on site while in the field using precise locations of your device. This can also be configured with things like GNSS receivers for high accuracy and precision. And now that I've completed this design I can also export this to different file formats. I can also create and export automatically a bill of materials based on the associated features and compatible units. And create a high level construction overview print that can be used to instruct the crew on what needs to be done in the field when they go out to build this job.



