Manage cell tower costs with easier installation planning, inspections, and maintenance
Monitor cell tower conditions from anywhere
gNext cell tower inspection software automatically processes your drone data for cell towers and telecommunications infrastructure inspections. Get 2D and 3D visualizations of your inspections, reporting, analytics, cloud storage, document management, and more. The gNext Platform offers the following benefits:
Monitor Maintenance
Audit Installed Equipment
Improve Staff Safety
Plan New Installations
Central Repository
Easy Implementation
How It Works
1. Collect data for your site survey to audit and plan equipment installations. You can collect it by drone, vehicle, or even in person – video or images.
2. Upload data to our secure cloud-based platform for processing. All you need is a browser connection. No software downloads.
3. Visually review data with a 2D or 3D model or map. Collaborate with your team wherever they are.
4. Take action faster with data for better site surveys, quality inspections, and continued maintenance.
Manage cell tower costs with the new cell tower inventory management module
Dial into your inventory of installed equipment with details like dimensions, angles, locations, altitude, equipment owner, Effective Projected Area (EPA), tenant information, equipment make and model, feedline type, status, associated documents, URLs to external sites, and more. You can also:
- Mockup new equipment installations to maximize your space and ensure optimal configuration
- More easily track equipment serial numbers, maintenance history and tenant information with enhanced annotations
- Ensure tenant compliance with precise equipment monitoring tools
- Learn more
Monitor maintenance in 2D and 3D
Collect your cell tower inspection footage, process with us, and deliver high-quality models and reports to take your inspections down from weeks…to hours. gNext makes it easy to perform remote engineering and networking planning tasks, and enhance wireless coverage and performance.
- Get automatic processesing with pre-selected asset types for lattice and mono cell towers and more
- Model layers include 3D mesh, point clouds, digital elevation models (DEM), terrain, contour and 2D orthophoto
- No image down sampling for the highest quality model
- Upload, stream, edit and annotate videos and 360 images
Audit installed equipment remotely
Perform quality digital inspections after equipment is installed with greater speed and lower costs. Easily deliver reports for a complete record of equipment mounted on your towers and their conditions.
We also offer a new module just for cell tower inventory management. Track, locate, and measure all cell tower equipment including antennas, cables, base transceiver stations, masts, and more.
- Cell tower inventory module includes: precise equipment-measuring tools, an antenna panel, tools for managing cell tower lease space, and a new annotation type for notes, files, and URLs
- Automatically generate inspection and annotation reports for easy auditing
- Machine learning and AI assist in detecting features of interest, areas of vulnerability, and more
- Export types: LAS/LAZ, OBJ, GeoTIFF, GeoJASON, and DXF
Improve staff safety
Automate tower inspections, remotely diagnose faults, and get a full picture of your tower conditions without climbing.
- Remotely calculate volumes, measure distances, grades, and more
- Light enhancement tools to brighten dark images and examine defect detail
- View drone images against the project for an easy point of reference against your digital twin
Plan new installations with accuracy
Take your time measuring and planning the precise locations of your installations from the safety of your computer.
- Measure spaces, draw, and annotate directly on your model or images to communicate with team members the precise location of planned installations
- Leverage change-over-time visualization with multiple data sets to spot areas of repair
Central repository keeps all your assets organized
Keep one source of truth for the easiest and most secure data management on your telecom infrastructure assets. Having a virtual repository for your videos, images, and other data makes it easy to track and manage conditions and save resources. View change-over-time comparisons of past inspections in one place.
- Secure, cloud-based solution with room for all your data
- Store video, images, and other data
- Access your projects on any internet-connected device with only a browser
- View the original images against the project for an easy point of reference. We never down sample images to give you the highest quality model possible
Easy to implement
No special training or photogrammetry skills are needed to use the gNext Platform. Our automatic processing and intuitive user interface allow you to simply upload and go.
Not using drones yet? No worries. You can use a combination of images- 360 or standard camera- or video to capture and document current conditions. Need help choosing a drone? We can point you in the right direction through our drone partners.
- Compatible with all drones and sensors
- Browser-based platform – no software downloads or installations required
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile
- API access
- Gigapixel processing allowance based on annual estimated data consumption
- Email and chat support
- Automatic cloud integration with Skydio 3D Scan autonomous drones
- Platform integration with Phase One. gNext ingests native IIQ files, eliminating the manual IIQ conversion step
- Platform integration with any WMTS Image Server including Esri, bringing all your data together to support current workflows
The gNext photogrammetry platform is miles ahead of the competition when it comes to steel lattice towers. The clarity of the surface model allows us to see things in the office that in the past would have required a repeat trip to the site. Amazing technology that is continually improving!
Joel Deis, President/Principal Engineer, Ridgeline Engineering Company