b'Partner News Autumn 2022 31Corporate5G, however, is a new technology and one which even the largest networks in the UK are not yet managing to mobilise to its full capacity. Creating a completely bespoke 5G network in a location where normal cellular coverage does not reach was always going to be a challengeand if it wasnt, the UK Government would not be granting funding to trial the capabilities of the technology. While it has not been easy, the performance of the private 5G network is only getting stronger and more reliable. The aim is to create a solution which is plug and go, allowing our remotest sites to have 5G coverage from the outset.The 5G trial created a test bed for new technologiesproducts we believe could revolutionise the way we deliver our projects. While connectivity is essential to run all projects in the modern world, 5G offers a private and quick network from which we can run tech solutions. To date, we have trailed four new products in Shetland, some of which are already proving to be of benefit to the team.Perhaps the most eye-catching technology Covid had to be taken into hugecomes in the form of Boston Dynamics consideration in the management of thisrobot, Spot. While the other-worldly site. On an island which has thankfullyfour-legged robot has been used across had very few cases, we did not want tothe world, we are the first to trial it in a have a negative impact. We have a strictconstruction setting using 5G. Spot can testing programme, and any positivebe controlled in real time, remotely, from cases must enter immediate isolation anywhere in the world or programmed meaning the team is a person down.to run automated missions. Right now, it is being used as a surveying However, when one of our site supervisorstool with the Trimble X7 scanner as a tested positive, he accessed our BAMCAMpayload, but the scope for uses and feed from isolation. From there, he coulddifferent payloads is almost endless. see what was happening and manage the site by contacting members of hisAllowing Spot to collect data reduces team. The BAMCAM is a bespoke in-houseplant-people interface and allows engineers developed computer vision artificialto spend more time interpreting data, intelligence tool, and while its benefits forinstead of collecting it. Spot is also not site management and record are plentiful,a sentient being (until the robot uprising capturing the Northern Lights over theat least), so when, in the past, we would project is definitely an added bonus! have had to wait for areas to become safe to access, we can now send Spot in.The Plinx sensor solution mounted on hard hats is a personal safety device that alertsAll of this would not be possible without the wearer if they step out of the safecollaboration being at the heart of what working zone. The zone can be redrawnwe do. The support from our client to push each day to reflect the changing nature ofthe possibilities of what can be achieved a live construction site. The system can behas been paramount to the success of the assigned to roles and track people so wetrial. The team took on the challenge, were know where they are, and the system canopen to the possibilities and put in the even call SOS if someone falls. A systemground work to make sure they realised the like this could not work without a strongbenefits. DCMS trusted the vision for 5G and reliable internet connection, and 5Gin construction and what has been created enables it to be used at full capacity are solutions with endless possibilities for even somewhere as remote as Shetland. a future-proofed construction industry.Spot the robot.'