MGISS and Leica Geosystems partner up for data-driven asset management

MGISS has signed a partnership agreement with Leica Geosystems to accelerate a data-driven approach to the capture, management and exploitation of asset information. MGISS is a leading UK-based geospatial technology company.

With artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and machine learning increasingly being used to drive value within utility and infrastructure organizations, it is essential that the asset data used is accurate and richly attributed to deliver the required results. Developments in digital twins, building information modelling (BIM) and geospatial information systems (GIS) are demonstrating the value of a data-driven approach to industry challenges surrounding productivity, resilience and asset performance.

Making authoritative asset information more accessible

MGISS has been serving the needs of utility, infrastructure and environmental clients for over a decade. With asset data management often seen as a cost centre, the team is keen to ensure clients can leverage their investment in asset information as part of MGISS’s development of insight services to build asset management as a value centre. By placing easy-to-use apps leveraging high-accuracy satellite positioning in the hands of field users, the capture, management and utilization of authoritative asset information has become more accessible to those tasked with maintaining the asset estate.

The inclusion of Leica Geosystems Zeno range of products to the portfolio will enable MGISS to operate with increased confidence across the UK’s utility, infrastructure and environmental communities to drive economic value, resilience and improved sustainability. The Zeno product range will allow MGISS to support its clients on their preferred Windows, iOS or Android platform and enable workflows that easily integrate with GIS systems including Esri.

Michael Darracott, managing director at MGISS, said that this partnership would strengthen their solution portfolio, support their plans for growth, and provide their customers with more readily integrated technologies to underpin their customer, operational and sustainability goals in an increasingly challenging environment. Jonn Hicks, managing director at Leica Geosystems (part of Hexagon), stated that it was an easy decision for them to partner with MGISS, and they are looking forward to working with MGISS to provide Leica Geosystems GNSS sensors to deliver accurate data for the asset management market.