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Utilities are embracing virtual and augmented reality to bridge the industry's knowledge gap.
FREMONT, CA: The potential of AR and VR recapitulates to grow as utilities explore use cases and drive beyond pilot applications. As VR and AR move from the margins to the mainstream. These efforts intersect with possibilities made feasible by IoT technology sensors and connected devices that support to build a more integrated and widespread digital and physical landscape. Design models are emerging remarkably, with multidimensional screens giving access to tools that use sensors, voice, context, and digital content to support humans communicate naturally with the intelligent world throughout. AR takes what one sees in the real world and integrates it with actionable and related intelligence that can be used in remote circumstances. There are many ways in which utilities are evolving with the help of technology.
• Technical Andragogy
Technical training is the most crucial aspect for every employee in the utility sector. Thus, utility firms have always looked to incorporate effective training that can help beginners develop skills, and other workers updated with the latest knowledge. Conventionally, this training was in the form of interactive classes and information dispersal sessions. With the technology of AR and VR, utility firms can provide immersive training that will help learners experience what they see without being exposed to real machinery. These twin technologies can make workers job-ready easily and conveniently.
• Public Relations
Businesses are becoming consumer-centric, and the twin technology is helping the utility industry to ensure that users understand enterprises. Customers of the utility industry are keen to use resources responsibly. Demonstrating the new investments in infrastructure provides the customer with an insight into the scale and cost of significant engineering programs. The demonstrations help the customer get a detailed and transparent understanding of the payments made.
• Assisted Reality
In the utility space, the key to AR is offering valuable insights by making the right data available to the right person at the right time and place. Technicians can overlay a 3D model on an original piece of equipment. They may also see the internal components of a piece of equipment and explore its internal workings. The technology also advances operational safety, allowing for better visualization of underground assets and sophisticated elements, lessening accidents.
• On-Site Engineering
AR-VR provides interactive experiences to real-world environments by leveraging perceptual information and making it accessible to the engineers on-site and in the field. AR-VR capabilities can help engineers identify business anomalies, visualize & manipulate large amounts of data, build field force enablement support for technology-assisted remote maintenance. For field service use of AR and VR can deliver contextual documentation on-demand. It provides conceptualized and contextualized learning through immersive experiences and identifies opportunities for improved interactivity. The twin technologies make a direct contribution to the efficiency of the service team, mitigating risks and costs.
Power & utility employee training and retention are enhanced through the delivery of real-time, simulated coaching which leverage in-person walk-throughs, computer, and other technological tools. VR enables the delivery of realistic speculative scenario training to test protection and yielding protocols and improve safety procedure execution in the case of an emergency safety incident. On-demand VR training maximizes safety results while lessening overall costs. Implementing an AR overlay can provide workers with visual clues, process steps, indicators, and instructions for parts handling and servicing operations. Sensors on devices collect contextual information to aid in specific procedure steps.
