MTS was the first in Russia to develop and launch its own geoplatform for creating and updating digital 3D maps of the area using satellite processing with generative artificial intelligence based on neural networks.
The innovation allows you to more accurately and quickly select locations for installing basic methods. Thanks to this, the quality of mobile communication services and the efficiency of investments in development will increase.
Previously, MTS purchased updated digital maps from external sources; specialists visualized topographical changes in the area and settings based on satellite data, and then manually made changes to the digital terrain models. This was taking too much time and now it must be reduced as soon as possible.
AI helps speed up the entire process: satellite high resolutions are automatically fed to a trained neural network, which in seconds performs a large amount of work on visual analysis and 3D identification of objects. As the company notes, vectorization of depicted objects occurs almost 10 times.
Planning a new network or modernization begins with a careful calculation of radio coverage based on digital maps of the area, which show relief, building features and subscriber connection points. Even where the network has been in operation for a long time, these parameters should be taken into account when analyzing the current state and future of the manufacturer in terms of network coverage and capacity. To improve the efficiency of radio planning, we initially changed more than 460 cities with more than 50 thousand inhabitants, where geodata requires constant updating and changing the urban landscape, ensuring population flows and movements.
The impetus for the creation of the geoplatform was a successful pilot project implemented in the period 2021-2022. The modern and continuous process of updating digital maps increases the accuracy of MTS network planning across Russia, and also improves the corresponding business processes that require cartographic calculations. This means not only improving the quality of our services and expanding the ecosystem, but also increasing the return on investment in the development of digital employment.
— Director of the MTS radio access network department Alexey Maslyankin
For clarity: a specialist in mapping software spends about 33 seconds processing an image of one building, a neural network – 3-4 seconds. Algorithms for automatically connecting building heights and their configurations using shadows or visible parts of walls for the construction of 3D models.
Source: Iphones RU
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