Higgs s Hydrogr graph phic Tek is the exclusive ve U.S. dealer for the DigPilot, a 3D wireless excavator guidance system with its own GNSS receiver, provides you with complete control and accuracy over your construction site. DigPilot's 2D wireless system uses laser technology with the same accuracy to get the job done. Wireless sensors are placed on the boom, the arm and the bucket along with a compass mast sensor. An easy to read computer display screen located in the cab of the machine, shows the operator exactly where to dig. The DigPilot comes in one complete kit with everything you need to install the system on your excavator, bulldozer or wheel loader. For more information, check out our website www.higgshydrographictek.com
Machine guidance or Machine control in the construction business is the fastest growing automation business in the world.
Many modern aids in the construction business have there origins in Scandinavia The electronic distance meters, today found in modern total stations Machine control for excavators, 2D and 3D Rotating building lasers Roto-tilts for excavators
Focus is now on excavators and the machine guidance for them . Traditionally the «low end» machines on sites, the cheepest, used only for loading materials to trucks. This has changed.
With size ranging from 1 metric ton up to 70 metric tons it performs All material handling before done by humans The most accurate grading and preparations of surfaces: right up to adding grass seed. The complete preparations of heavy and smaller stones on roads and building sites.
Limiting to the speed and accuracy of excavators are the need to be accurate! Levelers, rotating and standing laserbeams, parallels and stakes are guidance to the driver to prepare his surface that we want to change it to Machine guidance. There is a built in laser sensor in the arm-sensor of each DigPilot kit!
Personnel on site, with approved steel toed boots and hardhats, are required to stay within the excavator work area with laser receivers in order to assist in guiding driving to reach target levels. The presence of personnel on site slows operator down trying to avoid them.
Rodman inside the radius of the machine working
The 2D system with 1 inch accuracy guides the machine operator to find level, slope, height below or above bench marks. 4 or 5 sensors on the machine, including a laser receiver and a compass give full control within the machines reach, the 360 degree circle around.
Add a 2 antenna heading GNSS rover to the system, and we can include a digital map on the screen and show the machine in real time upon the site surface. Accuracy and speed increases 2X In Norway NO job site is opened without Machine guidance in 2D or 3D installed on the machines.
Without DigPilot DigPilot Installed
Once started with electronic monitoring of the site, there is no going back. Surveyors have a very challenging and important task at all times to make sure the guidance systems on the machines are working and measuring correctly. The need to control machines and electronic maps «before – under – and after job» gets to a new level
” I do not say it is completely without problem to turn a complete industry over to a new way of Quote From Jan Floberg Owner Of DigPilot working. But we have done it here in Norway! My personal and very good friend Sturla owns a contractor company. Sturla just completed a 2 mill USD road job in one season with two excavators with DigPilot GNSS .”
It is a new way of working and will affect all parts of a company, as well as its partners, the consultants and the site owner. The electronic maps, called the «project files» are made in an open landxml format.
This entire road was worked with DigPilot 3D excavators from 14 to 40 Metric tons. About 40 Km long, project was completed in about 1 year.
Can be made anywhere in the world. They are placed in a dedicated folder on a server. The authorized parties, the contractor AND THE MACHINE driver is on internet and has access to the same server: the data is loaded directly onto the DigPilot PC in the excavator. DigPilot will offer such services, if they are not available locally.
As the excavator moves on the site, it places its bucket onto the finished surface, and presses «save coordinate» on the screen. DigPilot has a well organized folder hierarcy to organize documented work.
Thousands used and sold in Norway and Europe Maintenance free wireless sensors Broken sensor is easily exhanged by the operator The whole system is an «on and off» system and may be changed and shared between machines
In the e 3D 3D ve version on all software ware for thes ese e machines ines are includ uded, ed, no additi tional onal cost The unique GNSS rover has a built in RTK motor, a UHF radiomodem as well as an internet modem. It links the excavator to internet and electronic data map files with RTK accuracy.
DigPilot Machine Guidance dozers and wheeloaders
Yearly cost of SIM card, data-traffic. One Gb pr month, fixed price estimate $20.00 Yearly subscription of NTRIP service, if the contractor does not have his own reference station. Should be around $1000.00 USD. Yearly subscription to update package is approximately $750.00
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