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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
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Machine guidance or Machine control in the construction business is the fastest growing automation business in the world.
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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
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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.
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SLIDE 8 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
- f surfaces: right up to adding grass seed.
The complete preparations of heavy and
smaller stones on roads and building sites.
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SLIDE 10 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
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SLIDE 12 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
- perator down trying to avoid them.
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Rodman inside the radius of the machine working
SLIDE 14 The 2D system with 1 inch accuracy guides the machine
- perator 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.
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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.
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Without DigPilot
DigPilot Installed
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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
SLIDE 21 ” I do not say it is completely without problem to turn a complete industry
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.”
Quote From Jan Floberg Owner Of DigPilot
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Europe
Maintenance free wireless sensors Broken sensor is easily exhanged by the
The whole system is an «on and off» system
and may be changed and shared between machines
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e 3D 3D ve version
ware for thes ese e machines ines are includ uded, ed, no additi tional
The unique GNSS rover has a built in RTK motor, a UHF radiomodem as well as an internet
excavator to internet and electronic data map files with RTK accuracy.
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DigPilot Machine Guidance dozers and wheeloaders
SLIDE 31 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
