Inspect and create Digital Twins of Amplitel (Telstra) mobile tower portfolio.

With a team of highly qualified and experienced remote drone pilots and technicians, Sensorem has successfully visited over 5,000 sites, capturing high-quality, unique data on critical infrastructure across a vast and diverse landscape. This comprehensive programme has been instrumental in providing detailed, actionable insights, ensuring the ongoing safety and performance of essential assets in some of the most remote and challenging environments in Australia.

Digitising Critical Infrastructure

To support Amplitel’s mission of digital transformation, Sensorem delivers a cutting-edge solution for visualising mobile phone towers and poles. Leveraging the latest enterprise drone technology, Sensorem captures high-quality data and transforms it into detailed digital twins of the infrastructure. This data is then seamlessly integrated into Sensorem’s proprietary cloud-based asset management and visualisation software, DRONOS Telco.

DRONOS Telco not only provides Amplitel with an unparalleled visualisation of their existing equipment and assets but also offered critical insights into available space for leasing to Amplitel’s customers. This comprehensive platform enables real-time, accurate assessments of tower capacity and equipment locations, streamlining decision-making and optimising the utilisation of Amplitel’s infrastructure. This innovative approach enhanced operational efficiency while supporting Amplitel’s broader digital transformation goals.

Project Success

In 2021, Sensorem’s partnership with Amplitel expanded to include Tier 1 inspections, marking a new level of service excellence. These inspections focused on capturing ultra-high-resolution images of both the towers and surrounding areas, addressing crucial aspects like ground maintenance, earthing, and corrosion repairs.

As part of the project, Sensorem’s in-house team of telecommunications data analysts performed comprehensive desktop analyses, ensuring that every detail of the infrastructure was meticulously reviewed and actioned.

The success of the project was further enhanced by the continuous development of Sensorem’s **DRONOS Telco** software. This cloud-based asset management and visualisation platform now features cutting-edge AI-powered capabilities, enabling automated identification of tower equipment and detection of defects, making asset monitoring more efficient than ever.

Over the past few years, Sensorem’s team has covered hundreds of thousands of kilometres across Australia, completing tens of thousands of drone flights. With a strong emphasis on training, safety management, and quality control, combined with our unique deliverables, Sensorem has cemented its position as a trusted, premier drone inspection provider for critical telecommunications infrastructure.