Category: Energy | Geoscience Ireland

Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Use | CDM Smith

June 16, 2020/in Capacity Building, Civil Infrastructure, Energy, Environment, Mineral Resources, Water Resources /by GSI Editor 1

Project Title

Augmented Reality Smart Glasses Use | CDM Smith

Date

2019 – ongoing

Location

National and International

Client

Multiple

Business Sectors

Civil Infrastructure/ Water Resources/ Environment/ Mineral Resources/Energy/ Capacity Building

Services (Technical Disciplines)

CDM Smith engaged UtilityAR to provide wearable technology and a software platform in the form of smart glasses. The smart glasses allow users to access information that they need to complete their work and to link them with specialist colleagues and advice when needed.

Augmented Reality smart glasses can project information onto the inside of the lens of the glass to allow the wearer to see it while still seeing the real world. The integrated forward facing camera allows for video and image capture.

Project Objectives/Outcomes

CDM Smith explores ways to engage field staff with senior specialists. With a global workforce it can be challenging from a time and expense perspective for specialists in different locations across the globe to travel to site and advise less experienced staff. The use of the forward facing camera on the smart glasses allows a staff member on site to communicate with a specialist anywhere in the world. The specialist sees what they see and can provide advice/instruction and discussion on best practice/next course of action. The specialist can even provide on-screen mark ups to assist with clear communication.

Our Role

CDM Smith now routinely use the smart glasses on the majority of its sites to provide a more efficient service to its clients, to contribute to its quality management systems and to assist with staff engagement across the company.

The glasses are particularly useful in times or areas of restricted travel. In addition their use can be quantitatively assessed in terms of their carbon offset where travel to site from different parts of the world is no longer necessary (in some use cases).

Geoscience Ireland Contact

Jon Hunt (jon.hunt@cdmsmith.com)

Kipeto Windfarm– 60 Turbines – 100MW | Intersocial Consulting

May 26, 2020/in Energy /by GSI Editor 1

Project Title

Kipeto Windfarm – 60 Turbines – 100MW | Intersocial Consulting

Date

2015-2019

Location

Kajiado plains of the Rift Valley region of Kenya

Client

Kipeto Energy PLC and the IFC

Business Sectors

Energy

Services (Technical Disciplines)

Negotiating community agreements on basis of consent.

Establishing compensation rates for land and designing resettlement houses and social programmes.

Identifying and addressing social impacts.

Building community capacity through engaging third-party experts to advise the community on agreements.

Project Objectives/Outcomes

The objective of the work was to support Kipeto to negotiate consent from the Maasai community for the project. Without the consent of the affected people the project would not have proceeded as this is the international requirement for indigenous people.

Our Role

We were the lead social and resettlement consultancy training Kipeto’s community relations team for three years and developing a Resettlement Action Plan and community agreements. The landowners negotiated a 1.4% share and the community a 5% share of the gross annual income from the project.