Intelligent positioning solutions provider recognised at the 2022 TAFE Queensland – SkillsTech Apprentice Awards. Aptella was a finalist and runner-up in this year’s TAFE Queensland – SkillsTech Apprentice Awards for the Large Employer of the Year award. The company was nominated for its unique apprenticeship program, co-created with TAFE Queensland to build the right skills and knowledgebase for Aptella Field Technicians. “Our Field Technicians require a mix of skills and training to be able to support our customers with high precision machine control technology on heavy earthmoving equipment,” said Bernadette Taoro Ashin, Strategic Head of People & Culture at Aptella. “We are delighted to have received recognition from TAFE Queensland at the awards night this year – it
Ascon Survey and Drafting specialises in engineering surveys: civil, roads, pipelines, council works. Ascon Survey and Drafting specialises in engineering surveys: civil, roads, pipelines, council works. Director, Mathew Mattaboni found that when his team was working on site, his instruments were being interfered with by other units working in the same area. “More and more we’re relying on GNSS and I was finding that whenever we rocked up to a job site a lot of the time, with the older UHF technology, it was getting interfered with by other units within the area so I needed something that was reliable that I could fall back on to keep projects rolling forward,” said Mr Mattaboni. “There wasn’t really a
JG Civil delivers infrastructure works and specialises in larger sub-divisions operating in Rodney, North Shore and Auckland Central and West, in New Zealand. Neville Robertson, Engineer/Surveyor at JG Civil, is responsible for the set out of the works, preparation of as-built detail and progress claims, previously he would outsource the set out and would have to wait for the external supplier to complete this and provide information. On the advice of his hardware supplier, Mr Robertson engaged with Aptella to implement MAGNET Office software into his workflow.  “We used to outsource this work but decided to do it internally. We now use MAGNET office to set out the roading strings and do the as-built files for the
New larger premises for a growing team, supporting Indonesia’s construction and mining sector with latest positioning and automation technology. Aptella announces the opening of a new office, complete with training and experience centre, in Tangerang Selatan City, in the Banten Province of Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. With a growing need for accurate positioning and construction technology to improve productivity and safety for Indonesia’s construction and mining sectors, Aptella supports customers to successfully deploy the latest solutions, with training, technical support, and advice. Aptella has more than 30 years’ industry experience with laser levels, grade control for heavy earthmoving equipment, positioning systems and the latest mapping tools. Founded in Australian in 2008, the business now employs more than 350 people
SmartSurveyor enables accurate aerial mapping, handheld photogrammetry and survey rover tasks and is compatible with DJI Mavic 2 and 3 series, or Phantom 4 Pro, drones. Aptella announces the launch of SmartSurveyor, a compact device that can be used for survey-grade aerial mapping projects in combination with the DJI Mavic 2 or 3 series, as well as the Phantom 4 drone. Unclip the SmartSurveyor from the aircraft and use it as a handheld photogrammetry tool with your smartphone camera, or a survey rover to measure ground control points. Unlike other drone mapping systems that rely on post-processed or real-time kinematic (PPK or RTK) technology, SmartSurveyor works with two or more ground control points (GCPs) and uses an iterative
Intelligent positioning and autonomy solutions provider achieves top tier partnership status with Rajant to support mining customers with network technology requirements. Brisbane, 20th October 2022 – Aptella announces an upgrade to Premium Partner status with industrial mobile network communication provider, Rajant. The agreement will see Aptella continue to grow the reach of Rajant Kinetic Mesh® solutions across Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia for mining and other industrial sectors. “The Aptella team has been highly engaged with Rajant solutions since joining the partner program in 2019, winning Fastest Growing New Partner at our Australian summit in 2021,” said Troy McKay, Rajant’s APAC Sales Director. “We’re delighted to announce their achievement of top tier distributor status and look forward
Intelligent positioning solutions provider adds further regional support to customers in Queensland with the addition of sales and field service capabilities in Rockhampton. Rockhampton, 2 November 2022 – Aptella announces the opening of a new base in Rockhampton, Queensland, offering customers in the building construction, civil, mining and survey sectors access to local sales and service support. Following the company’s opening of a Townsville branch in May of this year, Queensland Region Manager Harry Katsanevas expressed Aptella’ commitment to supporting customers throughout the state.  “Our customers are based and/or win work throughout the state of Queensland, so we are committed to being there to support them whenever and wherever they need us to be,” he said. “There’s a
Asset Survey Solutions was looking for a solution to assist with a project that consisted of 3km of linear corridor made up of residential road and service pipeline, and the requirement to produce a full as-is condition survey from boundary to boundary that would be used as the reference state in a dilapidation survey. “Aptella was able to supply the NavVis VLX mobile scanning solution to complete the 1.5km residential section of the project,” said Patrick Hughes, Customer Success Manager – Scanning, Aptella. “The project represented an opportunity to use the new technology in the NavVis VLX, which was able to leverage a quicker capture time and still produce the required accuracies.” Scan data would not only provide
