Location data platform Mapbox is partnering with data cloud company Snowflake and Maxar Intelligence to deliver a digital twin solution for the telecommunications industry.
The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress, taking place in Barcelona, 26-29 February.
The collaboration uses Snowflake’s geospatial capabilities and Maxar’s high-resolution 3D terrain and satellite imagery, combined with Mapbox’s rendering capabilities to provide telecom organisations with a visual representation of their cellular coverage at what claims to be an unprecedented level of precision.
Insights into cellular coverage
With the integrated offering, telecom organisations can obtain hyper-precise insights into cellular coverage, enabling them to make informed decisions related to coverage, outages, maintenance, and new infrastructure.
“Collaborating with Snowflake and Maxar to introduce a digital twin solution provides an opportunity for leaders in business, geospatial, and location intelligence to redefine how telecom organisations visualise and analyse their networks,” said Garrett Miller, global vice president of customer engagement at Mapbox.
“The AI-enhanced digital twin is aimed at aiding various telecom use cases such as network planning, outage mapping, and optimising network operations”
“By harnessing the power of Mapbox’s platform, telecom companies can gain actionable insights into network performance metrics, identify areas for infrastructure improvement, and make informed decisions to meet the evolving demands of their customers.”
The digital twin solution consists of a base layer of ultra-high precision coverage raster datasets used for downstream business intelligence visualisation and analysis. Mapbox reports it is positioned to deliver this capability with its raster data pipeline capabilities and rendering engine that can performantly handle enormous datasets at scale.
“The AI-enhanced digital twin is aimed at aiding various telecom use cases such as network planning, outage mapping, and optimising network operations,” said Fawad Qureshi, industry field chief technology officer at Snowflake.
“Mapbox is a key partner within the Snowflake Telecom Data Cloud, and together, we are empowering telecom organisations with a robust toolset, to improve processes and foster innovation through data-driven decision-making.”
Maxar’s Precision3D Telco Suite provides the telecom industry with high-resolution details, such as 3D buildings, foliage and elevations of the Earth’s surface, on a regional, national and global scale.
“Combining this dataset with Mapbox’s platform and Snowflake’s data layers will revolutionise decision-making processes,” said Paul Granito, general manager, enterprise at Maxar.
