HEAVY.AI, an innovator in advanced analytics, announced it is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to include global management consulting firm Bain & Company and Maxar, a provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence.
This collaboration will provide communication service providers (CSPs) with faster and more accurate tools for determining antenna placements, assuring optimal signal coverage and enabling greater efficiencies in network deployments.
This expands on HEAVY.AI’s existing endeavor with NVIDIA, which includes HEAVY.AI’s HeavyRF solution built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform announced last fall. The addition of Bain and Maxar will further streamline telco deployments by creating more accurate and detailed digital twins faster.
Leveraging Maxar’s high-resolution Precision3D geodata built from its industry-leading satellite imagery, NVIDIA Omniverse and Bain’s extensive domain knowledge and data-driven insights, CSP planners now have access to network digital twins that provide next-level insights to drive business decisions. HeavyRF enables customers to model signal propagation on top of Maxar’s high-resolution 50 centimeter clutter height data interactively at a regional, national or global scale, delivering unprecedented possibilities for telecommunications planning across the globe. This means planners can simulate future cell sites, enabling them to choose the best location based on coverage achieved. Digital twin simulations help telcos save time and money by optimizing the planning process and improving the quality of decision-making, ultimately maximizing their return on invested capital.
By improving the resolution, accuracy and speed of the data collection and analysis process, HeavyRF revolutionizes telcos’ access to reliable historic and real-time network performance data and insights. When Maxar’s Precision3D geodata is combined with Bain’s demographic and behavioral data expertise, and supercharged by HEAVY.AI and NVIDIA’s compute power, telcos can improve and accelerate business decision-making without delays resulting from batch data deliveries and increased compute requirements for these simulation applications.
Without reliable data during the planning phase, it can be difficult for telcos to guarantee network investments will deliver at scale throughout their lifetime. Having access to network digital twins provides accurate sources of data during this critical phase, ensures that consumers have stable service for years to come, and mitigates additional costly capital expenditure reinvestments in that area.
Jon Kondo, CEO of HEAVY.AI
By connecting the diverse data streams from Maxar, Bain’s integrated expertise and coupling them with the compute power from HEAVY.AI and NVIDIA, this collaboration enables telcos to make nationwide business decisions through a single screen with up-to-the-minute insights. This ensures telcos are making the best business decisions that serve not only their regional needs but national strategy as well.
Chris Penrose, Global Head of Business Development for Telco at NVIDIA
Telcos need a new, more accurate way to tackle their tower and microcell planning needs. Our groundbreaking collaboration with HEAVY.AI, Bain and Maxar will enable planners to tackle challenging settings, like multi-tiered urban structures and heavily vegetated locations, as well as use information from other datasets to create the best possible network design.
