Yotta provides a clear view Conwy’s assets

10 June 2008, 12:37pm

Welsh Council Conwy has chosen Yotta DCL's cutting edge automatic inventory surveying service to help update its asset inventory register. Yotta DCL will survey Conwy’s entire 1700km network of county roads using its innovative YAV 1 digital asset capture survey vehicle. Armed with survey data for carriageway, footway, gullies, signs, channel blocks and street name plates, Conwy will be able to accurately valuate its assets and predict maintenance costs.

“The Welsh Assembly Government requires that all local authorities produce highway asset management plans and we are pleased to report that we are pushing forward with these in Conwy. Yotta DCL provides us with an inventory survey service that is unique in its accuracy, speed and cost effectiveness. The data we get from the inventory survey will help us gain a clear and accurate picture of our assets and this will ensure that we have a fully updated asset management system,” says Alison Tomlinson, Asset Management Officer, Highways Department, Conwy County Borough Council.

For the survey, Yotta DCL uses its specially designed and developed YAV 1 vehicle equipped with six high-definition cameras that give a full street-level view of the highway. The cameras take an image every 2 metres as the vehicle drives along, with the precise position (

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