From Surveying to Monitoring: Uncovering New Business Opportunities

In an increasingly dynamic industry, modern surveyors are constantly seeking new opportunities to diversify their skillset and expand their portfolio. One such opportunity is adding monitoring services. This step reveals new business prospects while leveraging existing surveying equipment and skills. Drawing from an interview with Steve Thurgood, a monitoring expert for Leica Geosystems, we recap how surveyors can use and build on existing resources to enter the world of monitoring.

Leveraging existing skills and tools in surveying

While it may seem like an intimidating specialty, monitoring is simply repeated measuring. Surveyors who measure or stake out points already incorporate aspects of monitoring in their work routine - possessing most of the skill set and tools required to integrate monitoring into their services. A pre-existing customer base is also a huge benefit.

If it seems too easy to be true, consider a construction surveyor who is already performing routine measurements for a construction company during a project. The process of evaluating stability or displacement of an adjacent wall during an excavation task is, in fact, a case of practical monitoring.

What is monitoring? Essentially, it's just a process of measuring more than once.

Ready to expand your surveying career with monitoring skills? Listen to the full conversation with Steve Thurgood, a monitoring expert at Leica Geosystems, to gain insider tips and vital knowledge. Don't miss out on this chance to uncover fresh business opportunities and enhance your professional growth.

Efficient monitoring workflows

However, in order for surveyors to use their surveying expertise effectively and expand their customer base, they need an efficient workflow. This is where Leica Geosystems Monitoring Solutions can help enable the transition, offering applications that streamline the process, minimise errors, and make data collection more accurate and precise.

Leica Geosystems provides high accuracy instruments and advanced software and applications that deliver data helping surveyors manage different types and sizes of monitoring projects. With an expansive portfolio, ranging from total stations, levels, GNSS to Wireless Sensors (WiSen Sensors), Leica Geosystems provides measurements methods in different combinations to meet any project requirement. Paired with software for processing, analysis, reporting, and even sending notifications, users can access and make actionable the most relevant data.

Significance of monitoring for surveyors

Venturing into monitoring has several advantages for surveyors. Firstly, it serves as an additional revenue stream, making the most of their skills and optimizing the use of their instruments. Moreover, by offering versatile services, surveyors increase their value and relevance to clientele.

While monitoring is sometimes envisioned as a “dark art” - an enigmatic specialisation out of reach without heavy investments in new skills and technology - the venture into monitoring is actually a practical, profitable and achievable extension of surveying. The transition allows for the increased use of resources and boosts the efficiency of processes.

By simplifying complex monitoring tasks into more manageable components, Leica Geosystems plays a pivotal role in promoting this transition, encouraging surveyors to venture into this expansive and rewarding field.