 Hi, my name is Denise from InterGio TV and I'd like to welcome you to this tech talk with Bernhard Richter, his vice president, Geometics at Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon. Good morning, Bernhard. Hello. Morning. Yeah, last time we met in person, so was in 2016 right before InterGio in Hamburg. You came here into our InterGio TV studio and then you told me something about, I think it was that time GS16 in that solutions and services video talk and right now I discovered something really exciting at LinkedIn, so just a few weeks I discovered an exciting post on your profile. It was called, finally it is out of the box, capture everything before the scene disappears. And this is right now the new innovation, the tech innovation from Leica and this is what we are talking about today. So tell me what's new from Hexagon, which you will also show at InterGio Digital this year. So you're very well prepared, I see, so that's surprising. And actually what's new I would say is one of the questions I hear most often when I usually stand at the InterGio and I kind of, you know, you get tired hearing what's new from Leica and everybody wants to hear about the one big thing, but I would like to remind the audience that if you buy a Leica product, if you buy a Leica premium product and if you have a customer care package, actually it's a continuous journey and with our software enhancements we continuously improve our products. So even so your product might be two years old, but if it runs latest firmware, you typically benefit from all the new things we constantly develop also an existing platform. But as you said before, the big new thing for sure is the GS18i, the GS18i with visual positioning as we call it. It's the first time that a camera and IMU and the GNSS is deeply integrated and you can then measure points at centimeter level like you see from images. So you capture a scene and you can measure these points then in the images or you can even go further and generate a point. Wow, this is really interesting and I am also interested in asking for visitors of InterGio like surveyors and so on. So which kind of problems does this GS18i solve? So just tell us or tell us the story behind that for which problems it is. So we in product management we have the thinking that if you're not solving through customer problems, product itself will not be a success. So we actually, everything we do, we start with the problem and thinking of the GS18i, what are the specific problems we want to solve here? I see it in a way that GPS and GNSS signals are extremely big signals. We forget this quite often. So if you are away from a cell tower, let's say at one kilometer, the GNSS signal is 40 million times weaker than the cell tower signal. So that also means it's highly vulnerable and it's very easy to block. So the epic goal of GNSS is that you can use that technology also in obstructed area that you can use it when the signal is blocked, when you can't actually track the GNSS signals. So that problem to utilize GNSS in more areas than before is the fundamental problem we wanted to solve with the GS18i. So we would like to measure in areas that are obstructed and then there is other elements as well we can solve with the GS18i. Sometimes some areas are inaccessible. So there might be dangerous areas or you can't actually climb down a trench or it's across a busy road. So you also want to measure there, but it's quite dangerous to access that area. So that's another problem we are trying to solve is this new technology. And sometimes it's not so obvious, but sometimes the client doesn't really know what his final delivery should be. So I mean here that the level of detail is not clearly known when the client asks the surveyor to do the measurements for him. So with that technology, you actually don't need to know every point you have to pick up in the field. You can actually film or take an image group of the scenery and can decide later on in the office what points you would like to measure or think of an open trench with a pipe in there. You might not know exactly which points or which valve you would like to measure. The trench is then covered up later on, but with that technology you have it all captured and the level of detail is actually all there and you can go like with the virtual survey and do the survey in the office later on. Wow. Well, Bernhard, these are many technology details you just explained and this sounds so interesting. So is there a chance for any people watching this video right now to get a chance to see a demonstration somewhere? Who can they ask for that? So unfortunately, there are still countries where we can't see our customers directly in many countries. This is possible and I also know this technology is new. It's also difficult for us somehow to because we're the only one at the moment to make sure the customer believes that this technology is working. So you have to see it, you have to touch it and I was really looking forward to this year's intergeal because we had a lot of ideas in mind how we can demonstrate this live to the customer outdoor, have some fun competition, block this on social media. So unfortunately, this is all not possible. So there will be a hexagon room as part of Intergeal and a virtual room and there we will have, for me, I hope it's one of the highlights of the hexagon room. There will be actually live demos here from Hairbrook and it will be an interactive demo so people can, during the demo, ask questions or they say, no, I would like to measure this point now. I would like to measure this distance, show me how precise it is because people really have to see it live in order to believe that this technology works and we also will talk about the limitations of this technology. Every technology has limitations and we will ultimately also talk about this limitation. So there will be lots of events as part of this hexagon room about the GS89. Yeah, it's a pity that we cannot meet in person. Actually, we cannot meet in Berlin for this year's intergeal. We have to meet in digital spaces because of travel restrictions and yeah, it's safety and health first this year. But we're looking forward to a bigger and stronger intergeal in 2021. But this year, as you just mentioned, those demonstrations will be in kind of digital virtual booths where people can meet you, meet your team and especially also ask for the GS18i and yeah, what do you expect of this kind? I mean, we are for the first time digital with this intergeal. Usually, we met about 20.000 people over three days and it was a huge gathering. So what do you expect? What are your expectations for this year? But that's really a tricky question because it's so different and in fact, for us, it's more preparation work in order to prepare the digital content and it's good because it can be even spread further than it would be within the intergeal exhibition actually. So there's no border with regards to the country's time zones, traveling, etc. So that's a positive aspect of it and I'm sure some of this digital content we produce because it's way more content than we did so far for the intergeal that the parts of this difference to normal year will remain. So I guess the intergeal will remain more digital and we will also learn a lot of what works and what doesn't work. It won't be so easy to generate the traffic on these channels. It has to be exciting. It must not be boring because I know from my kids they can only concentrate for one minute 30 on a YouTube video so and we're not doing TikTok stuff here so it will be tough and it will also take time. I think that intergeal finds out what works and what doesn't and the same holds true for us. It won't be so easy. But it's a chance and some I'm sure that the positive things of what we'll learn just things like home office. It's now normal. We work from home. These some things will stay and the good things will certainly stay. Yeah we keep our fingers crossed that everything works well. I mean we know that everything changed. We're more digital. We're more used to video chat and things like that but we're also looking forward to see us in person within the next year. So Bernhard I think you just mentioned we are over 130. We are a lot about over 130 minutes. So let's meet at intergeal digital from the 13th to the 15th of October with Hexagon. You can meet also Bernhard Richter and learn more from the GS18i and Bernhard it was everything from me this morning. You have anything else you want to tell us? No thanks a lot. I just missed the coffee now after that interview but yeah have that together. Yeah it's a pity. I will send it over to Switzerland and you sent me some chocolate back. That's okay. Toblerone. Oh I'm looking forward to it. So when we see us next time coffee for you chocolate for me and then we will quit. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. Bye.