June 11, 2001 6:30 a.m. EDT
 

Data Visualization Software Based on AVS/Express Helps Telco Engineers Monitor Electromagnetic Pollution

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(Waltham, MA -- June 11, 2001 6:30 a.m. EDT)

Advanced Visual Systems, Inc. today announced that Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) has adopted a custom software tool based on the company's AVS/Express™ development system for all of its Italian regional districts.

The software was developed by AVS's Italian Professional Services team in cooperation with Telecom Italia LAB (TILAB), the research center of Telecom Italia Group. Called GUARDIAN, the software helps telecom engineers analyze the intensity of electromagnetic fields radiated by Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) to determine compliance with Italy's established limits on electromagnetic pollution. GUARDIAN (Graphical User Application for the RaDiation Intensity in Antenna Neighborhoods) has a graphical user interface designed using AVS/Express. With this tool, engineers can easily view existing data and also test future scenarios for compliance.

TIM, one of Europe's largest mobile-phone service companies, provides BTS position data and electrical parameters as well as data on building positions and dimensions in the neighborhoods surrounding the BTS. GUARDIAN extends this data by allowing the user to create 3D representations of possible new urban areas and alter characteristics such as antenna position and the number of channels in the BTS system. The user can easily import standard image formats such as TIF and JPG to use as the basis for constructing a new area within the simulation.

"AVS/Express turned our state-of-the-art computational kernel into a fully featured application. Guardian 2.2 has become the best instrument to analyze the radiobase station conformity to the limits fixed by Italian law," said Paolo Gianola, Technical Leader of TILAB's Antenna Propagation Department.

GUARDIAN supplies engineers with a virtual representation of the urban environment comprising terrain and building-block objects for buildings, and shows electromagnetic field values with advanced visualization techniques such as contours, isolines, isosurfaces, and many more. Sophisticated reporting capabilities allow engineers to produce required certification documentation.

AVS/Express is a comprehensive software development platform for creating advanced visualization applications for both research and business, and is one of the world's most widely used data visualization development tools.

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About Telecom Italia Lab
Telecom Italia Lab is a Telecom Italia Group company that combines the Group's "Venture Capital and Innovation" Business Unit, the TILAB research laboratories in Turin, the Future Center in Venice, the Consumer Lab in Rome, and the Technology Observatory in San Francisco. The company mission is to promote and manage innovation and to identify and develop the significant business opportunities provided by the market. Telecom Italia Lab's strongest assets are its rich and consolidated background in R&D, its ability to promote Corporate Venture Capital activities by investing in emerging technology and identifying the internal research areas which are ripe for the development of new ideas, and finally its development of initiatives and projects for fostering and supporting ICT expertise.

For more information, please see www.telecomitalialab.com/.