GPS-enabled utility locator
McLaughlin Group has introduced the industry’s first GPS-enabled utility locator that allows for one-touch operation. McLaughlin developed software applications that allow its Verifier G2 utility locator to share real-time data with an integrated Magellan GPS unit installed on the Verifier G2 utility locator. A software application is loaded into the locating receiver. This program allows the receiver, through a serial port, to export real-time depth, current measurement index (CMI), frequency and locator mode (peak or null) to the integrated GPS unit. A second software program allows the Windows-based GPS units to receive the locator data. When the GPS unit receives that data, it cues the Magellan unit to record the latitude and longitude coordinates for the specific underground facility. www.mightymole.com
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