FROM THE INDUSTRY
Taking photos of the same thing every few months will presumably get stored in a data centre, which is not exactly sustainable. Are you doing that at scale? I think many people don’t realise that this is already happening, just very inefficiently. Vast quantities of photos are stored in what you can think of as a digital filing cabinet and rarely looked at again. Big telcos do this today. They’ll manually review maybe 5 or 10% of the images, make a judgement, and if it looks bad, send another crew. The rest just sits there gathering digital dust. With Deepomatic, we’re making sure every photo is checked. That means infrastructure is only touched when it actually needs fixing, not because someone took a guess based on a tiny sample.
That sounds like a lot of wasted effort and energy. It is, but that’s what we’re fixing. Deepomatic’s technology helps avoid unnecessary repair visits and means customers get the service they are paying for faster. There’s a broader impact too. Fibre networks are around 60% more energy efficient than copper for the same service. Yes, you’ve got to dig to install fibre, but the more we can help operators understand what’s already in the ground, the less they waste — whether that’s truck rolls, person-hours or lengths of fibre. By making digital twins more accurate, we’re enabling easier maintenance, faster fault finding and fewer repeated site visits.
make it mean something. Deepomatic’s a good example: it doesn’t just snap a photo and file it away, its computer vision models analyse the image and gives you a decision you can act on. Agentification isn’t a revolution in computer science, but it is a revolution in what we can now achieve by connecting disparate AI. It’s heading toward a peak at the moment: everybody’s talking about it, and it clearly has legs. Some things will go wrong, people will get disillusioned for a while. But with the right guardrails, agentification will be genuinely transformative. Technology revolutions rarely move in a straight line. Correct. But the will is there, and the right foundations are in place. I am very optimistic, and I think Deepomatic’s core business combined with IQGeo’s overall infrastructure puts us in a strong position to effect meaningful, ultimately sustainable change.
Tell me more about agentification.
People often describe agentification as wiring AI models together to get stuff done, and that’s part of it. But it’s one thing to get AI to do a job for you and another to
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