Boels brings centimetre accuracy to its international survey equipment rental fleet

The partner

Boels Survey & Laser rents and maintains Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) rovers, total stations and machine-control systems for construction, infrastructure, civil engineering and geospatial customers.

Their field teams depend on Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) corrections to work at centimetre accuracy. Because Boels stays brand-independent, the correction service behind the fleet has to be just as flexible.

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A patchwork of correction services

Before working with us, Boels customers ran different correction services by region and by project.

Cross-border work made that costly: a single job could need separate subscriptions and fresh configuration on either side of a border, and reliability varied from one provider to the next.

Boels wanted the opposite, one flexible European network that worked across the receivers in its fleet and any application, instead of a patchwork rebuilt for every job.

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Wide coverage on open standards

The deciding factor was one service that removes the fragmentation rather than adding to it. Our network covers more than 35 countries from over 7,500 reference stations, so a customer keeps the same corrections at home or across a border.

Because we interpolate Network RTK (NRTK) corrections across that network rather than leaning on a single base, precision stays stable across a work area instead of degrading with distance.

The corrections are hardware-independent, sent over standard Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (NTRIP) and Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) formats, so they work with any receiver in the Boels fleet that speaks NTRIP and RTCM 3.2 MSM, and accounts stay easy to activate and manage.

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The solution in practice

A typical job starts with a surveyor connecting a GNSS rover to our network over NTRIP. Once an RTK fix is established, measurement and stake-out run at centimetre-level accuracy, on the receiver the customer prefers, across surveying, construction, infrastructure and machine-control work.

Behind the field work, Boels runs everything from the XYZ Platform: users, subscriptions and licences, account activation, and remote support for people on site. Compared with its old tools, the portal gives a far clearer view of who is using what, so the team supports customers faster.

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The results

• One network replaces the region-by-region services, so cross-border jobs no longer need new subscriptions or reconfiguration.
• New GNSS systems go out faster, with less time spent configuring corrections and less dependency on local networks.
• Field work is more continuous and reliable, so customers focus on the job rather than on network management.
• The XYZ Platform shows active users, subscriptions and licences at a glance, and remote support reaches the field without a site visit.

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Specialists on hand for the hard cases

Like any service, ours raises the occasional question about configuration or a customer-specific setup.

What Boels values is how those are handled: it rates our technical support as knowledgeable, approachable and solution-oriented, with direct access to experienced specialists during implementations and complex projects.

That access is what lets Boels offer a higher level of service to its own customers.

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If you want a reliable RTK correction network with broad international coverage, strong compatibility across GNSS brands and an easy management platform, Premium Positioning is worth it.

Wim van Kan, Product Manager, Boels Survey & Laser