INTUS Smartcities’ Infra-Eng, subsurface utility engineering, and permit-ready deliverables are directly tied into fiber to the home (FTTH) processes and technologies. Permits must be obtained before any FTTH process can begin, and the backed-up permitting system currently in use does not discriminate between large companies or small. Companies such as Google and AT&T are facing nationwide issues and wasted costs due to permitting and have had to slow or halt FTTH projects, but this is where INTUS Smartcities has a clear solution and advantage. As discussed in the previous section, INTUS Smartcities has the capability to dramatically reduce the time it takes to obtain permits, and therefore, keep a project ongoing without significant interruptions.
INTUS Smartcities not only provides FTTH drilling, splicing, and installation, but has also employed a system that creates work orders to monitor each step in the process. This system (called FiberLink) records the full asset management process of fiber to the home. Again, all the ‘as-built’ data is integrated into GIS, and can be used for urban asset management. FiberLink can be used additionally as network illumination and fast-tracking of damaged connections.