AI controls fiber optic expansion

• Quality control is required for fiber-to-the-home construction work across hundreds of sites every day
• Thousands of 3D scans must be analyzed every hour (about 10,000 per day)
• Relying on random quality checks risks missing defects
• Lack of full monitoring leads to expensive, time-consuming rework
   

• Introduction of a computer vision solution for automatic quality control
• Pre-qualification of test scans from unlabeled data using GenAI
• Training of a specialized computer vision model based on DBIZ-YOLO
• By integrating domain-specific expert knowledge, the solution achieves an F1 score of up to 90 percent for individual building objects
• Training on AWS (fine-tuning), operation in an internal cluster on CPUs (including inference)
• Development time: four months
   

• Comprehensive monitoring of construction sites
• Traffic light system for real-time detection of errors and feedback to construction companies
• Cost-effective operation
• Construction supervisors achieve high control efficiency
• Development acceleration through the hybrid use of GenAI and computer vision
   

Deutsche Telekom Technik (DT Technik) is responsible for the planning, construction, and operation of critical technical infrastructure facilities and systems, and technology rollout within Germany for Telekom Deutschland GmbH.