Construction monitoring is an accurate and positive way of checking the quality, accuracy and progress of a construction project. Construction sites are a massive jigsaw of people and parts that must be pieced together at the right time. With larger projects, delays become more expensive. But artificial intelligence (AI) may help you developing an image recognition system, which monitors every detail of an ongoing construction project.
Founder and CEO of British- Israeli startup Buildots Roy Danon says that artificial intelligence flags up delays or errors automatically. Along with Buildots, the two biggest building firms in Europe, including UK construction giant Wates is using this system in large residential builds. Construction is significantly a kind of manufacturing. If high-tech factories adopt AI to manage their processes, it the high time for construction sites to start using it.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has started to change various aspects of construction, ranging from design to self-driving diggers. Some companies even offer a kind of overall AI site inspector, which matches images taken on-site against a digital plan of the building.
When managers visit the site once or twice a week, the camera on their head captures video footages of the entire project and then uploads it to image recognition software. It compares the status of many thousands of objects such as electrical sockets, and bathroom fittings on-site with a digital replica of the building.
Artificial intelligence also uses the video feed to find out where the camera in the building within a few centimetres so that it can spot the exact location of the objects in each frame. Mr. Danon claims that the system can track the status of approximately 150,000 items several times a week. AI can identify which of three or four states it is in for each object, from not yet begun to fully deploy.
Source: World Construction Today
