Posts by Mary Darling

How AI is Transforming the Construction Industry: Trends, Benefits, and Challenges Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing  the construction industry, and the possibilities and mind boggling. Starting with the design process and ending with a built environment’s decommissioning, AI is playing increasingly vital roles in achieving collaboration and connectivity in construction through the full life…

Digital Twins Deliver Data-Driven Results Combining laser scanning, 3D modeling, and AI provides revolutionary efficiencies and innovations never before possible. Highly versatile digital twin solutions are a must for many applications and industries. The extreme versatility of laser scanning and 3D modeling, combined with AI to create “smart” digital twins makes this technology ideal for…

Digital Twins have been around for a little over two decades, but today’s digital twins can employ AI and machine learning, setting them apart from earlier virtual modeling capabilities. They are complex virtual representations built from multiple data sources such as processes, people, devices, and mechanical systems. Digital twins represent not just one process but an entire organization.

How to Choose the Best Aerial Survey Company for Your Project For anyone new to thermal imaging, it has been a game changer for so many industries and fields.  Thermal imaging, at its most basic, is the visual representation of infrared radiation–or heat–put off by something, be it organic or inorganic.  If an object or…

How Thermal Imaging Can Save You Money and Energy in Your Construction Projects Drone thermography plays so many roles in the construction industry. Combining UAV and infrared (IR) capabilities, the technology can be used to: inspect work monitor and maintain systems diagnose problems early assess and help improve energy efficiency verify proper installation of mechanical…

3D mapping and modeling, which are accomplished using point clouds of data collected by laser scanner, have come very far very fast. Anyone around in the infancy of laser scanning can recall how large, heavy, and slow the equipment was. Once the technology became more efficient, affordable and widely available, however, there seemed to be no limit to its uses.

LiDAR created 3D maps and models are made up of individual data points. A point cloud is a massive collection of virtual data points, with each one representing actual points in the real world. These millions of individual data points, taken together, create a usable dataset. Using software to model physical objects in digital space makes point clouds imminently useful.

If time is money–and many argue that it is–then 3D drone surveying delivers a resounding mic drop. Traditional surveying and drone surveying are not even in the same ballpark when it comes to the amount of time it takes to complete a survey. The slowness of traditional surveying methods can contribute to costs running into the thousands of dollars for a single small acreage topographical map.