Reshaping Industry: Offsite Planning And Management
Drones offer precision data collection at a frequency and fidelity previously impossible to attain. As drone hardware and software continuously improve, and as the cost of use declines, the economics of scaled enterprise use is increasingly feasible.
This new class of data is industry agnostic, and already creating immediate and long-term value in many industries eager for transformation. We’ve classified four primary areas, grounded in non-hypothetical applications, where 4D drone data offers immediate benefits to Industry.
Offsite Planning And Management
With the introduction of on demand visual data, the single most significant area of Industry set to change is offsite operations. Encompassing roles across project management, accounting, finance, marketing, HR and legal — 4D drone data provides a new level of transparency set to disrupt how back offices calculate business operations and finances.
For offsite planning and management, remote visibility manifests itself in a number of ways:
Visual Asset Management
Across nearly every industry, visual data will become an increasingly crucial part of an asset manager’s toolkit. High fidelity, high frequency visual data will give personnel the ability to pre-plan site logistics, assess current inventories, as well as track asset movement over time — anytime, anywhere.
- Record equipment and material inventories over time with visual data and machine learning.
- Identify, track, and locate assets across the supply chain for enhanced planning and logistics.
- Detect and reduce asset theft, loss, and waste with reporting across project sites.
- Streamline material and personnel delivery and backlog logistics with real-time site data.
Fact: Total construction equipment theft now stands at around $1 billion annually. -National Insurance Crime Bureau
Monitoring & Scheduling
As project sites are digitized, enterprises will suddenly have that ability to extend crucial information across departments and stakeholders. This added transparency will help personnel more accurately manage projects and make more educated scheduling decisions.
- Remotely monitor project progress and performance across teams and locations.
- Inspect projects offsite with high-resolution, high frequency 4D imagery and sharable tags.
- Create, assign, and prioritize tasks in real-time across the entire supply chain.
- View and receive workforce updates on mobile devices for improved intercommunication.
- Provide automated dashboards created from field data, showing up-to-date task completion and delivery logistics.
- Leverage project transparency to produce highly efficient work plans and schedules.
Facts: Large projects typically take 20% longer to finish than scheduled and are up to 80% over budget. -McKinsey Global Institute
77% of megaprojects around the globe are 40% or more behind schedule. -McKinsey Global Institute
Risk & Dispute Management
Maintaining a historical repository of projects over their lifespan will provide offsite cross-departmental personnel to browse project statuses, assess compliance, resolve disputes and more — retrospectively and in real-time.
- Update and track contract compliance checklists with live assessments.
- Avoid disputes with visual data repositories across all projects and sites over their development.
- Resolve disputes and claims with time-based, high-resolution imagery.
- Improve quality assurance with centrally located data, accessible across teams.
- Leverage visual data to record and authenticate theft and vandalism claims.
- Detect and report hard-to-locate defects sooner with remote monitoring and predictive analytics.
- Reduce total warrantee issues, disputes and claims before they become a resource burden.
Fact: The average claim value for infrastructure projects is around $3 million, the median claim is $400k. -McGraw-Hill Construction
Claim resolution favors the organization that can provide the greatest volume of project documentation to support its stated position and associated cost impacts. -KPMG
Estimating & Design
Precision visual data, collected at high frequency and fidelity, will enable teams to better estimate projects, layer 3D designs on geospatial interfaces, and enhance collaborations with real-time markup and sharing capabilities.
- Automate and improve the accuracy of bid estimates with better data, share across all stakeholders.
- Blend 4D drone data with GIS for improved digital model development and integrity.
- Communicate and update designs and blueprints with markups, annotations and tags.
- Increase the detail and frequency of site surveys for improved valuations and design accuracy.
Fact: 9 in 10 projects face a cost overrun, with costs 50% higher than expected in real terms. -Oxford University
