b'(continued from page 17) With more devices gathering information on jobsites today.The firm says that Safety AI is available for all customers of than ever before, the Westminster, Colorado-based contechDroneDeploys current Ground solution, and can be activated giant says making sense of geospatial data has becomeinstantly. It can also be run on historical data, ensuring past risks increasingly complex. are identified and addressed, the firm said.The solution stitches together datasets captured with 3D laserMOCA Systems scanning, mobile mapping and drones and securely shares itMOCA Systems Inc. recently enhanced its Touchplan digitalfor more effective collaboration, Trimble said in a news production planning platform to enable synchronization withrelease. The service is available as an extension to TrimbleOracles project management and scheduling system, Primavera Connect, the firms cloud-based data platform that hasP6, according to the news release. supported more than 30 million users to date. The Boston-based firm says that the union of technologiesTrimble Reality Capture offers a secure and intuitive web- eliminates the problem of schedule drift, where the P6 master based solution for point clouds and 360-degree imagery, theschedule in the back office becomes out of sync with live work-firm said, allowing pros in construction, surveying, flow events in the field, resulting in increased budget and sched-transportation infrastructure, utilities and other industries toule risks for large, complex construction projects. work on complex reality capture projects while maintaining data integrity and accuracy.It combines the time-oriented P6, which follows the critical path method, with action-oriented features of Touchplan, which is Trimble integrated Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage andbased on the Last Planner System. By working together they keep Azure Synapse Analytics into the platform to reduce the timethe jobsite workflow and the contract schedule continuouslyingesting, storing and processing massive datasets.synchronized, but the systems have different logic, data formats and end-users, making automated integration problematic.This new service applies cloud technology in a new way for large data packages, allowing users to significantly scaleThe latest enhancements to Touchplan provide a novel solution to performance and maximize data value, said Boris Skopljak,this problem, the firm says. vice president, geospatial at Trimble, in the release. With this launch, we are a step closer to realizing living digitalSome planning software vendors have attempted to automate twins and artificial intelligence applications at scale.data and logic translation between the CPM system and LPS tools, resulting in a dissatisfying loss of control and autonomy for DroneDeploythe users of both systems, said Brett Adamczyk, MOCAs soft-DroneDeploy says it has developed an eye for detail that ware division chief, in the release. By contrast, with Touchplan leverages artificial intelligence to spot safety risks. Earlierwe took a different, human-in-the-loop approach to keepthis month, the San Francisco-based aerial reality captureexperienced CPM and LPS experts in control of data selection firm announced the launch of Safety AI to automaticallyand logic translation, while eliminating the drudgery of manuallyidentify safety risks on construction sites with the help ofreformatting data and moving it between systems. Google and OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, according to a news release. The new Touchplan features have been used successfully by a panel of experienced P6 and Touchplan users who haveSafety AI automatically analyzes thousands of images alreadycollaborated with the Touchplan engineering team to develop the captured on construction projects, to detect all visible OSHAmost effective way to unify the systems. safety risks. The AI then ranks them based on severity and informs the safety team automatically.Combining the systems in this way is a boon to our planning productivity. It lets our experts spend more time managing project With Safety AI, your most seasoned safety managers cancomplexity, and less time managing project data, said Layne monitor safety practice on every project, every day, JamesHess, corporate director of scheduling and planning at Utah-based Pipe, DroneDeploys chief product officer, said in the Jacobsen Construction, a P6 and Touchplan customer, in therelease. release. The firm said beta customers leveraged the tech to reduce theThe new features are available at no additional cost to current and occurrence of unsafe conditions by up to 89% within threenew Touchplan customers. weeks. Tapping large multimodal models, the technologywhich the company said was near impossible just 12 months agoreports on visible safety risks to a 95% accuracylevel. Troy Nichols, assistant safety director at Ogden, Utah-based contractor Wadman Corp. and a Safety AI user, said in the release he likes the extra set of eyes. Im not at the project every day so when I receive the Safety AI reports, Im able to reach out to the project team so we can discuss the activities that are in progress and determine what we need to do to get any safety risks taken care of, he said.27'