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Tracking Social Distancing using Artificial intelligence

With Corona cases in India live count crossing 28000, the country is today facing one of the toughest challenges ever faced. In a country like India, where the population and the total area to be administered both are high, it is really difficult to bring this pandemic under control. In such scenarios, lockdown in India and social distancing have proved to be effective steps in delaying or stopping community transmission.

Social distancing as per WHO is to maintain at least 1m or 3 feet distance from each other to avoid transmission of virus from one person to another. Airpix’s AI based video analytics solutions can help police and government agencies to monitor this autonomously by analyzing CCTV videos in real time. The solution can be deployed at any site and be scaled city wide or state wide.

AIRPIX AI Powered video analytics solution detects social distancing violations, provides heat maps for easy visualization for the officials and sends alerts in real time.

Detect: Our robust deep learning algorithms are capable of detecting people in multiple locations and scenarios. The feed from multiple CCTV cameras are taken at a central location and then our models run on those feeds to detect and track people and their movements.

Analyze: The algorithms then further analyze the videos to generate data points that highlight social distancing violations. Based on pre-defined rules as per government requirements, our algorithm highlights locations with people violating social distancing norms. It creates a heat map and projects the locations with maximum violations for authorities to visualize the situation easily and then act accordingly.

Act: Our autonomous solution helps police officials to have an overview of the situation easily and take immediate actions to curb the spread of coronavirus. Based on the location of the detections, alerts can be sent to concerned officials over email or message immediately so that action can be taken without any delay.

Scale: Since the scale of the situation is such that the entire city or entire state has to be monitored by the concerned state departments, it is infeasible to be done manually. That is why the need of the hour is to have such an AI powered autonomous solution in place that can run continuously across the network of CCTV cameras without any human intervention so that the officials can focus on important decision making and implementation rather than the laborious task of keeping an eye on countless CCTV videos.

To know more about the solution or its feasibility to be deployed at your establishment, do get in touch with us at contact@airpix.in or call us at +91-9321021492

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The Impact of Drones in Construction Industries

Drone technology is among one of the entrancing construction trends for the past few years. Drone technology offers benefits from on-site safety to remote monitoring that has revolutionized the entire project life-cycle. Drone photos, images, and videos enable the construction professionals to scope out projects, track building progress, and receive real-time updates. Drone technology has transformed the planning stage of construction by land surveying and data capturing. Drones are gaining popularity in the construction industry since they can save time and money for the developers. Builders use drones for an aerial view of any site at ease and capture real-time data to understand what’s going on in the site.

Drones are also commonly used for project progress monitoring where less time is spent mapping a job site and stakeholders get knowledge about every aspect of the project. Drones keep the project on track due to transparency and smooth communication. Drones technology has helped the construction companies in providing their clients with BIM 4D Services that are associated with the time frame of finishing the project in time.

Ways how Drone Technology is helping the Construction Industry

Land surveying: Land surveying is a complex and time-consuming part of infrastructure projects. Traditional land survey methods are gradually getting replaced by the aerial survey by UAVs and Drones. Drone surveys have reduced labor and time required to carry out large-area surveys and also provide accurate data with better insights. During tender participation or new land acquisition, drone surveys can help for a quick survey, on-ground feature analysis, and cut-fill volume analysis thus enabling better estimation of construction and development costs. Project progress monitoring: Drone survey and drone video-based project progress monitoring are some of the most efficient and transparent ways of project progress monitoring. Drone images help to capture the as-is status of the project site. Drone videos integrated with geotagged information and GPS details help project managers and higher management to easily understand the project progress of linear projects such as highway construction, railway line laying, and oil & gas pipelines. Monitoring multiple job sites: With the help of drone monitoring, review of multiple job sites can be easier. Drones can provide you with aerial views of large construction sites that capture the status of the actual work that is going on and what needs to be done. Using our platform, you can better monitor your different sites and have transparent & visual data on date wise progress made at the site. Marketing and promotion: Construction companies use drones to film aerial shots of their sites before development and during the launch of their projects. Visualization of barren land can be done better by integrating drone videos and photographs with 3D rendered and scaled models of the projects thus helping them to communicate better with potential investors and other stakeholders. Aerial virtual tour provided by Airpix helps real estate companies to better highlight the strategic location of projects while at the same time capturing the beautiful views from their site. Site Safety: Drones can be an effective way to improve site safety by enabling continuous monitoring of the site and workforce compliances. Project managers get a complete overview of the sites on a daily basis to identify safety hazards earlier and avoid accidents at construction project sites. Due to better safety measures, construction companies can have better insurance plans for their project sites. Job progress to clients: Regular drone videos and images of the site help clients to know the status of construction projects without having to visit the site. This improves reporting and communication between developers and clients.

Drones are becoming an essential technology to be used in construction companies. It can produce high-quality images and video that enables the client to communicate easily internally as well as with clients, investors, and other stakeholders. Owning and operating drones might not be a scalable way for infrastructure companies to leverage the advantages of drone technology across all their sites. We at Airpix, with drone pilots across India and efficient & automated data processing pipelines, can help you realize the best advantages of using drones for your construction and infrastructure projects.