Datumate: Catalysts for Construction Infrastructure Projects "As-Built" Process Automation

The traditional and rather laborious approach to surveying has made a significant percentage of construction projects run into overtime and go ‘over budget’. In a typical construction project survey scenario, 70 percent of the cost of the processes is the work done in the field and the conventional field to plan to execute is arduous, expensive and fraught with inefficiencies. For instance, the crew of a UK-based multibillion-dollar construction company had projected that it would require more than twenty-man days for the mapping and surveying of a highway bridge reconstruction project. Moreover, the task demanded minimal traffic interference on the bridge, and on the road-rail intersection that was beneath it. In the light of their earlier associations with Israel based Datumate, the construction giant sought to evaluate the value proposition of Datumate’s Site Survey Solution. The results were astounding; Datumate had the task done with just a day and a half of drone flight and office analytics extraction, and were able to achieve a whopping 80 percent of savings on the cost of measurement. Datumate utilizes state-of-the-art image-processing, advanced drones and camera technologies that dramatically reduce the amount of time spent by the surveying crews in the field thereby speeding up construction “As-Built” progress checks and shortening infrastructure inspection duration while maintaining survey- grade accuracy.

Datumate's automated and digitized approach to surveying ‘brings the site to the office’: a facilitation which extends beyond the surveyor, all the way to the construction company management through Project, Finance, BIM, Information and QA managers with time and cost savings that transcend through the project execution. The software stack of Datumate comprises of DatuSurvey™ and DatuSite™ offerings that turn drone data and camera imagery quickly into accurate geo-referenced 2D maps and 3D models, saving the need for expensive and risky field work and expediting deliveries. A unique proposition of the stack is the capability to merge 2D and 3D mapping thereby uniting the former’s pixel level precision measurement with the latter’s lucid visualization advantage that results in precise geo-referenced data delivery.