Drones fly over the construction site once a day
Constructions workers building the stadium for the
Sacramento Kings in California have a boss watching over them in a very literal
way. They are being monitored by drones.
Once a day, drones fly over the construction site and take
videos that are converted into 3D images, which can then be compared to
construction plans to highlight areas of structure that are falling behind
schedule, MIT Technology review reports.
Some concerns have been raised about worker privacy or
incentivizing construction workers to work longer hours. But Mani
Golparvar-Fard, who helped develop this drone software, says the drones aren’t
so different than normal bosses.“It’s not new to the construction industry that
there would either be people standing and observing operations, or that there
would be fixed cameras,” he told MIT.
The stadium is set to open in October 2016, if the drones
keep construction on schedule.
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