company ’ s wider mission statement of providing powerful data and insight for all . Bird . i , Guillo says , is “ democratising the access to earth observation imagery , and more importantly to the insight it contains . “ The two products allow us to address different problems for customers . Construction Progress Tracker is more a matter of operations cost reduction and how we help customers to target their resources to projects that were on hold and suddenly resuming , or vice-versa . The New Construction Tracker , on the other hand , offers customers opportunities to increase their revenues through developing their project portfolio by scaling up to new countries or continents .”
Thus far , the technology has proved highly successful . It has , for example , tracked a significant increase in the amount of new residential developments during the second half of 2017 in the southern sector of Dubai Creek , and closely monitored new major retail complexes such as the
Dubai Expo 2020 .
The company has plans to roll out tracker technology to more than 15,000 construction projects in the Middle East by the end of 2018 . Moving forwards , the potential within the technology means it can easily be extended to other industry sectors too . These could include the oil and gas industry , power and water sectors , mining or manufacturing and more . “ We can detect any new construction activities within a specific distance from an oil pipeline , or things like vegetation changes in the surroundings of rail networks to prevent ground movement ,” says Guillo . “ Initially we plan to roll out trackers first in MENA , and then to look to expand to new continents based on the market demand . The advantage is that , by keeping them all running , we will accumulate all these data points that will build up a detailed global database of construction sites and their historical and current status .”
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