Working on a construction site during a viral pandemic can be a harrowing experience, given the close quarters that workers often find themselves in. General rules about social distancing easy to maintain on sidewalks can be more stressful when clambering around a crowded active jobsite.
Across the industry,现有技术被quickly adapted帮助监控工人并尽量避免可能导致Covid-19病毒传播的拥堵。
Computer vision paired with artificial intelligence is already in use on construction sites, analyzing photos and video of a site to spot safety hazards and identify possible construction errors. But an idea pitched from a construction contractor has spurred A.I. vendor Smartvid.io to add social distancing monitoring to its feature set.
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“We wouldn’t have done this if not for a customer asking for it,” says Josh Kanner, CEO and founder of Smartvid.io. The company’s A.I., Vinnie, is already able to identify and tag human beings individually from video or still images.
但是几个星期前与用户聊天的同时，它如何有助于满足新的OSHA社会疏远建议的想法。“我刚刚随机向他们提出了这个想法，”胡椒建设技术服务副总裁Jennifer Suerth召回了Jennifer Suerth。“施工继续进行的大事是我们有一些项目，客户在现场支付额外的劳动力，以监测[社会疏散]的人并将它们分开。”新利18备用网址
Suerth suggested that since they were already capturing so many images on site, and Smartvid.io’s AI can already detect where workers are and whether they are wearing PPE like safety gloves, it could monitor grouping as well.
Kanner跳到了这个想法，并将他的团队设为任务。“我们把一切都放弃了工作，并且能够在不到三个星期的时间内转身，”他说。该公司的A.I.Vinnie已经能够对工作人员进行一些近似检测，以进行正常安全监测，因此它只是一个在系统中创建一个新标签的问题，以便注释10个或更多人和其他形式的拥挤的群体。
“Now the user can get a daily, automatic report from every one of their projects in the country on whether social distancing is happening or not,” explains Kanner. “The idea isn’t to slam anybody or get them in trouble but to give an indicator for safety.” Smartvid.io users can also watch the program at work in real-time on live video and photos from their jobsites.
SmartVID.IO集成了来自Procore，Autodesk和Oracle的主要项目管理软件，它能够从Procore和Autodesk系统生成一键式安全观察。它也可作为独立应用程序提供。
“他们向我展示了他们前几天做了什么，并通过一些情景谈话，我对此留下了深刻的印象，”苏默干说。“它只是表明，安全是一个优先权的数字，现在的社会疏散是人们正在谈论的一件事。”
“然而，我们两个月前我们跑就业就会看起来完全不同于我们在路上两到六个月的路上，”Barton Malow的高级VDC经理Ted Jennings说。“这不仅仅是风暴我们等待的风暴 - 将有不同的安全和健康程序到位。”
Jennings says Barton Malow has been using Smartvid.io for about a year, and he thinks the new social distancing feature is a good step. The company already uses StructionSite for site documentation, so it has a steady supply of photos to run through the A.I. “Seriously though, props to Smartvid for being able to quickly adapt their A.I. to social distancing. I’m really interested to see what other software [providers] are going to do to help with COVID-19.”
Kanner说，新的SmartVid.io标签，集团的人员将在4月6日开始的平台上。该公司还宣布，它在未来两个月内免费提供软件。
