At a construction site, a robot inspection solution involving Webuild uses both robot dogs and robotic vehicles, combining automatic navigation, panoramic inspection and AI recognition for site inspection tasks.
The solution can recognize and read instruments such as flow meters and pressure gauges, and identify situations including workers without safety helmets or workwear and people entering hazardous areas. The project also uses gas monitoring, acoustic imaging and non-contact acoustic signature sensing, bringing physical signals beyond vision into the inspection process.
Area-safety functions include entry and boundary alarms for predefined hazardous or restricted areas, as well as AI identification of hazardous areas at the site. The linkage between identified areas and boundary alarms depends on project configuration.
Notification options include on-site voice and sound-and-light alerts, management-platform notifications and mobile notifications. Notification strategies are configured for the project based on risk level and responses to alerts. When the configured waiting period expires without a response, the alarm level is raised and more intensive alerting methods are used.
Webuild is responsible for panoramic sensing equipment, gas and acoustic sensing devices, AI algorithms and navigation algorithms. Robot manufacturers provide the robot-dog and robotic-vehicle bodies, while Webuild and channel partners jointly deliver the project.
What tasks can robots perform on a construction site?
The project described here uses robot dogs and robotic vehicles for automatic navigation, panoramic inspection and AI recognition. Tasks include recognizing and reading flow meters and pressure gauges, and identifying missing safety helmets or workwear and entry into hazardous areas. The project also uses gas monitoring, acoustic imaging and non-contact acoustic signature sensing.
Does Webuild provide robot bodies or sensing and algorithms?
In this project, Webuild provides panoramic equipment, gas and acoustic sensing devices, AI algorithms and navigation algorithms. Robot manufacturers supply the bodies, and Webuild and channel partners jointly deliver the project.
What happens when an alert receives no response?
Notifications may use on-site voice and sound-and-light alerts, the management platform and mobile devices. According to the project's configured risk levels and waiting periods, an unanswered alert is escalated using a higher alarm level and more intensive notification methods.