INGENIEUR
Making Construction
Safe with AI
By Wang Changxin
Yunlu Technology
In any scenario, from smart cities to smart
transportation, construction safety is of paramount
importance. Wang Changxin, CEO of Beijing-based
Yunlu Technology, explains how Yunlu provides
solutions to analyse monitored data from the
entire construction lifecycle to discover potential
construction problems and minimise quality and
safety incidents.
I
n many countries, infrastructure disaster-
prevention mechanisms and prediction methods
are now incorporated into key future plans.
Infrastructure disasters often involve both natural
and human factors. Natural disasters can be
predicted through environmental monitoring such
as meteorology, hydrology, and geological disaster
predictions. Disasters caused by human error, on
the other hand, can be avoided through regulations,
design, and online monitoring systems.
Yunlu Technology has worked with Huawei
Cloud to build a world-leading structural health
monitoring (SHM) big data Internet of Things
(IoT) platform using new technologies that covers
the entire construction lifecycle and improves
construction safety. By analysing data from the
Operation and Maintenance (O&M) stage, it is
possible to control the usage and development
trends formed during the O&M stage and provide
data to support the departments that make
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maintenance decisions. Construction period
monitoring and the analysis of O&M test data can
provide a useful reference for the design stage.
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and
medical health monitoring are somewhat similar.
Both involve collecting data and analysing it to
make conclusions about diagnosis and treatment.
SHM has been developing for over 20 years. In
most cases, traditional sensors are still employed
and, with the level of data compiled and collected,
it is impossible to precisely or effectively analyse
the data.
Multiple disciplines
This is an industry that combines multiple
disciplines and domains. First, you need
technological support that includes sensors,
networks, cloud platforms, system integration,