Construction sites are inherently dangerous places to work resulting in thousands of construction workers being injured each year. As an illustration, whereas only 6 percent of American workers are employed in the construction industry, this industry accounts for over 20 percent of worker fatalities nationwide (1).
This difference highlights the need for ongoing efforts to increase workplace safety for people employed in the construction sector. Thankfully, this is where LiDAR technology comes in: to save lives thanks to capabilities that were not available before.
Why is LiDAR data useful?
One of the greatest benefits of LiDAR is that it’s able to produce highly accurate, detailed 3D images of the surrounding environment in any lighting conditions.
From there, these images are then processed and stored as datasets that can be used in basically two different forms:
In real-time: that is, the information is used instantaneously, for example, in order to raise an alert following a dangerous event;
Aggregated over time: the information is used to get statistical measurements over time that deliver insight. For example, in order to understand in what places and when these kinds of events are happening.
Outsight provides a LiDAR-agnostic software solution that makes it easy and fast to employ LiDAR in any application.
Benefits of LiDAR in Construction
As we’ve already discussed, working on a construction site is inherently dangerous. Even if every worker on the job site follows all the safety protocols and best practices to the letter, there’s no way to completely eliminate all risk.
However, with the help of LiDAR, there are some pretty clear ways in which construction site safety can be improved and the consequences severely decreased.
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