Once the customer is happy with that price, they bring the components together.
In the case of LoRaWAN, private networks can be established, in addition to the public ones.Lamont believes these private networks are where we’ll see real genesis and IoT technology emerging in construction.
WiFi is full, however this would make millions of IP addresses available to us..This type of technology is currently being looked at with great interest by mining sites.With just a single gateway, it’s possible to achieve five or ten kilometers of distance, picking up gate sensors and various pieces of important information.
This might include things such as whether someone is walking in an area they shouldn’t be, or even checking to see whether a structure may have moved over a three- or six-month period.This is the type of information that’s truly valuable onsite, and we should be interrogating it.
However, it’s important to keep in mind the temporary nature of construction sites.
Once they’ve gone, we’ve lost the opportunity to use construction technology to gather that simple, valuable information that can tell us what’s really happening.Creating an opportunity: prefabrication and productisation in construction.
The problem we’re currently facing, Marks says, is that “we're only talking about the baby steps of prefabrication, or really fabrication, at this point.We're not enabling productisation.
There's a difference.And I think we have to quickly almost leapfrog over fabrication to productisation.”.