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Virtual tape measure app shows promise for putting augmented reality to work
At its recent Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 11. Beyond tweaks to core parts of how users currently navigate iOS and major improvements to file handling on iPads, the biggest news with the new OS was the addition of what Apple calls ARKit. The new platform […]
June 28, 2017
Technology
Parrot intros thermal imaging drone package aimed at construction, trades
Less than two months after announcing an affordable drone package aimed at allowing real estate and construction professionals to quickly create 3D models of jobsites and properties, French drone maker Parrot has announced the launch of a new business unit that will focus on commercial applications. As part of that announcement, Parrot has also introduced a new […]
May 10, 2017
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New construction tech course is training drone pilots, preparing Ga. Tech students for industry’s future
Five years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find anyone that would call construction a transforming industry being reshaped by technology. The ‘T-word’ is looked on with a fair amount of skepticism by those in this industry, as it typically means higher cost and, oftentimes, less power or efficiency than the way a task has been […]
April 27, 2017
Technology
Fixed-wing eBee Plus surveying drone coming to Cat dealers through Airware/senseFly partnership
Commercial drone technology company Airware has announced a partnership with another drone manufacturer that will add a different type of aircraft to the company’s current offerings. Airware, which sells drones and end-to-end mapping solutions to construction, mining, surveying and other business customers, currently offers only rotary drones (those driven by a number of rotors). But through a […]
April 26, 2017
Technology
How Hensel Phelps carefully deployed drones on its construction sites
Twenty seconds in, DJI’s most recent promotional video for its Matrice 200 series shows an operator in a hard hat and safety glasses flying a drone outside of a glassy high-rise building set against a brilliant blue sky. Like most DJI videos, this one provides spectacular footage to highlight the Matrice’s capabilities and specs—the viewer […]
April 17, 2017
Machine control
Leica unveils new excavator machine control sensors, cloud and web interfaces and collaboration with Deere and Shantui
Leica’s new ConX cloud solution and web interface seamlessly integrates, manages and analyses survey and machine control workflows for heavy construction projects. ConX allows users to share and visualizing positioning, reference models and constructed data. Field and machine control devices connected to ConX can remotely receive and share information and users can visualize the data […]
March 31, 2017
Technology
Volvo launches ActiveCare Direct 24/7 machine-monitoring and analytics service
Your machines are equipped with telematics but what do you do with all the data? Volvo Construction Equipment introduced its answer at the ConExpo show in Las Vegas earlier this month. ActiveCare Direct is the company’s new machine monitoring and monthly fleet analysis service and it’s available for various Volvo models. Data analysts staff the company’s new Uptime […]
March 27, 2017
Technology
Topcon unveils ZPS concrete paver automation, bigger machine control monitors alongside slew of upgrades and updates
Topcon unveiled a slew of new products, product improvements and upgrades at the ConExpo show earlier this month. The most significant of these is the new ZPS concrete paving system. The system is a robotic total station that operates using less hardware than a traditional local positioning system or LPS. For tracking and guidance, the ZPS […]
March 27, 2017
Technology
Sheriff’s drone busts $400,000 heavy equipment theft ring in Maryland
In just a few short years drones have matured from a hobbyist gadget into a sophisticated tool that can save contractors a lot of time and a lot of money on tasks like progress photos, surveying, asset management and more.
March 20, 2017
Technology
Trimble goes mast-free on dozer GPS, puts a telematics tablet in vocational trucks and partners with new OEMs
Trimble has announced it is joining the ranks of manufacturers who offer “mast-free” aftermarket 3D GPS systems for dozers. The hardware for Trimble’s Earthworks for Dozers uses three inertial measurement units (IMUs) to locate the blade of the dozer in space and two GPS/GNSS receivers mounted on the cab of the machine. Contractors and operators […]
March 15, 2017
Dealers
John Deere dealers to offer Kespry’s automated construction drone service in exclusive deal
Against the backdrop of ConExpo 2017, a show which highlighted drone technology with a drone aviary in its Tech Experience area, John Deere and Kespry announced an exclusive global strategic alliance through which Deere Construction & Forestry dealers will provide the Kespry Aerial Intelligence System to their customers on jobsites around the world, beginning in North […]
March 10, 2017
ConExpo-Con/Agg
Cat: Connected assets, ‘voice of the machine’ will drive growth, big productivity advances
Caterpillar says it’s putting its future bets on the huge opportunities it sees beyond the iron, in comments made this weekend on the eve of ConExpo-Con/Agg 2017. “Instead of Cat being a brand on the jobsite, we’re pushing to make Cat the jobsite brand,” says Paolo Fellin, Cat vice president, global construction and infrastructure. Cat […]
March 6, 2017
Technology
Caterpillar invests in busybusy with plans to integrate app’s digital time sheet service
Caterpillar Ventures has announced an investment in busybusy, the startup development firm behind the digital timesheet app of the same name. The deal includes plans to integrate the software into the Cat Connect suite of connected machine offerings. busybusy was founded by Isaac Barlow, an excavation contractor from St. George, Utah. After pinpointing labor costs as […]
March 6, 2017
Trucks
UPS launches drone from truck to make first unmanned residential delivery
UPS has successfully tested a drone designed to launch from the top of one of its delivery trucks. The test, performed Feb. 20 in Lithia, Florida, with Workhorse Group, an Ohio-based electric truck and drone developer, successfully sent the drone first on an autonomous package delivery and then back to the truck while it was out […]
February 24, 2017
Technology
AT&T’s LTE-equipped drones look like a great way to connect remote jobsites
Though drones have already been given construction tasks such as inspections, jobsite safety monitoring, progress photos and surveying, a future industry use of unmanned aircraft could be delivering internet access to remote jobsites. AT&T has begun testing drones as a quick way to deploy LTE wireless data in areas that are either experiencing a network outage or […]
February 23, 2017
Technology
Kespry Drone 2s brings centimeter-level survey accuracy, single base station setup to automated drone platform
Drone maker and aerial intelligence platform Kespry has introduced a big update to its Drone 2 hardware that greatly improves the unmanned aircraft’s performance while increasing its accuracy and reliability. Last year, Kespry launched Drone 2.0, a complete drone solution aimed at construction and surveying that fully integrates drone hardware and cloud-based image rendering software in order […]
February 22, 2017
Technology
What to see at ConExpo 2017: Bobcat, Kespry, Doosan Portable Power in the Gold Hall/Lot
The big show is fast approaching, and ConExpo exhibitors have given us a sneak peek into what they’ll have in store for those attending the March 7-11 massive exhibition. You can check out previous entries in our ConExpo 2017 previews here. Here’s the spotlight on three exhibitors in the Gold Hall/Lot areas: Bobcat, booth G-4476 […]
February 15, 2017
Roadbuilding
Minnesota DOT testing drones for bridge inspections
The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) is conducting a study to test using drones for bridge inspections, hoping the technology will help save money and provide an eye in the sky to see how bridges are holding up, KARE 11 reports. Cameras on the drone allow inspectors to see the bridge in real time and detect temperature changes […]
February 15, 2017
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