Underneath the gleaming surface of modern megacities is an archaic patchwork of antiquated building inspection processes long overdue for a 21st century makeover. Meet H3 Dynamics, a that is using drones and ground robots as the eyes and ears of engineers currently grounded by the pandemic and long hampered by last-century norms.
鈥淏y automating and digitizing visual inspection processes, we鈥檙e creating an accessible layer of information on structures and buildings in any city or corporate location,鈥� said Taras Wankewycz, founder and CEO of H3 Dynamics. 鈥淥rganizations can track the physical conditions of urban and remote facilities with a level of safety, efficiency, and accuracy not possible before.鈥�
Perfecting the Human Plus Machine Equation
Headquartered in Singapore, H3 Dynamics customers include companies and government agencies worldwide across a long list of sectors such as smart cities, real estate, maritime, oil and gas, utilities, renewable energy, and mining. Customers might be private equity firms that own facilities, insurance companies, site operators, safety inspection and certification organizations, or regulators involved in legislating safety mandates. H3 Dynamics also has clients that resell its digitized visual monitoring services to their own customers.
What customers have in common are hard-to-reach sites, from the tallest skyscrapers to remote industrial outposts that defy the most intrepid human being鈥檚 effort to scale. But this is not a story about machines replacing people.
Drones and ground robots, as well as people, can capture information from buildings with video and other camera images, bringing this data into the H3 Dynamics platform. The system uses technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and 3D modeling to create an interactive map that displays defects on the scanned structure surfaces, classifying potential risks, whether aesthetic anomalies or unsafe areas that require repair. Civil engineers or other recognized industry experts review and validate the automated findings. Customers can generate a written report that details safety risks. In addition, the company has created shelter systems where drones and other robots can get batteries recharged and upload data to the H3 Dynamics cloud.
Speed, Productivity, and Scale
H3 Dynamics customers have sped up building inspections, increasing productivity by 70% in some cases. For example, traditional inspection methods for high-rise buildings typically take several weeks or months, require expensive equipment rentals, and pose higher safety risks to people.
鈥淥ur end-to-end report generation is much lower cost, and because we鈥檙e using AI and high-definition and thermal cameras, it typically finds 20% more defects than human-centered methods,鈥� Wankewycz said. 鈥淐ompletion can be as fast as a couple of days 鈥� from data collection to analysis and report delivery, including official validation from a certified civil engineer.鈥�
Intelligence Delivers Business Results
A seasoned entrepreneur, Wankewycz channeled his early experiences with drones to create H3 Dynamics. He initially foresaw the commercial market opportunities for standalone drones as remote sensing systems while working on battery alternatives to extend the flight duration of fixed-wing unmanned aircrafts. When a large oil and gas customer bought his startup鈥檚 battery alternatives for its drones that inspected remote pipeline networks, Wankewycz was inspired.
鈥淚nstead of using our battery alternatives for longer flights, we thought it would be more valuable to create charging shelters for smaller, less expensive drones that could be placed at intervals along the pipeline,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e realized that we needed to develop a centralized, cloud-based system with enough intelligence to capture, manage, and analyze the huge amounts of unstructured data that would be acquired in this way. We morphed into a digital service provider that now sells business results as a recurring service to our customers.鈥�
麻豆原创.iO as a Path to Intelligent Enterprise
It is no coincidence that H3 Dynamics has a target market closely aligned to some of 麻豆原创鈥檚 industry strongholds. As a participant in the , Wankewycz appreciated the company鈥檚 active support in exploring ways to innovate for mutual customer needs.
鈥溌槎乖粹�檚 vision of the Intelligent Enterprise is exactly what we鈥檙e aiming for with H3 Dynamics,鈥� he said. 鈥淣ow that H3 Dynamics is integrated with , customers will be able to send work orders to address problems that our system has flagged as risk alerts from drones and other image data. We鈥檙e excited to help close the loop on data between the physical world and operational systems.鈥�
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Cloud Powers Global Plans
With 麻豆原创鈥檚 guidance as an established global company, Wankewycz envisioned unlimited expansion opportunities beyond his current customer base in Singapore, Europe, and the U.S.
鈥淎s a cloud-based company, we have no geographical boundaries,鈥� he said. 鈥淚鈥檝e always imagined how industries can evolve in five to 10 years, which I鈥檝e translated into H3 Dynamics. I see myself as a puzzle builder, bringing technologies together to create innovations with a lasting future.鈥�
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