An Israeli startup company called Ception is developing a "Mobileye" safety system for heavy equipment on construction sites.
Ception’s system includes a hardware kit consisting of large vehicles such as tractors and trucks; an alert system for the vehicle operator; and a real-time command and control system for construction site managers, according to an article in Geektime, a website that covers the Israeli high-tech industry and related startups.
"We have identified a huge need in markets like construction and mining as their existing systems do not provide a solution and sometimes actually interfere with the day-to-day work," explains the company's CEO and one of the founders, Tal Israel. Ception’s system, which uses a set of sensors installed on the vehicle and processes information based on artificial intelligence algorithms, allows an accurate spatial understanding of the vehicles in the environment and of the construction site itself.
Company CTO Yossi Buda says that the use of artificial intelligence comes in several layers. He tells Geektime that the AI is integrated at the level of the individual vehicle and the whole site-with dedicated algorithms that extract three-dimensional information based on the sensors, the position of the vehicle in the field (which is determined by computer vision algorithms), identify hazards and safety incidents, and map the worksite.
Read the entire Geektime article here.
Source: Geektime
