The ability of a classification system like Uniclass (or some future version of it) to allow data aggregation at all scales from complexes to products and everything in between, will be exactly what is needed to allow the future state I described, and I believe it will be a key way in which we will navigate the marketplace;.
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.
It’s this data that enables us to do better designs, and better implement modules etc.Still, Johnston acknowledges that the design community is currently meeting the idea of DfMA with more fear than excitement.. “The old cookie-cutter buildings get trotted out as a reason not to do DfMA,” he says.
“There’s so much to get on with, there's so much to build.There's so much opportunity in this space that designers should be seeing this as a phenomenal space to step into and an exciting place.
But it doesn't feel like that's necessarily landing with the design community at the moment.”.Marks describes the world of the “new possible,” where everyone becomes a productiser making products, where owners become true influencers, and where some, like the ‘super subs’, general contractors, and builders, become systems integrators.
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