We have seen clients who already have Reference Designs (also called template designs).

As a result, it doesn’t compete with cell phones and other devices connected via WiFi on construction sites.As LoRaWAN is very long-range, it enables construction sites to be quite remote, representing great potential for Australia where it’s not unusual to travel five to ten hours to a site.

Europe is already covered in LoRaWAN with something like 10,000 gateways across Europe, over 1,000 in Australia, and around 800 in the U.S. One barrier which presents for the latter, is that their cellular network, which runs across states, makes it difficult to talk between networks.As such, we need to remove that network issue from IoT construction.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.That’s why Bryden Wood likes the term.

Design to Value.The goal here is to design things with lean construction principles: using the least amount of material, handled the fewest number of times, delivered quickly, with the right information, and without waste.. Aiming to realise these lean construction goals, regardless of whether that occurs on-site or off-site, is the real objective.

Once this level of understanding is in place, informed decisions can be made about the most effective ways to go about making things happen.. Johnston says this includes decisions about the level of granularity of component standardisation which is required, as well as whether work is best done on-site or off-site.It’s really about individual value drivers and these vary from client to client depending on their needs.. “Construction too easily gets into the solutions mode,” he says, “and starts thinking of the solution before answering the question.”.