The way forward: Construction Management is not enough without Construction Camera

Construction manager is the your first step to success accompanied after by the Construction management plan

Real Time Monitoring is not necessarily why you need the Construction camera

What most construction sites need is

>>a more daily basis documentary

>>a less expensive TOC ( total cost of ownership: it’s a more project based expenses vs the fixed estate investment)

>>less expensive cameras ( Do-it- yourself styled installation and operation cameras ), and no service or maintenance cost required

The Construction camera video is the most intuitive way for the Construction management

Ensuring project success (Performance) in various segments

 -Accelerate the physical construction (Schedule)

– Reduce the cost of the project (Cost)

 -Compare the conceptual design with the actual physical construction ( Virtual vs Physical , Plan vs Real), Project review

– Decrease the overall time required for planning and design ( Project life cycle management)

How to establish Construction cameras at jobsite?

One of the references is the Brinno Construction cameras employment view

You may have the UI like this–Eye Fi Center if using together with Eye Fi Pro X2 card

The Best part you may leverage the Flickr FREE 1T Cloud service.  The amazing 1,000 Giga bytes

What do you want from Construction Cameras ?

ADVANTAGES OF USING CONSTRUCTION CAMERAS WITHIN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT:

The project can most efficiently and economically achieve their building program goals through the use of  DIY setup Construction cameras IN DIFFERENT PERIODS AND PLACES.

In general, adequate deployment of Construction Cameras will be able to:

 -Ensure project success (Performance)

 -Accelerate the physical construction (Schedule)

– Reduce the cost of the project (Cost)

 -Compare the conceptual design with the actual physical construction ( Virtual vs Physical , Plan vs Real)

– Decrease the overall time required for planning and design ( Project life cycle management)

 Left: Virtual Construction Planning

 -Frame the framework for the overall material resource plan ( MRP )

– Provide continuity and improve project coordination throughout both the design and construction phases.

– Provide you more continuous control of the project; you are an active team member and approve all critical decisions affecting cost and schedule.

The must documentary areas and activities for the construction cameras: What do you want from Construction cameras ?

(1 )foundation Grouting

(2) Piling 

(3) Diaphragm wall

These construction camera videos are basically for:

1. Government inspections—Compliances ( Labors (human rights) + Fire (industrial safety)+ Construction regulations + Envieonment )

2. Internal use ( workers+gears+ mass equipment) utilization and efficienecy

3. Multi players: Employer(land owners) &Subcontractors (acceptance terms, performance review or even the Construction contract management )

4. Law or Legal issues ( Liabilities)

5. Insurance and Properties Restoration

4. Sales presentations or Media coverage for Corporate overview

Typical Brinno construction cameras can be set up like the following:

(1) Install the Overlook cams at 4 corners of jobsite: Setting: time interval: 1 min, with Eye Fi card setup and DC IN, water proof case,Q’ty:4

(2) Portable or Specific target recording for ( grouting, piling,): time interval 1-2 sec, Battery powered.  Water proof case, q’ty: 4

(3) Portable Security cam: For any places. Trigger mode: PIR motion sensor added on (ATM 100), water proof cases (optional), Battery powered Qty: 4

 ATM100&TLC200

ATM 100 ( Motion sensor for TLC200)

The Key to successful Construction Management is DIY setup Construction camera

Why Construction management ?

–High turnover ( $$$)

–Industrial safety ( Safety is  No.1)

–Recovery and Insurance ( disaster recovery , property restoration, Insurance claims)

–Multi players (  owner/ employer/ subcontractors , employer, government, industrial safety committee)

–Rich Data  ( plan, templates, sheets, photos, videos)

There are plenty of construction project management systems or templates available. The paper sheets or electronic text data can be created, published and stored easily by current PC or Laptop. Photos were no longer a issue since the wide spread of the digital point-and-shoot cameras.

Videos are turning to be the real pains here. why ?

• Power supply. Let’s face it – digital cameras are infamous for draining battery life.  From snapshooters to professionals, everyone dreads that little flashing red light. Sometimes there is no stable power at jobsite and you are required to move these cameras around.
• Camera setup and frame. You need to hire the cameramen or outside company to do these. You workers with gloves on are your last choice.
• Video editing. This is the biggest nightmare. File transfer takes HOURS everyday. let alone those video editing and post processing.
• Video playback. It’s never ending story. Fast forward could be too slow(takes forever or too fast( miss your target). Once you find your target. The pause button may just “blur”the still image from the video(H.264 problems)
• Video storage : too fat to store unless subcontracting a cloud service

Video storage:10 years ago

Video storage: now:

It’s no difference. All FAT files and hard to store, share and manage.

Eco Friendly videos files

Quiz: How to reduce the trash in the planet?

It’s simple––Reduce the garage in the INPUT ! ( TLC from Discovery channel)

If you create the videos in the input. You are definitively suffering from the output and everything associated with

Anything other than Videos? Too big, fat and expensive to deal with? —— YES!   time lapse videos!

Brinno TLC 200  construction camera:

Brinno camera is powered by the proprietary “Instant video“,benefits are

• Once your video is shot, it’s actually a video and not a series of JPEGs. No stitching, no converting!
• No more Fat video files created in the input, File management(file storage, file sharing and playback) is nice and easy
• What you see is what you get:  No more H.264 compression “blur” on single frame
• Play LESS while playback with motion search on Brinno’s player, Saving playback time

Some people may insist that Video is inevitable in special occasions. That’s Correct for that 1% cases. Our experience shows almost all the events at jobsite can be just recorded at no faster than 1 photo per second.

You can also add on one the accessories of the Brinno TLC200 to make it from a fixed time interval time lapse camera to a Motion activated camera to handle different situations.

i.e.  anything with movement will be picked up by the motion sensor. This can be a good fit for surveillance camera which you’d like to move from place to place (Portable)

Bonus: Can I playback the “Instant video” instantly at the jobsite? Yes, go get the Brinno ABR100 Android phone SD card player.

Time lapse video is essentially the eco-friendly way in creating, publishing and managing your construction camera videos