OpenSpace Launches AI For The Construction Industry, Leveraging 360 Degree Video Cameras To Gain Total Ground Truth

Hard Hat Mounted Consumer Cameras Actively Capture Hundreds of Thousands of Jobsite Videos Effortlessly; OpenSpace AI Stitches Visuals Together In Less Than A Day

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Jun 13, 2018, 08:30 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenSpace launches to the public today with an AI framework that gives builders and construction workers a photographic memory. Using OpenSpace, field workers can travel through time to look at the first week, month, or year of a project, as if they were there in-person all over again. OpenSpace gives construction industry workers the ability to move backward, and forward again, in time, creating a visual record far more powerful than memory or any written document.

360 degree camera mounted on a hard hat effortlessly captures ground truth

OpenSpace AI split screen feature compares a job site's ground truth by date.

How OpenSpace Works:
OpenSpace is compatible with commercially available consumer, 4K 360 degree cameras. Workers attach the camera to a standard hard hat, which allows workers to effortlessly record video of everything they see naturally, while walking a job site. The video is then uploaded and OpenSpace automatically stitches together hundreds of thousands of videos frames. The company's patented AI technology then creates a single record of ground truth. This fills accountability gaps, helps close RFI updates, promotes security inspections, and more.

Once a worker completes their walk through, OpenSpace charts their path around the job site and transfers that path directly onto their digital plans. When the video is uploaded, OpenSpace then enables the entire construction team to see a 360 degree photographic view of any point of interest.

"Office workers have had the ability to create, edit, share, and revisit their work for a long time, but that has never truly existed in the construction industry," said Jeevan Kalanithi, co-founder, OpenSpace. "That's because creating, storing, searching, localizing and indexing visual data, from the real world, has never really been possible until now. It's our mission to build great AI software that enables construction workers to do more."

About OpenSpace:
OpenSpace is an AI company transforming how construction workers capture, evaluate, and make decisions based on the ground truth of a jobsite. Open Space has secured funding from Lux Capital, Foundation Capital, the National Science Foundation, and others. OpenSpace was founded by Jeevan Kalanithi, Philip DeCamp, PhD, and Michael Fleischman, PhD, three former classmates at MIT and veteran startup founders and technology executives. OpenSpace is working with some of the largest construction companies in the world. Find out more at https://openspace.ai/

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