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IOT is Revolutionizing the Construction Sector

Matthew Marson, Sector Director for Manufacturing & Technology, Arcadis
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Digitalization can integrate people, processes, technology and performance across enterprises. But to maximize the investment in digitalization, an actionable framework is needed, which considers future trends impacting the industry. In this aspect, the industrial internet of things (IIoT) has drastically impacted industries ranging from healthcare to agriculture. The construction industry is no exception. There are numerous opportunities in the sector where companies can adopt IoT technology to support construction safety, efficiency, and sustainability — almost to the point of making the impossible possible. IIoT technology can improve productivity by ensuring more efficiency and readiness. It reduces the workload for people that not only eliminates human error occurrences but also gives management opportunities to work on generating new ideas to improve product delivery and customer satisfaction.


The Biggest Challenge: Workers With No Digital Skills


Workers today lack the digital skills that an individual with an engineering or an architect degree or somebody that’s deeply involved within manufacturing industry is expected to have, as they never really had to worry about IoT or other sorts of digital technologies before. All of a sudden, with the emergence of intelligent buildings, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and the introduction of IoT itself, a whole new bunch of hardware and software communications protocols have dominated the industry. In order to succeed in this rapidly transforming environment, it has now become imperative for workers to have robust digital problem-solving skills that equip them to learn a wide variety of technologies and navigate the continuing changes in the future. This is where consultation companies come into play, enabling clients to inculcate the required skills within their workforce and stay at the helm of the evolving trends.


Focusing On The Value Of Sales


The other big challenge that we are seeing is around the sales practices of the people selling point solutions to clients. For instance, they use industry or digital buzzwords to show glossy brochures or demos, and then in reality, you find that the things that were sold are still in their development pipeline, or perhaps didn’t quite deliver the results that were expected after they were purchased and implemented. It just stands to show that the promises of the sale versus the reality of the product are often worlds apart.


Five Stages Of Operational Workflow


Basically, consultation companies like ours usually set up a five-stage process to support clients through their challenges. So, the first stage is people first, where the companies pinpoint the right technology and meticulously research their use cases appropriate for the organisation from the user point of view. This is where consultation companies provide assurance to investors that they are going in right way and also using the chosen technologies in most efficient way to create a safe and respectful working environment where people can grow, perform, and succeed. 


The second step is the client success, which brings insights, agility, and innovation to co-create value matching specifications and requirements that are needed across both their hardware and software implementations. The third stage is the integrity, where the consultation companies advise their clients with the highest professional and ethical standards and establish trust by being open, honest, and responsible. The fourth stage is sustainability, which is about assigning the right cost manager and project manager with the necessary physical and digital skills to base their actions for clients and communities on environmental responsibility and social and economic advancement. Then finally, the last one is collaboration, where the consultation companies effectively value the power of diversity, global capabilities and deliver excellence on the promises of the strategy that started at the very beginning of the process.


Three Golden Rules For Securing Information


Connectivity comes in multiple varieties, and it is the most essential factor when communicating with the stakeholders. In terms of keeping connectivity secure, the consulting companies follow three golden rules. The first one is naming convention, having something that is around industry standard, consistent, and understandable. The second one is to use appropriate network definition rules; in particular the manufacturer usage description, which provides some of the metadata about the machine, and the types of information it sends out the ports. And then the third one is having software segregated networks that can set up their own channels so that there will not be any discordance between different networks.


This is where consultation companies play their role, enabling clients to incorporate the required skills and stay at the helm of the evolving trends


Guidance for Budding Entrepreneurs Integrity is a core value that guides to conduct business in an honest and responsible way. The kind of value building that the individual does is probably overlooked, and sometimes it feels just a bit of necessity. The business practices and operations of entrepreneurs ensure that they conduct business to the highest professional standards around the globe. Moreover, if they have the willingness to utilize data to its full potential, they can turn any construction project into an intelligent building or campus that delivers exceptional and sustainable outcomes to clients safely and consistently.


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