DAQRI and Topcon Collaborate to Improve AEC Job Site Safety
Building job sites can be very dangerous. Projects or products that lower risk to workers get the attention of managers. When those who offer Augmented Reality solutions can reliably demonstrate that the technology raises awareness of those on a job site to potential risk so that danger can be reduced, AR will be taken more seriously. Creating solutions that reduce more risk than they introduce is not easy.
Collaboration will go further and produce customer-ready products than direct competition among vendors that only master some of the components of the final system.
Partnerships of the type described in the announcement issued by Topcon Positioning Group bring expertise in different domains to bear on the common challenges. In this partnership DAQRI is bringing its helmet technology and 4D Studio to bear on the presentation of informational messages. The systems the two companies plan to offer to AEC industry customers will leverage Topcon’s deep understanding of its industries (including construction, agriculture, forestry, mining and utilities) and effectiveness of GPS products and services.
More partnerships of this nature, between technology providers and solution providers in AEC or in other industries, could be very valuable to accelerating enterprise AR adoption.