MY OMNISCIENT: optimised construction site management
Omniscient is a company that came out of Bouygues Construction’s intrapreneurship program specialising in digital construction site management tools
How do you get a continuous overview of the construction site without having to travel? This is what Omniscient offers! Using smart chips fitted to equipment, Omniscient gives site staff a real-time overview of progress, providing them with anonymised key data that can be accessed from an app. In addition to helping with management, the solution also geolocates various pieces of equipment on site, which can be found in one click, saving time and optimising how equipment is used. This constitutes a particularly crucial step forward for mobile construction sites, public works and network infrastructure projects, for which tracing equipment can result in unnecessary and costly rental of equipment, superfluous travel to equipment storage locations, costs relating to monitoring equipment and even difficulties in optimising equipment and managing capital expenditure.
“The IoT is a feedback loop that until now was absent from construction site management, allowing real-time monitoring, identifying sticking points and increasing efficiency”.
Nicolas Lemaire
co-founder of Omniscient
Further information
Almost 7,500 sensors installed on some twenty Bouygues Construction sites and agencies in France and Asia
A hundred or so are currently in place at two Axione agencies, making it easier to share equipment between teams and helping to optimise capital expenditure. Depending on how the site is configured, it is hoped this could save up to 20% of total working time.
Did you know?
Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Bouygues Construction’s R&D team worked hand in hand with the start-up Omniscient to help people comply with precautionary measures and slow the spread of the virus, ensuring that social distancing was respected. Equipped with smart badges, workers were alerted via the Omniscient app and asked to disperse if it was considered that there were too many people in any given area of the site.
A connected totem pole
New digital applications need a high-quality connection at all areas of construction sites. The connected totem pole can connect all sites to the network, even the most remote, such as tunnels or other areas without coverage. Using a geofencing function, the Totem can also locate people, equipment and materials.