We have a focus on building physics, with the aim of reducing energy costs for occupiers, as well as reducing carbon emissions.

As such, we need to remove that network issue from IoT construction.In the case of LoRaWAN, private networks can be established, in addition to the public ones.

Lamont believes these private networks are where we’ll see real genesis and IoT technology emerging in construction.WiFi is full, however this would make millions of IP addresses available to us..This type of technology is currently being looked at with great interest by mining sites.

With just a single gateway, it’s possible to achieve five or ten kilometers of distance, picking up gate sensors and various pieces of important information.This might include things such as whether someone is walking in an area they shouldn’t be, or even checking to see whether a structure may have moved over a three- or six-month period.

This is the type of information that’s truly valuable onsite, and we should be interrogating it.

However, it’s important to keep in mind the temporary nature of construction sites.“What I'm finding now,” says Amy Marks, “is that they love industrialised construction, they want to understand certainty, so they're starting to dictate and decouple the process of construction and productising it.”.

We need to connect makers and designers, she says.We need to look across everything we’ve built and find the consistencies.

We can’t do it by hand, we need to use algorithms and machine learning.We need to decouple some of the process, which is done differently every time, to create certainty.. To illustrate her point, Marks raises the example of a generator, built consistently to a 250 horsepower capacity.