Skyscraper being built using artificial intelligence.

A new tech startup, indus.ai, has created a system to solve the age-old problem of coordinating workers and conveying information on job sites to general contractors. The San Francisco-based firm uses artificial intelligence and cameras to track construction activity in real time, and it has a platform that allows owners and contractors to check in on progress.

Project managers can mount cameras on cranes and poles throughout the construction site. The 24-hour video footage is fed into a neural network–a series of algorithms programmed to "learn" like the human brain–that was trained by more than a million construction images and videos to track work patterns, the arrival of materials and how often certain kinds of equipment get used. The firm recently raised $3.7 million in seed financing in a round led by Pierre Omidyar’s venture capital firm UP2398 http://www.up2398.com/up2398/.

By Rebecca Baird-Remba

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