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Quadcopters is the latest technology in construction industry

The talk of construction lately has been devices, which includes tablets, smartphones, and more. Now, there is another device flying-yes, flying-onto many construction jobsites, giving construction companies the opportunity to provide the owner with progress shots of the job. While some classify them as 'drones' there are others that prefer the term 'quadcopter.'

Richard Evans, IT Manager, SpawGlass, www.spawglass.com, San Antonio, Texas, has been interested in flying jet models as a hobby for years. As the technology continued to develop for these drones, Evans began to consider how it might benefit SpawGlass.

"I initially got interested when they started developing the auto pilot technology for them. I have been looking at it for quite a while and about a year ago I started buying parts and assembling and putting one together," he says. "Now, I have three of them. I found what was really interesting and fun for me was the video photography aspect and the still shots you can get."

 

One of the primary uses for these devices in the construction industry is from a marketing and customer relations aspect, providing the owners with progress photos and videos of a job in a lot more detail.

What does the device entail? Primarily, the drone is a camera mounted on a radio-controlled quadcopter, hexacopter, or octocopter, depending on the number of arms. The flying camera has a small board with auto pilot that includes a compass, GPS, an accelerometer, and a barometric altimeter. The miniaturization and mass production of the components incorporated into smartphones, including GPS, accelerometers, and more, is what has made robotic flying cameras for construction possible, according to Evans.

"It is using the GPS to lock into where it is at. If I just turned the radio off and it senses it lost its control link to me then what it will do is it will come back and land where it took off from and that is a very useful part of the technology," Evans adds.

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