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Sivdio Imaging Sdn Bhd (Sivdio), one of Malaysia’s leading providers of state-of-the-art imaging and visual data acquisition technology, has recently launched its enhanced Remote Construction Monitoring (RCM) solution utilising OpticVyu technology, the world’s leading construction monitoring service provider. Sivdio’s enhanced RCM solution is designed to contribute to the digital transformation of the Malaysian construction and engineering sectors, in line with the National Construction Policy 2030 and National Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) Policy which are focused on the implementation of digital tools to improve productivity, competitiveness and sustainable construction practices in these sectors.

Sivdio’s RCM solution is a package of digital tools that provide construction companies, as well as businesses in the oil, gas, and petrochemical, power generation and power grid sectors, with a complete visual data collection and management system, that significantly improves decision-maker’s situational awareness, thereby enhancing efficiency and productivity.

Azhan Maidin, Managing Director at Sivdio, explained: “Our RCM solution facilitates the ongoing monitoring and recording of operational activities through the use of IP CCTV cameras. Historically, most construction and engineering sites have been passively monitored by CCTV, but our enhanced solution, utilising best-in-class software tools from OpticVyu, is able to capture and convert visual data and then seamlessly integrate this with a smart digital dashboard. These dashboards, which utilise both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and (Machine Learning) features, allow decision-makers to view (visualise) the captured data in a variety of ways, providing them with insights that will allow them to improve productivity, minimise delays, better manage supplies and monitor contractor progress.”

Azhan added, “According to the latest statistics from the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM), the value of construction work done in the third quarter of 2022 surged 23.2% compared to the corresponding quarter’s RM30.5 billion. While this is good news for the Malaysian construction industry, it is also evident that this growth has brought with it an array of challenges, such as labour shortages, inflationary pressures, rising costs of materials and increasing supply chain disruptions, among others. This, in turn, has contributed to many project delays. It is important, for the sake of its future competitiveness that the Malaysian construction industry does not simply resort to recruiting even more foreign labour to surmount these issues, but instead moves to higher productivity and value-added digital processes, creating more rewarding jobs for locals.”

Sivdio highlights a number of practical benefits of its RCM solution. These include the capability to more accurately (and regularly) monitor project progress, without the need for as many time-consuming onsite visits. Sivdio’s software solution can also be integrated with common project management software such as Procore, Autodesk BIM 360 and Autodesk Revit, allowing managers to validate scheduled events with visual data.

The RCM software also allows users to capture and synchronise their own images and videos (from various devices) with the ongoing data streams captured and stored from onsite video cameras. This allows engineers and managers (who may not always be onsite) to get a better idea of a particular challenge or issue. This capability is supported by excellent reporting tools that allow users to quickly and easily create detailed reports with multiple images selected from various IP CCTV cameras installed at a project site, again facilitating quicker solutions to problems that may historically have thrown projects off course for weeks.

The RCM software also enables authorised users to view reports on productivity utilising automated sensors and tools that can track a contractor’s activity, health and safety, monitoring for dangerous activity (such as employees not wearing hardhats) and theft prevention using cameras and movement detection systems that monitor supplies and support theft prevention.

“We want to encourage the use of visual data to provide a more organised planning and execution process during the pre-, during- and post-construction phases. This is aligned with the National Construction Policy 2030 and the National 4IR Policy. The ability to capture, store and then intelligently utilise visual data has gigantically increased over the past few years, alongside the ongoing growth of cloud computing, but not all Malaysian construction and engineering business have been able to keep up with these developments,” Azhan further elaborated. “That is why Sivdio, utilsing our vast experience and relationships in this sector, has partnered with OpticVyu to now deliver them as a package, which we hope will contribute to the ongoing endeavour to digitally transform Malaysia’s construction and engineering industries.”

Since 2013, Sivdio has applied its world-class solutions in over 40 projects, including with Tenaga Nasional Berhad, Cypark Resources Berhad and the Tun Razak Exchange. The Sivdio team has provided seamless solutions to help companies avoid delays, cost overruns and build errors that occur regularly in projects without an enhanced remote construction monitoring solution.

Sivdio works with worldwide technology experts to provide its clients with the finest quality solutions and services. Technology providers include DJI, ArcGIS, Agisoft, Canon, Nikon, Evercam, Enlaps, Scopito and many others.

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