From Pixels to Progress: Bedrock Keeps Construction on Track

Mega-projects demand unbroken visibility

Construction

On a billion-dollar build, it’s not just tower cranes that soar, schedule risk, change-order exposure, and insurance premiums climb as well. Whether you’re an executive managing a global project portfolio, a developer battling schedule drift, or a safety lead bracing for the next OSHA inspection, one truth holds steady: you need eyes on every jobsite, every day.

Traditional check-ins like weekly drone flights, photo logs, and spot audits offer value, but they provide an incomplete narrative that’s often outdated the moment it’s compiled. Meanwhile, lenders, public agencies, and ESG-conscious investors insist on hard evidence of progress, compliance, and environmental stewardship. In an era of fragile supply chains and limited skilled staffing, project teams simply can’t afford to wait weeks, or even days, to discover a delay, theft, or erosion event.

At Bedrock, we've built a real-time monitoring solution that does the heavy lifting, keeping analysts focused on mission-relevant activity and decision makers ahead of the curve.

The multi-modal edge

Bedrock fuses diverse sensor streams (optical, radar, thermal, RF, hyperspectral, and open-source) to keep construction moving and provide valuable insights.

Unlike most pixel-level monitoring services, we focus on fusing multiple data together in order to create a seamless force multiplier that provides intelligence into how and how significantly change has occurred. In other words, our solution focuses teams on areas of mission-relevant change, and offers rich, predictive insights in ways that single-data offerings can’t.

Other monitoring services are often limited to one or two types of data inputs, which can cause interruptions from clouds and darkness, or expose spectral blind spots.

Multi-Modal
Data Type What It Reveals Blind Spots (when used in isolation)
High‑res optical Crane lifts, deck pours, façade progress Clouds, darkness
LiDAR / point cloud Precise grade, stockpile volumes, vertical tolerances Costly to collect frequently
SAR (radar) Surface movement and settlement through clouds or at night Limited structural detail
Thermal / IR Hot spots signaling equipment fires, asphalt curing, or unpermitted night work Day‑time reflectance noise
Public & permit data (city portals, DOT feeds, NOAA weather) Inspection schedules, weather delays, traffic lane closures Offers no visual confirmation alone
Drone orthomosaics & field photos Sub‑centimeter detail for punch‑list items Small footprint, inconsistent cadence

High‑res optical

Reveals
Crane lifts, deck pours, façade progress
Blind Spots (solo)
Clouds, darkness

LiDAR / point cloud

Reveals
Precise grade, stockpile volumes, vertical tolerances
Blind Spots (solo)
Costly to collect frequently

SAR (radar)

Reveals
Surface movement and settlement through clouds or at night
Blind Spots (solo)
Limited structural detail

Thermal / IR

Reveals
Hot spots signaling equipment fires, asphalt curing, or unpermitted night work
Blind Spots (solo)
Day‑time reflectance noise

Public & permit data

Examples
City portals, DOT feeds, NOAA weather
Reveals
Inspection schedules, weather delays, traffic lane closures
Blind Spots (solo)
Offers no visual confirmation alone

Drone orthomosaics & field photos

Reveals
Sub‑centimeter detail for punch‑list items
Blind Spots (solo)
Small footprint, inconsistent cadence
You no longer need five dashboards and a data science team to stitch the story together; we do it for you.

Bedrock removes blind spots by ingesting them all, plus equipment-telematics, building information modeling layers, and your own IoT sensor feeds, into a single data fusion engine. Fewer false positives and richer predictive insights to keep schedule, safety, and spend on target.

From reactionary to anticipatory

On a mega-project, speed and accuracy make the difference between cruising toward a project’s successful completion and hemorrhaging change orders. Bedrock’s monitoring solution hinges on a data fusion engine with two AI pistons, anomaly detection and semantic annotation, that surface critical events faster than any field walk and explain exactly why they matter to schedule, safety, and compliance.

  1. Anomaly detection: Real-time data inputs are compared against both a last-known-good baseline and long-term-average baseline to distinguish expected changes from normal, attention-worthy ones. With this understanding, it instantly flags earthwork cuts, footing pours, steel erection, paving, or lane shifts, spotlighting issues long before your next pay-app review.

  2. Semantic annotation: Using small-sample learning, Bedrock trains computer-vision models on the events you rarely see but absolutely must catch and understand: disappearing rebar bundles, missing safety fencing, un-permitted lay-down yards, night-time thermal hot spots that hint at vandalism, or subtle settlement around fresh utility trenches.

Working together, anomaly detection shows where the site has shifted, while semantic annotation drills into what changed and how it impacts your critical path, QA/QC benchmarks, or OSHA obligations.

The Bedrock model builds a deep understanding of each scene and deciphers between expected change outlined in job plans and abnormal change like theft and schedule shift. Images show progress of the NEOM project in Saudi Arabia between 2016 to 2024.

Your trusted 24/7 operational partner

Bedrock’s multi-sensor fusion cuts detection latency from days to mere hours, spotting issues before they snowball, while delivering 100% coverage across every job site, from downtown high-rise cores to remote bridge corridors, without extra boots or helicopter hours. Here’s how our monitoring solution keep large-scale construction on time, on budget, and in compliance:

Operational Challenge Bedrock Insight Impact
Earthwork & grading Anomaly detection flags when rough‑grade hits design contours; volume analytics track stockpiles Mass‑haul stays synchronized, eliminating rework and idle equipment
Structural milestones Identifies first‑steel, topping‑out, deck pours, and roof membranes within hours Validates pay apps, accelerates trade hand‑offs, protects float
Linear infrastructure progress Quantifies lane additions, ballast placement, and deck pours along hundreds of miles Gives DOTs and lenders objective drawdown evidence, trims survey costs
Theft & vandalism Anomaly recognition spots shrinking rebar bundles, missing equipment, and night‑time thermal hotspots Cuts material loss, lowers insurance premiums, reduces project downtime
Safety & environmental compliance Detects missing silt fence, sediment runoff, and encroachment on protected areas Avoids fines, preserves ESG scores, supplies audit‑ready documentation

Earthwork & grading

Bedrock Insight
Anomaly detection flags when rough‑grade hits design contours; volume analytics track stockpiles
Impact
Mass‑haul stays synchronized, eliminating rework and idle equipment

Structural milestones

Bedrock Insight
Identifies first‑steel, topping‑out, deck pours, and roof membranes within hours
Impact
Validates pay apps, accelerates trade hand‑offs, protects float

Linear infrastructure progress

Bedrock Insight
Quantifies lane additions, ballast placement, and deck pours along hundreds of miles
Impact
Gives DOTs and lenders objective drawdown evidence, trims survey costs

Theft & vandalism

Bedrock Insight
Anomaly recognition spots shrinking rebar bundles, missing equipment, and night‑time thermal hotspots
Impact
Cuts material loss, lowers insurance premiums, reduces project downtime

Safety & environmental compliance

Bedrock Insight
Detects missing silt fence, sediment runoff, and encroachment on protected areas
Impact
Avoids fines, preserves ESG scores, supplies audit‑ready documentation

Partnering with Bedrock means relying on a monitoring solution engineered for absolute dependability. Our cloud-native architecture delivers 99.9% uptime, multi-region redundancy, and end-to-end encryption that shields proprietary project data. Every alert is cross-checked by multiple sensors and a human-in-the-loop QA process, so owners, GCs, and regulators can act on signals—not noise.

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