Solutions · Heavy civil & infrastructure
You carry the corridor.
Thirty-four kilometres of alignment, a borrow pit, a batch plant and a fleet that bills by the hour. Ground Reality flies the corridor on a schedule, reconciles earthworks against the design surface every night, and tells you which spread is losing money while there is still a shift left to fix it.
Where it hurts
Three numbers that never agree.
On linear work the argument is always quantity: how much moved, who moved it, and what it should be paid. A corridor measured once a week is a corridor measured by memory.
Pain
The surveyor’s quantity, the grading foreman’s quantity and the pay quantity are three different numbers, and the month closes Friday.
Proof
Every flight builds a surface. Cut and fill are computed against design and against yesterday, corridor-wide, to a stated ±1.2 cm — so tonight’s quantity is the quantity you claim, and the delta report says exactly which stations moved.
CUT/FILL · ±1.2CM · STA 128+00AerialPain
One crew works an alignment thirty-four kilometres long. A survey party covers a fraction of it in a week.
Proof
Docked drones fly the corridor every six hours with no pilot on site, and ground robots walk culverts, tunnels and structures where a drone cannot. Coverage stops depending on who was available and starts depending on the schedule.
MISSIONS · EVERY 6H · 0 PILOTSAutonomyPain
Two scrapers idled at the wrong end of the job and nobody knew until the fuel bill arrived.
Proof
Equipment hours are matched to the volume actually moved, spread by spread. Utilization, haul cycles and standing time read against the earthworks the capture measured, so a fleet decision takes a morning instead of a month-end.
FLEET · UTIL 78% · HAUL 11.4 MINWorkforce
A day on the alignment
Four flights, one reconciliation.
The corridor is captured before the shift briefing and closed out after it. Between those two points nothing depends on a party being free to walk out and measure it.
04:30
First flight of four
The dock flies stations 90+00 to 190+00 before the shift briefing. The surface is processed and posted by 05:40.
Autonomy05:50
Quantities reconcile
Cut and fill against design and against yesterday, station by station, with the deltas worth moving a grader ranked first.
Aerial09:15
A structure is inspected
A ground robot walks the box culvert at station 141+50 and tags two honeycombed areas into the QA record.
Quality & Safety13:40
The haul plan changes
Standing time on spread 3 is up 18 minutes a cycle at the borrow pit. The assignment moves before the afternoon shift.
Workforce18:00
The claim closes the day
The progress claim carries the surfaces it was measured from, and the client’s surveyor checks against the same file.
Financials
Enterprise AI Brain
The corridor, reconciled overnight.
Earthworks, fleet telemetry, weather and the QA record sit on one corridor record, and GR Brain composes the instruments that read it. It cuts a surveyor’s view of the corridor each morning — what moved, what it cost to move, and what the next 72 hours will do to the subgrade — with every line opening to the surface, the ticket or the test it came from.
- EARTHWORKS01 / 03
Net movement yesterday was 41,800 m³ against a plan of 46,000. Stations 128+00 to 134+00 account for the whole shortfall.
SURFACE-0912 · HELD ±1.2CM - FLEET02 / 03
Spread 3 is running an 11.4 minute haul cycle against 9.2 planned. The lost time is at the borrow pit, not on the road.
TELEMETRY · 22 UNITS · 06:00 - RISK03 / 03
Forecast rain on Thursday puts subgrade at station 156+00 outside the compaction window. Two days of float remain.
MET +72H · QA-4471 · STA 156+00
Quantities are cut against the design surface, with the uncertainty stated.
Measured on the corridor
What the surface is worth.
34KM
Corridor held on one record
6H
Between autonomous flights
2–5%
Volumetric confidence interval, stated
100%
Quantities cut against the design surface