‘Work smarter, not harder’ aren’t just words to live by for Western engineering professor Ayan Sadhu.
For Sadhu, Canada Research Chair in Smart and Sustainable Civil Infrastructure, it’s how cities like New York, Singapore and Seoul grew to become global hubs for economic, cultural and political excellence and how smaller centres like London, Ont. can continue to advance.
Sadhu and a team of engineers and computer scientists have developed technologies to assess damage and degradation of existing infrastructure in cities, which can ultimately influence key decisions on maintenance, rehabilitation or even demolition. Driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these ‘data-to-decision’ tools include aerial and underwater drones, augmented reality glasses, lidars and high-speed cameras.
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