Technology continues to drive rapid change across project and asset lifecycles.
On a tour of the Oracle Industry Lab in Deerfield, Illinois, as part of CRE.Converge 2022, attendees were able to explore some of the latest advances in autonomous equipment, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, machine learning, drones, and other developing technologies.
Oracle calls the lab—complete with a simulated worksite lined with chalky gravel—“a unique idea incubator designed to help businesses in a variety of industries tackle their most complex challenges.”
The lab, located just outside Chicago, completed construction in November 2020. Oracle also launched similar innovation labs in Reading, UK, and Sydney, Australia, this past summer.
Oracle Construction and Engineering’s Shirley Chen shared some staggering statistics at the start of the tour.
Similar to a venture capitalist, Oracle has a special program (which Chen jokingly called “Shark Tank Oracle”) allowing the company to evaluate and partner with startups that are developing new technologies. These partnerships allow the startups the visibility they’re looking for and provide Oracle another source of valuable data points that can be included and layered upon within their common data environment.
While at the lab, tour attendees had the opportunity to learn about—and in many cases, touch and try:
FARO technologies’ Kipp Ivey shared an anecdote that further brought some of the technology to life. Years ago, FARO used one of its LiDAR scanners to create a full 3D map of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. A video game developer wanted to use in the design for a game, “Assassin’s Creed.”
Years later in 2019, when the cathedral caught fire and sustained major structural damage, FARO donated its legacy 3D data of the cathedral so it could be utilized for the building’s reconstruction efforts.
This story initially appeared on NAIOP’s official blog site.
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