Construction is the hardest environment location technology gets asked to work in — and the one where knowing what is on site, who is on site and where the plant went is worth the most. It is also the clearest case for working indoors and outdoors as one system, because a building under construction is both at the same time.
Where the excavator, the generator, the laser level and the power tools actually are — across a site, between sites, and at the end of a phase when everything has to be accounted for.
Live headcount by contractor and by area, without a gate register that stops being accurate by ten in the morning.
The reason most sites start the conversation. An accurate roll call in an environment with no fixed walls, several hundred transient workers and a dozen subcontractors.
Geofenced no-go areas, lifting zones and plant-versus-pedestrian proximity alerting — the highest-consequence use case on any site.
What arrived, where it was put down, and whether it is still there. Materials that cannot be found get ordered twice.
Subcontractor hours evidenced by presence rather than by timesheet, and a factual record of which areas the work actually happened in.
1,200 workers, 5,000+ tagged assets, certification-checked turnstiles and fifteen solar-powered stations that moved twenty times — then moved on to the next site.
Every assumption a fixed-infrastructure design relies on is temporary on a construction site. Walls appear. Power moves. The building shields more of itself every week. Anyone who has only deployed in finished buildings will design something that stops working in month three.
Usually muster and plant tracking first — they justify the project on their own, and everything else follows the same infrastructure.