Artificial intelligence meets human intelligence in Gauteng’s drone project
The Gauteng department of infrastructure development has launched a programme using drones to monitor the progress of projects across the province.The initiative — launched in Etwatwa‚ Ekurhuleni‚ on Monday — uses drones in tandem with the nerve centre of the department‚ called Lutsinga Infrastructure House.It combines human intelligence‚ business intelligence and now also artificial intelligence to ensure that the entire value chain of project delivery is efficient and that projects are delivered in time‚ within cost and at the right quality."It is possible for the public sector to be efficient and to be productive in what we do and that is exactly what we are demonstrating today. One of the things that we have looked at is that globally infrastructure performance is lagging behind other industries. Therefore over the past two years we’ve been working hard to introduce efficiencies across the value chain of development‚" said infrastructure development MEC Jacob Mamabolo.Through th...
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