KO-MAPPER Co., Ltd. (CEO Kim Dal-ju) announced that it will participate in CES 2024, which will be held in Las Vegas, USA from Tuesday, January 9th to January 12th (Friday, local time) next year.
KO-MAPPER is a company that operates ‘SAFETY ALWAYS’, an integrated solution that digitally transforms all processes when inspecting facility safety. The company explains that this solution provides autonomous flight functions specialized for inspection of various types of facilities, allowing anyone to collect high-precision and uniform drone data. The data collected in this way is automatically classified to optimize facility inspection and management work, and damage is automatically detected using AI technology.
Existing drone inspection software was designed for experienced professionals, making it difficult to master and utilize. In contrast, SAFETY ALWAYS’ strength is that it is designed so that anyone can quickly learn and use it through AI automation of the image processing and analysis process.
KO-MAPPER’s autonomous flying drone software can adjust its flight vertically, diagonally, and horizontally while considering the three-dimensional shape of the facility. Additionally, users can easily create flight paths based on real-time drone location or facility inspection records. The automatic classification function clusters images based on location information, and ‘automatic foldering’ is also unique in that it can automatically classify large quantities of images by facility component and work location, enabling convenient inspection and time series management. It is known that high-resolution images can be classified within 1 minute (10,000 images/minute) using a self-developed clustering algorithm.
A KoMapper official said, “KO-MAPPER deep learning-based algorithm automatically and quickly detects and analyzes damage information on facilities. The ability to adjust to actual size allows accurate analysis by converting damage information on facilities detected in the video to the actual size (in pixels and centimeters). In addition, our solution provides systematic reporting and ensures the compatibility required in the global facility inspection field, including support for various file formats such as DXF and XLSX,” he said. “Our platform can be applied to all types of structured and unstructured facilities.” “There is,” he explained.
As an effective tool for digital safety diagnosis of various facilities such as bridges, dams, ports, tunnels, and water purification plants, the KO-MAPPER solution has been technologically verified through numerous awards from Korean government agencies and participation in more than 30 public projects. In relation to this, an official said, “From the initial inspection of the construction site to the regular safety inspection of social infrastructure, the KO-MAPPER solution guides standardized procedures according to the purpose of safety inspection and provides the simplest solution. To support this, two international standard document contributions on AI-based digital safety inspection procedures (SG16-TD17/WP2, SG16-TD59/WP3) were adopted by ITU-T in August 2022, and international standardization is in progress.” He said.
Based on this, KO-MAPPER will use its solution in the infrastructure facility inspection project under the management of U.S. government agencies such as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the State Highway Safety Office, and will present an efficient facility management system through a pilot project. The goal is to sleep. In addition, we plan to first provide a trial version of the KO-MAPPER solution to companies currently carrying out inspection projects in the United States, such as drone inspection companies and engineering companies, to promote the effect of reducing professional manpower input, project period, and costs. We are also looking for drone manufacturing and service companies to localize customized solutions for the U.S. market and discover partnerships to jointly participate in government projects.
KO-MAPPER currently has signed business agreements with global companies including Japan, the United Arab Emirates, and the Philippines and is continuing to advance its technology through global data exchange. Through this, we are promoting the diversification of facility damage detection items and are developing functions to expand our business area as a digital twin spatial information platform by the third quarter of 2024. The AI-LAND solution, which features an integrated national information management platform such as illegal building detection, history management of vegetation change areas, and mineral resource management, is scheduled to be released next quarter. In addition, KO-MAPPER also announced that it plans to focus on market expansion through on-site verification in the global market, including participation in PoC and local safety inspection projects, starting in the first half of 2024.
An official said, “SAFETY ALWAYS aims to achieve zero safety accidents through complete digitalization of facility inspections. “Our autonomous drone inspections do not require the use of scaffolding, ladders, or cranes, even in complex areas that are difficult to access,” he said. “Concerns are being raised about increased safety risks due to aging infrastructure around the world, so the safety of society as a whole is rising.” As the need for more effective inspection is being emphasized, we would like to actively promote our solutions at this CES. “KO-MAPPER will realize preemptive safety prevention through time series analysis of facility maintenance history and reliable digital inspection,” he said.
Meanwhile, ‘CES’, the world’s largest IT exhibition hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is an exhibition where you can see the flow of innovative technologies around the world at a glance and is held every January in Las Vegas, USA. AVING News, which has covered CES for 18 consecutive years, has reported CES news around the world every year since 2006, and has been selected through ‘BEST OF CES’ and ‘BEST OF MADE IN KOREA’, which select the best innovative products, companies and technologies. has been in progress. In addition, CES on-site issues are vividly conveyed through ‘AVING LIVE’.
The CES 2024 Seoul Unified Hall will be operated at the largest scale in terms of exhibition area, number of participating companies, and number of participating supporters since Seoul City’s first participation in CES in 2020. The Seoul Integration Center, in which 13 organizations collaborate and participate, is an important step in Seoul’s efforts to make Seoul a mecca for startups, and 17 of the companies participating in the Seoul Integration Center proved this by receiving innovation awards. The participating institutions in the Seoul Unification Center are ▲SBA ▲Seoul Bio Hub ▲Campus Town ▲AI Yangjae Hub ▲Gwanak-gu ▲Yonsei University ▲Korea University ▲Chung-Ang University ▲Sogang University ▲Kookmin University ▲Hanyang University ▲Konkuk University ▲Kyunghee University. Not only the Seoul Metropolitan Government, institutions, and companies, but also supporters through industry-academia cooperation are matched 1:1 with companies, and 85 supporters, the largest number, will participate.
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