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Suffolk County, NY, and Dynamic Infrastructure to Maintain Dozens of Bridges Through AI Edited by Dynamic Infrastructure New York, USA
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Dynamic Infrastructure is deploying its unique maintenance technology solution to assess the “health” of 74 bridges in the Long Island county.
T
he New York, Berlin and Tel Aviv based start-up Dynamic
in the U.S. as well as in Germany, Switzerland, Greece, and Israel with
Infrastructure is expanding its pilot project with the Public Works
private and public transportation bodies. The company’s clients operate
Department of New York’s Suffolk County using the world’s first deep-
a total of 30,000 assets, ranging from national, state, regional and
learning solution which allows bridge and tunnel owners and operators
municipal departments of transportation to Public-Private Partnerships
to obtain visual diagnosis of assets they manage in order to reduce
(PPPs) and private companies.
direct and indirect maintenance costs. After the successful completion
“The latest project expansion aims to use our technology to cover the
of a pilot involving one bridge, the parties have agreed to expand the
entire inventory by Q2 2021,” said Saar Dickman, Co-founder, and CEO
use of the AI-based technology to 74 bridges in the county located
of Dynamic Infrastructure. He added that Suffolk County is typical of
on the eastern end of Long Island. Deployment of the technology is
the situation in the US at large, where data from the Federal Highway
currently in process.
Administration deemed that approximately 30% of all bridges in the US were in fair or poor condition.
The Dynamic Infrastructure’s project
According to the American Society of Civil Engineers, which evaluates
Dynamic Infrastructure is currently conducting projects in other states
and publishes a report card on the U.S. infrastructure every four years,
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