Drone Program Utilized on Golden 1 Center Construction Wins Innovation Award

Sacramento, Calif. – Today, the Sacramento Kings announced that a visual data analytics tool utilizing drones capturing high-resolution video and photos, piloted at the Golden 1 Center construction site, earned an award for innovation from the Turner Construction Company. This is the fourth year that Turner has highlighted outstanding innovations and achievements.

A team from University of Illinois, funded by a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) grant, developed a predictive visual data analytics tools to automate and streamline today’s time-consuming practices for construction progress monitoring. Turner implemented the technology as a pilot program…