When Devesh Bharadwaj founded Pani Energy—which uses artificial intelligence to increase water treatment facilities’ efficiency—he didn’t expect the company to scale and grow as quickly as it has.
“It reduces the cost and greenhouse gases and water savings by up to 20 per cent for different facilities.” “For us, AI is a natural evolution of what we do. But this current phase that we’re in is particularly exciting because of this combination of full, really broad data access, and the ability to actually very rapidly analyze it,” said Shoemaker.
AI tools can also help increase project efficiency and bridge the current and upcoming skilled labour gap afflicted B.C.’s construction industry, said Mariam Abdulameer, inspection services manager of RAM Consulting. Similarly, Tetra Tech has launched RailAI, which is “a physical representation of an AI model that’s on the wheels” to travel all over North America and collect data from railway networks every hour of every day.