"Selling IoT to the construction industry especially requires rolling the sleeves up. This report details that having an open approach to IoT, engaging an ecosystem, playing a role of technology advisor and integrator is critical for the success of a provider, like Orange, selling IoT solutions that deliver outcomes, scale, and repeatability. A solution for steel fabrication today should be adapted to overhead gantries and panel tracking tomorrow with minimal adjustments.

"GlobalData interviewed McConnell Dowell, a major construction entity, to discuss its IoT strategy. This report discusses the challenges in the construction industry where each site and every build have its own requirements in terms of planning, resourcing, materials, and compliance. Therefore, controlling cost and driving new efficiencies is critical. As the sector transforms, IoT platforms such as Orange’s ‘Connected Sites’ helps to solve for tomorrow’s challenges (increasingly through data) as much as enabling a use case work today.

"In the future, we foresee IoT will be playing an important role in supporting areas such as Contactless Processes to improve health and safety, compliance with social distancing and overall improvements in business continuity. IoT platforms will continue to play an important role for digitizing manual tasks, improving environmental monitoring, asset management, and supply chain tracking."
Dustin Kehoe, GlobalData Asia/Pacific