Cities using artificial intelligence to monitor aging infrastructure

With over 600,000 bridges across the United States, nearly 8% of which are deemed structurally deficient, monitoring and maintaining our country's infrastructure is critical to ensuring the safety of American motorists. Dynamic Infrastructure, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup, is currently implementing an innovative artificial intelligence system that allows infrastructure operators to observe condition changes in real time. The system provides live, cloud-based, 3-dimensional images of the bridge or tunnel, while detecting and alerting the operators to any observed change before it results in a collapse. "The world faces an infrastructure crisis," said Saar Dickman, co-founder and CEO of Dynamic Infrastructure. "Specifically, deficient bridges and tunnels represent a severe infrastructure challenge in the U.S. and worldwide and their poor condition leads to life losses and millions in unplanned expenditures."