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McConnell Dowell chooses
Orange Business Services to
deliver smart IoT solution
McConnell Dowell, a leading infrastructure construction
company that operates across Australia, New Zealand and
Asia, has selected Orange Business Services to design a
customized IoT solution.
McConnell Dowell, a leading
infrastructure construction
company, has selected Orange
Business Services to design a customized,
smart and scalable IoT solution. It will
enable construction sites to collect and
report on real time information, such as
heavy machinery utilization and asset
tracking, to enable smarter decision making
for operational efficiency, time saving and
cost reductions.
McConnell Dowell has over 3,500
employees and professional engineering
and construction teams in Australia, New
Zealand and Asia. The construction industry
faces significant business and technology
challenges. These include equipment
and skilled labor shortages, increasingly
short project schedules and rising costs
of infrastructure delivery. IoT will allow
construction sites to leverage real time data
feeds to tackle these issues head on.
With the Orange IoT platform, McConnell
Dowell can now access multiple devices
and sensors collecting environmental
data and measure asset utilization spread
across construction sites to harvest data.
This is then sent across a LoRa low-power
wide-area network (LPWAN) to the
company for analysis, correlating with
other environmental data. Via real time
dashboards, McConnell Dowell can collect
telemetry data such as machine movements
and track assets on-site, allowing project
teams to assess efficiency of machine use
and report on individual asset utilization.
McConnell Dowell can also track material
such as concrete panels from the
manufacturer through transportation and
installation. On site it can then identify each
individual panel and take smart decisions,
avoiding incorrect placement, rework and
project delays. More use cases, business
applications and new construction site rollouts
are planned across the business.
“Infrastructure delivery costs are rising
by 8% per annum. Efficient project
management directly impacts our business
performance. We are focused on embedding
technology in our processes and Orange
Business Services proved to be an ideal
innovation partner. We are now working
jointly to develop solutions that can be used
at various project locations for different use
cases. Together, we are future-proofing our
business through agile, scalable and smart
solutions that streamline business insights,”
said Rhys Craigie, Alliance Systems Manager,
McConnell Dowell.
“We take pride in working with organizations
which lead their industry in driving Digital
Transformation and continuous innovation.
McConnell Dowell is revolutionizing the way
infrastructure construction projects have
been managed over the decades. We look
forward to co-innovating with them to drive
robust IoT-enabled ecosystems for large scale
projects that touch millions of lives globally,”
said Kevin Griffen, Managing Director,
Australasia, Orange Business Services. •
Co-innovation led Orange and McConnell
Dowell to co-create use case applications
from innovation and ideation to platform
deployment. Orange created a flexible,
scalable IoT platform to collect, report
and visualize real time information over a
private IoT network, focusing on digitizing
manual and paper-centric processes
and removing manual tasks from the
construction site. Prior to this smart
approach, McConnell Dowell could only
access reports that were manually collated
from physically captured data, which was
both time consuming and inconsistent.
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