Bridge Inspections

From Bentley - - InspectTech Collector Mobile iPad App.  The future of engineering is about information.  The key is being able to access it, manipulate it, learn from it, and improve our lives with it.  Hopefully the key also become one of collaboration rather than just information - - where networking, sharing, organizing, and reaching out to one another drives the organizational culture and the need for an informed and engaged citizenry.

Look for more of these types of tools to play a huge role in effective and efficient asset management.  Mobile application on an iPad platform for inspecting assets like bridge, rail, transit, and road transportation infrastructure assets.  Mapping, capture photos, create reports, and interactive mapping/GPS coordinates - - in the age of the iCitizen, it will be interesting to see how diffused information like this becomes (i.e., critical infrastructure and guarded or more open sourced?).   Will the megaplayers of asset management of old age be challenged by the new microplayers that could be better at sharing information and providing meaningful insight?  Where the Smart City of 2030 is really one that has greater connectivity and more transparency regarding our public infrastructure.