inspecting by skype
inspecting by skype
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How do people feel about using Skype and web cam for site inspection on structural concrete pre pour inspections? For example say footing and slab or piers?
I find it a bit unnerving relying on someone to point in the right direction and show the correct stuff however it could save a lot of time for deep bush inspections. I am also concerned that maybe the big picture will get lost, with large problems slipping into the gaps.
I find it a bit unnerving relying on someone to point in the right direction and show the correct stuff however it could save a lot of time for deep bush inspections. I am also concerned that maybe the big picture will get lost, with large problems slipping into the gaps.
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A lot depends on how much confidence you do and can have in the person pointing the camera and doing the talking, AND on the quality of the camera and the skill of the photographer.
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Pat is right about the quality. If you use a good quality camera and the person using it has some videography capability, then it can be very useful, particularly in "real time" when you have direct contact with the on-site guy. An attorney friend of mine has been trying to push us in that direction for a couple of years. Maybe he's just looking to represent the other side!!
One caution to your videographer...if he thinks he's moving the camera too slow, have him slow it down a bit more!
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All the simulation (or inspection by proxy/Skype, etc.) in the world is worthless without validation that your simulation correlates with real-world conditions.
Maybe try to do an inspection via Skype which is then followed by an onsite inspection? You'd probably learn where the pitfalls are. This isn't my area of expertise, but I'd be worried about the little things getting missed, not the big ones as you suggested.
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Also, I would think it should be more using the video to document, not perform the inspection.
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If it was something I felt I should look at in the first place, I would not do it by video.
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I believe the issue driving the question is the isolation of some sites in the Aussie outback and consequential travel time, cost and sometimes discomfort.
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I can think of at least 3 or 4 locations where we have facilities that don't have NextG comms or anything else with suitable bandwidth to allow for such technology to be used.
Some places have that option, a lot don't, and given the fact that the locations that are most likely to benefit from such techniques are the same ones that don't have good communications, its a difficult issue. I don't see it being solved completely in the short term either.
Grainy low resolution images that may be able to be supported by a dial up connection are probably not good enough to be the basis of an inspection anyway.