AECCafe Industry Predictions for 2020 – Part 1 

Happy New Year!

Every January AECCafe Voice publishes blogs of industry predictions from our readers. This year we have extended the deadline to January 14^th for entries.

Please send me your industry predictions for 2020 by January 14th for inclusion in a series of editorial articles to be published in January. Please keep your submission to 200-1,000 words, with author’s name, email address, photo and a short bio. Susan.smith@ibsystems.com

For starters, we have received predictions that suggest that topics such as BIM, artificial intelligence, edge computing, mixed reality, blockchain, autonomous vehicle development, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), and the growth of construction technology, may be important contributors to trending in the AEC industry in 2020.

Dr. Biplab Sarkar, CEO, Vectorworks

“Here are the top trends that I believe will play important roles in the AEC industry:

1. For design and/or BIM software solutions, Algorithms-Aided Design (AAD), big data and AI/ML tools will create new opportunities for the users by presenting new workflows.

1. Edge computing will become prevalent, e.g. for consumers adopting to smart spaces equipped with Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS) that deploy IoT systems.
2. Usage of AR/VR/MR (Mixed Reality) will provide AEC customers with immersive experiences to perceive the digital world. I foresee a day when all the physical structures on earth will have a corresponding digital representation in a central database that is accessible with easy-to-use apps and can be queried to interrogate the elements in a physical structure for relevant BIM information.
3. Software solutions will implement Blockchain to store records of transactions that are safe and secured.”

Vectorworks CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar.

Dr. Biplab Sarkar has been with Vectorworks since 2000. After first serving as a manager of geometry and rendering, he was the chief technology officer from 2008 to 2016. With 30+ years of experience developing CAD software, he was promoted to CEO in April 2016. As CEO, Biplab provides strategic leadership to the company by establishing and meeting company sales, growth and market share objectives. He continually seeks out technology innovations and evaluates the competitive landscape to ensure Vectorworks software remains a best-in-class CAD and BIM solution for designers in the architecture, landscape and entertainment industries. Biplab earned a Ph.D. in CAD and an M.S. in mechanical engineering at The Ohio State University. He also holds a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Tal Meirzon – Datumate CEO

“2020 will be all about process automation. As CEO of Datumate, developers of a construction data analytics platform serving the infrastructure construction industry, I am excited to see the eco-system of Construction Tech constantly growing. There are great companies out there excelling in digitally transforming the construction industry and delivering solutions, including BIM, photogrammetry, scanning and UAV solutions, answering the needs of their customers.

While construction companies, from developers to general contractors and sub-contractors, are ready and in many cases eager to leverage digital solutions for gaining a competitive advantage and improving planning, execution, transparency and collaboration, there clearly are remaining adoption barriers. The most often cited barrier is the claim, that those systems are difficult to use, need to be operated by skilled workers only, which – as we all know – are hard to find on any labor market.

That is why I foresee end-to-end process automation as THE trend in 2020. Automation of workflows and processes can definitely increase user-friendliness and boost the adoption of Construction Tech solutions for existing, reoccurring use cases. In addition, automation should also be understood as a technological advancement, as it will speed up reports, insight, maps and any other kind of documentation these systems may generate.

Use cases that previously needed tweaking of software and asked for workarounds, will be answered by out-of-the box, automated workflows and scenarios. For this, Construction Tech companies will seize AI, machine-learning, IoT, computer vision and optical object recognition even further.

But and it cannot be emphasized enough, it has to be automation done right. One that doesn’t compromise data integrity, one that doesn’t abandon accuracy for the sake of simplicity.”

Tal Meirzon, CEO of Datumate Construction Data Analytics

Bio: Tal Meirzon, CEO of Datumate, has vast experience in leading global, growth-stage startups as well as mature, privately or publicly owned high-tech companies. A strategic leader, Tal built a dedicated team of construction, civil engineering, geo-information and high-tech professionals driving Datumate’s positioning as Infrastructure Construction Tech innovators. www.datumate.com

Eric Bassier, Senior Director, Product Marketing, at Quantum

“Autonomous vehicle development will become increasingly human-centric, as OEMs and their technology partners strive to closely align assisted and autonomous driving technology to human behavior: In order to develop systems that adapt to the characteristics of individual drivers or riders, immense amounts of behavioral data must be captured and analyzed, including bio-metric, in addition to external sensor and vehicle control system data. This means the need for cost-effective data storage performance and scalability will continue to skyrocket.

Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) Will See Increased Adoption in Video Surveillance:  IHS predicts worldwide surveillance storage revenue will grow from $3.4 billion in 2019 to $4.2 billion in 2020. Growth is driven by increased demand for better security, smart city and public safety initiatives (public sector), and the desire for business intelligence.  Legacy systems require individual components to address compute, storage and networking while HCI for video surveillance integrates all three into a single platform, delivering easier to install and manage appliances that do not require that security professionals rely on specialized IT assistance.  Moreover, HCI appliances enable storage to scale so that when environments grow, the platform can grow too—a challenge amplified by increases in camera counts, camera resolutions, and video retention times. Hyper-converged infrastructure provides a solid underlying platform to deploy new capabilities, both today and tomorrow.  

Video and Images Represent Biggest Data Generator for Most Enterprises:  Between surveillance footage, video for marketing and training purposes across all industries, and the use of high-res image and video content generated by machines in use cases as diverse as movie and TV production, autonomous vehicle design, manufacturing, healthcare – we believe video and high-res image content will represent biggest ‘class’ of data for most enterprises.

NVMe Will Erode Traditional SAS SSD Array Market Faster Than Originally Predicted:  With the performance advantages of NVMe, and by leveraging new networking technologies like RDMA, we believe NVMe will erode the market for traditional SSD storage much faster than predicted.  In markets such as media and entertainment where higher resolution content combined with higher frame rates, more bits per pixel and more cameras per project are putting pressure on storage architectures, NVMe should prove particularly appealing.

The Tape Storage Market will Grow, Reversing a Decade-Long Declining Trend:   Tape has emerged as a key technology for massive scale cold storage infrastructure – both in the cloud and on-premise. And we believe the architectures used in the cloud will eventually make their way back into the enterprise.  So we believe the tape market will grow, and continue to grow over the next 5-10 years, based on a new use case for tape as cold storage for (primarily) video and high res image data.”

Eric Bassier, Senior Director, Product Marketing, at Quantum

Email: quantum@rlyl.com

Website: https://www.quantum.com/

Bio:

Eric Bassier leads product and technical marketing at Quantum. Eric and his team are responsible for driving Quantum’s product and go-to-market strategy globally. Eric has over 18 years of experience designing, managing, and marketing enterprise storage products, and his writing has appeared in Wired, Business Solutions, Data Center Post, Data Center Knowledge, and more.

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