Across today’s infrastructure and construction sectors, digital integration is reshaping how projects are designed, managed, and delivered. This session highlights innovative applications that fuse BIM, GIS, and emerging geospatial technologies to enhance precision, automation, and decision-making throughout the construction lifecycle. Presenters will share real-world examples of smart systems and data-driven workflows—from AI-powered earthworks and intelligent blasting platforms to RFID-enabled asset tracking and virtual design coordination. Attendees will learn how technologies like UAV photogrammetry, GNSS, AI, and 3D visualization are bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds, creating connected, efficient, and transparent construction environments.
The following presentations will be shared in this session:
Connecting Assets to GIS with RFID: Bringing Real-World Infrastructure Into Focus
Presented by Mike Klonsinski, Berntsen International, and Brooke Wagemann, InfraMarker by Berntsen
Asset management challenges vary widely, from tracking garbage bins and water utilities to managing dinosaur excavation artifacts and election infrastructure. Yet across these very different domains, the need is the same: clean, reliable, location accurate data that connects field assets to a single system of truth. This presentation demonstrates how RFID + GIS workflow brings order, traceability, and accountability to assets that are mobile, buried, temporary, or constantly changing.
We will explore how cities streamline solid waste operations with RFID enabled carts, how water utilities improve maintenance and reduce dig risks, how scientific teams use the system to catalog and track fossil discoveries, and how counties strengthen transparency and chain of custody for election equipment. Attendees will learn how a consistent RFID + GIS model replaces spreadsheets, reduces manual errors, and creates real time visibility across any asset type, no matter how unusual.
RFID + GIS shows that when data quality improves, everything else follows. From garbage to groundwater to geological discoveries, better asset tracking leads to smarter decisions, safer operations, and more trusted public services.
From Dirt to Data to Decisions: The AI Triple Play in Connected Earthworks
Presented by James Kenney, Strayos
The future of earthworks isn’t just about better data—it’s about connected intelligence. This presentation reveals how AI transforms raw geospatial earthworks data into actionable decisions while unifying systems, sensors, and workflows that traditionally operate in isolation. We’ll explore the journey from pixel to prediction and demonstrate how modern AI platforms unlock greater value by speaking the language of an entire operation. Attendees will see how open architectures enable drill rigs to talk to drones, blast designs to inform excavators, and fragmentation analysis to optimize crushers—all through intelligent data fusion.
Drawing on real-world examples from construction and mining operations, the session will illustrate how AI creates a common intelligence layer across diverse equipment and software, why closed systems limit operational insight, and how combining geospatial data with logs, telemetry, and IoT sensors dramatically elevates decision-making. It will highlight the key integration points that generate exponential gains and offer a practical roadmap for organizations looking to break down data silos and move toward fully intelligent earthworks operations where every system contributes to—and benefits from—shared operational intelligence.
