Critical infrastructure faces a dual crisis: a massive portfolio of aging structures is colliding with outdated inspection methods. The hands-on methods of ensuring structural safety are being stretched to their breaking point. This is a challenge that can no longer be met with more hands and bucket trucks, but with greater intelligence.
For decades, inspections have relied on slow, expensive, and often dangerous manual assessments. The result is fragmented data—isolated photos and brief notes that make it incredibly difficult to pinpoint a defect’s exact location on a massive structure, or track its deterioration over time. This subjectivity and lack of a single source of truth create unacceptable risks and inefficiencies.
ConeLabs is tackling this challenge head-on. Its web-based platform is built to be the central nervous system for infrastructure intelligence. The company transforms thousands of high-resolution images—captured by any device, from drones to GoPros to phones—into precise, interactive 3D models of an asset.
The company’s AI-inspection platform then gets to work, automatically analyzing this visual data to detect, classify, and map defects like cracks, spalling, and corrosion with near real-time speed and accuracy. Crucially, the platform plots every finding onto the 3D model, giving teams a single, reliable view of the asset’s condition. This allows teams and asset managers to virtually walk the site, filter for specific issues, and collaborate in real-time from anywhere in the world.
This technology is not about replacing engineers; it is about augmenting their expertise. By automating the tedious and time-consuming work of data collection and visual defect detection, ConeLabs empowers them to focus on what matters most: making critical decisions. It turns subjective guesswork into objective, actionable data, enabling a fundamental shift from a reactive “fix-it-when-it-breaks” model to a proactive, predictive one.
Rooted in Kitchener-Waterloo’s world-class tech ecosystem, ConeLabs is building a global solution for a global problem. The company delivers the intelligence its partners in construction, engineering, and asset management need to build and maintain a safer, more resilient world.
