S Anantha Sayana, Chief Digital Officer, Larsen & Toubro, shares more on the company’s efforts to enhance productivity on its machines:“In terms of our machines, we have some 10,000+ of our assets lying largely at remote project sites hooked with telematics devices and sensors that stream data about hours of usage, geo location and fuel consumption to arm planners to evolve strategies to improve efficiencies. Further, BIM has opened a collaborative method of working for more efficient methods of designing, delivering and maintaining physical assets throughout the entire lifecycle. Geospatial technologies such as GPS/GNSS, LiDAR, photogrammetry, satellite remote sensing and the like have helped us acquire, manipulate, store, analyse and present data for superior project monitoring and execution. LiDAR makes surveys quick, accurate and economical and obviates rework. It came in extremely handy during the survey and construction of the Statue of Unity, the world’s tallest. LiDAR is being used with great success in many of our road projects like the Bar-Bilara-Jodhpur road project as well as smart city projects in Nagpur, the surveillance system in Mumbai and the CSITMS in Hyderabad. GIS-based Radar Elevation Data Processing is another geospatial technology that our Power Transmission & Distribution business has employed, most notably in transmission line projects in Kenya, Malaysia and Botswana. GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) is yet another geospatial technology that provides ‘x-ray vision’ to see what lies beneath the surface before starting work,which comes in handy for the pipe laying exercise for our water business vertical, while augmented and virtual reality are playing key roles in training of workmen for a real-life feel of situations.Digitalisation is playing a key role even in optimising labour, ensuring their safety and improving their productivity. We have introduced WISA (Workforce Induction & Skills Application) to manage both end-to-end processes and data of workmen from the time of induction through their entire journey in the organisation. We are now able to offer online assessments, make real-time analytics and thereby adopt a systematic approach to onboarding and managing our workforce. Fingerprinting, developing biometrics of workmen, yoking the power of Jan Dhan bank accounts and Aadhaar cards for identity are other steps we have taken in this sphere.We have developed ‘ViewEHS’, a significant digital safety solution that captures EHS data, compares it with baseline data and assigns key performance indicator scores to analyse the EHS performance of some 300 project sites in real time. Adopted across almost 300 of our water project sites, the improvement in our safety quotient has been significant.  In the realm of smart world solutions, we are managing the assets of CCTV implementation with web-based GIS, like for the Gujarat Intelligent Traffic Management System that integrates the Network Management System (NMS) and the Vehicle Tracking Management System (VTMS) with asset information from the cameras. All camera locations are mapped using GIS technology and the asset information pertaining to every camera is fed into the GIS system. By integrating the NMS with GIS systems, faulty cameras can be identified when displayed on GIS maps with geographic perspectives along with the details of the fault. Likewise, integration of VTMS with GIS will support the dispatching team to rectify faulty cameras and other assets by implementing routing analysis and Geo-fencing concepts.