Those at the ArcelorMittal stand just next door are taken aback. Jean-Yves Marié "puts on" a white device around his neck. Thanks to the third scanner purchased from the German company NavVis, the CEO of BIM-Y no longer has to drag a trolley to scan a building. Two Lidars and four cameras take the images.
A few moments later, an artificial intelligence will take care of "processing" the objects on these images. How many lamps are in the room, what is the composition of the beams, the panels, all the elements on the floor, in the partitions, in the walls or in the doors.
As he promised, and despite the pandemic, the construction contractor has already scanned a million square kilometres, including CBL and the European Parliament, but also Vinci, Veolia and the SNCF, and more recently Siemens, CFL, Gerflor and the Court of Justice of the European Union.
When its clients have their technical data sheets in order, BIM-Y scans them, for the moment manually, but within a year automatically. In the end, the clients have access to a dashboard, with which they have a complete and 3D vision of their infrastructures, with all the elements classified by room or by category, in order to improve the management of the buildings or just their maintenance.
Target: USA 2023
"We are also involved in a European initiative," explains Marié, "which aims to enable certain building components to be put back on a secondary market or to improve recycling in this sector," a major issue in the European Union.
The pandemic complicated the deployment of Luxembourg's technology, "because during the lockdown period, we could not have access to the premises, except between the two periods. But now we are back on track.”
This rhythm also requires finding new capital. After Luxembourg, France and Belgium, the Luxembourg start-up will take on the Belgian market at the end of the year and the UK market next year. In 2022, version 2.0 of the software with automatic data extraction will be released. And Marié is already dreaming of 2023. The United States is his new playground.
This article in Paperjam. It has been translated and edited for Delano.