Today, Mach9 is selling the Digital Surveyor software to engineering consultants, public and private infrastructure owners, and operators to help them turn this data into insights: to identify every utility pole within a utility company’s massive network, for example. In many instances, it takes a person two to four days per map mile to identify all the features; with Digital Surveyor, it takes less than 10 minutes a mile for a human to review and validate the software’s labels.
Digital Surveyor can not just identify features but provide more detailed information about them. Baikovitz walked me through a product demo and showed how Digital Surveyor can not only identify a utility pole but quickly tell me the angle at which that utility pole is leaning. This capability is critical for situations where people need information really quickly, Baikovitz said, like after an extreme weather event.