Scanalytics CEO presents at Georgia Tech R&D Manufacturing Consortium
Scanalytics CEO Joe Scanlin on campus at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a global leader in engineering innovation. At its Atlanta campus, it attracts the world’s top minds, businesses, and government support to experiment and create our shared future. In February 2024, it hosted a Georgia Tech Manufacturing Consortium inviting business leaders from Ingersol Rand, Kawasaki, Intel, Rockwell, Thermo Fisher, International Paper, military research scientists, and other thought leaders, including the team at Scanalytics. The science and art of manufacturing involves many layers, including innovation of process, materials R&D, and cutting-edge technology in robotics and AI.
Smart flooring can create safer environments such as ensuring robotic arms swing do not extend beyond the intended footprint
Joe Scanlin Shares His Passion for AI and Manufacturing Innovation
(February 22, 2024) “What excites me about the collection of folks in the room today and the overarching agenda, is this convergence of AI and manufacturing applied to enabling the digitization of physical things.
When we take things that didn’t used to be digitized and we digitize them, we start to be able to do things we couldn’t do before and we accelerate the capabilities of mankind in really important ways. Some of us here remember the days where navigation in a car meant printing physical maps and directions from MapQuest. Then along came Google with Google Maps and they digitized maps and roads, where now we not only have real-time navigation, but we’ve expanded that to live traffic updates, re-routing for construction or accidents, and even precise locations of potholes.
Even though we may take them for granted today, those capabilities seemed like superpowers when we were first introduced to them. So it stands to reason that if we digitize the right things, we get all of these resulting superpowers that make our collective lives better.
At Scanalytics we couldn’t think of a more noble application of digitization than physical buildings. Our buildings are full of data. We don’t necessarily think of it that way when we are moving through space and time within a building, but our interactions with the built world are telling an important story that is not being sufficiently recorded or used. If we could take that data and digitize it, we could do all sorts of amazing things with it. We imagined senior living facilities that could predict falls and measure the progression of neurodegenerative diseases, offices that are more energy efficient, and so on. The possibilities are boundless as we reimagine our spaces working with and for us.”
Scanalytics VP of Flooring and patented Scientist, Keith Gray with GA Tech’s Scott McWhorter, PhD
A Mission To Create A Better Built World
We spend over 95% of our lives inside of buildings, yet most buildings have less intelligence than a typical car. Buildings are also the single largest category of annual greenhouse gas emissions (42% of total.) To accommodate the largest wave of building and infrastructure growth in human history, for the next 40 years the world is expected to add approximately 2.6 trillion square feet of new floor area to the building stock. (That’s the equivalent to adding an entire New York CIty to the world, every month, for 40 months.)
Scanalytics will continue to partner with innovators like Georgia Tech, business customers and partners, and the Department of Energy to make our buildings smarter and far more carbon efficient.
