Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia (part 2 of 2)

29 July 2026

Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia Australian Parliament

00:00 - 00:25
Speaker 10
The equipment, so it will actually stop the stop the piece of equipment before it actually impacts anybody.  And similarly, the...  You can get some really interesting AI enabled technology now, which scans structures and then compares them back to plan to identify deficiencies.  So really great for things like temporary structures and scaffolding where you've got lots and lots of components and checking them manually is quite labor intensive.  This is actually a really good productivity time saver. 
00:26 - 00:30
Speaker 114
Are you seeing a good uptake of that technology? 
00:32 - 01:12
Speaker 10
Look, it does vary.  Particularly with mobile plant, this is not something that tends to come standard.  It's not like when you buy your car, you get the camera on the back with the reversing sensor and it beeps at you.  These are usually things that have to be added aftermarket, and that is a is a cost to to builders that then require that as part of their build spec for their project.  But we are seeing that those are really great safety initiatives. 

So particularly the the alert enabled AI sensors are are usually being fitted more more frequently.  The ones that then interface with the engine are a little bit more complicated, probably a little bit more innovative. 

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