Construction site monitoring without the site visit

The problem with asking people for photos

A lot of site monitoring still runs on goodwill. A site manager remembers to photograph the work, sends it by email or a messaging app, and the pictures end up scattered across four inboxes and nobody’s archive.

That arrangement fails exactly when it matters. The week you need to know what the drainage looked like before it was backfilled is the week nobody photographed it.

A fixed camera removes the human step. It photographs the site every ten minutes whether anyone remembers or not, and it files the result in one place that everyone reads from.

What remote monitoring looks like day to day

Open the portal in a browser and you see the current state of each site you have access to. Spin the project timeline back to any date and hour to see what was happening then.

Progress meetings get a shared reference instead of competing recollections. So does the weekly report: pull the photos for the period you are reporting on and attach them.

Because the record is continuous and timestamped, it also answers the questions that surface months later, when a delay, a variation or a defect needs a date attached to it.

• A photo every 10 minutes from each camera, uploaded automatically
• One timeline per project, navigable by date and hour
• Archive downloads for any period
• Works on any device with a browser — nothing to install

Several sites, one portal

Contractors rarely run one project. Each site is its own project in the portal, and you move between them without logging in again.

Access is granted per project. A subcontractor working on one site sees that site only; the client sees theirs; an investor sees the ones they funded; your own team sees what you allow.

Where you want to show progress outside the portal — to buyers, to a municipality, on your own website — a share link does it, with an optional password.

How often the sites are photographed

Every camera photographs its site every ten minutes by default, around the clock, without anybody having to remember to do it.

That interval is not fixed. It is set per camera and per time of day, so a site can run hourly overnight when nothing is moving and go down to one photo a minute on the days that matter — a pour, a lift, an inspection — and back afterwards.

What monitoring here does not mean

This is documentation, not surveillance and not security. There is no live video feed and no motion detection.

What you get is an honest, continuous, timestamped record of the site, stored in the EU, that people can read for themselves and reach their own conclusions from.

Where a project asks for it, the people in the photos can be blurred automatically before anyone is shown them.