Floating Bridges by Clarity

Clarity's Premier Bridge Assessment App

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Floating Bridges

The Premier Bridge Assessment Application

Project Overview

For this project, senior undergraduate MIS students must integrate all of the knowledge they gained throughout their education at the Fox School of Business and the Management Information Systems program. Students must comprehensively identify a business problem and design an innovative IT product to solve that problem. Their design must solve the specific challenges of the problem while being commercially viable and technologically feasible.

Clarity, Inc.

Clarity is a theoretical company which was created by Alexandra Iacovetti, Nicholas Rivera, Bridget Silk, and Benjamin Sulaiman as part of their undergraduate MIS capstone project at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. The company offers customers Floating Bridges, a bridge inspection and assessment solution which integrates HD 3D drone mapping, automatic defect identification, and an augmented reality bridge analysis environment to transform how bridges are inspected and assessed today.

 

The Problem

Over 10% of the nation’s bridges are structurally deficient. This makes around 60,000 bridges that are not structurally sound for passing vehicles and need repair immediately, but how does the government know which ones to focus on first? The US government needs to spend roughly $300 billion dollars to fix the 60,000 decrepit bridges, and over that time, countless more bridges will become structurally deficient. Unfortunately, they are running out of time and resources to fix the nation’s bridges. On average, it takes an expert group at least 6 weeks to properly assess a bridge’s structural needs and report these findings to the local government, costing roughly $50,000 per bridge.

On January 20, 2017, the Delaware River Bridge was placed under ‘high’ risk after engineers spotted a massive crack in the foundation of the bridge. The integrity of the bridge was considered high risk and it has since been shut down for analysis and repair. In this worst case scenario, the closure of the bridge redirected over 42,000 cars of daily traffic and cost the municipality over $40,000 in lost toll revenue per day (~$3M in total). Engineers have been working around-the-clock to complete an extensive analysis of the current condition of the bridge in order to come up with a solution. Since the average time of inspection and assessment work takes roughly 6 weeks, Clarity aims to streamline this process in order to save time and money, while increasing safety. Utilizing Clarity’s Floating Bridges solution outlined in this website will allow bridge owners to decrease downtime and avoid potential disasters similar to the Delaware River Bridge.

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