Our journey started with an idea: to provide to infrastructural owner and to their technical staff, or to their engineering services supplier, an innovative and A.I.-driven software to speed up inspections and structural assessments.

Our Founders knew that the world of structural engineering has always seen experts stripped of their goggles, jacket and calculation tools to go out into the field, equipped with pen and paper and relying on their experience and patience to endure inspections in every season and even the most adverse conditions.

The health and safety control of structures and buildings has buildings has seen, over the decades, the placing in the hands of technicians of more sophisticated, capable and smart tools while remaining their feet in the mud, in the water because they were in close proximity to the works they were they were monitoring.

Even the introduction of IOT technology, with sophisticated monitoring devices, fails to ensure the true minimise the time to be spent on field checks, because images and tests are to be carried out in situ, as almost all of national regulations mandatorily requires.

The software CEA, developed with the support of technicians and engineers who for decades have deployed their forces in the most detailed and in-depth inspections, aims to provide the world of structural engineering the possibility of working remotely, away from the structure under examination, on images collected in a complete, accurate and three-dimensional images from drones or other automated tools and on which, with the support of A.I. algorithms, the defects have already been annotated and the criticalities are evident.

The CEA is also the only tool to build the digital history of each structure, collecting and making usable at all times the data from the past (original design, end-of-construction as build and material test documents, inspections carried out over the years) and the present, through the automated inspections: all referred to the 3D model of the structure, in which the constituent elements and defects are uniquely positioned and georeferenced.

The CEA is an indispensable tool for today’s engineers, so that they can dedicate their resources, their time, their teams and their skills to the final risk assessment, through the rapid and through analysis of defects annotated on thousands of images, conducted with the support of A.I. and not only with human eyes.

The software CEA supports structural engineering, enhances the processing capabilities of engineers and the management capabilities of asset owners, which can never replace the purely human ability to comprehensively assess the health and safety of a bridge, of a tunnel, of a dam, of a building.

We are a select group of people with very diverse backgrounds, led by a senior board of directors with hundreds of experiences in software development, structural engineering, and growing and running businesses. All this makes the KnowCE environment truly unique, do you want to be a pioneer with us?