viAct

viAct is the Asia leading AI smart construction monitoring cloud platform. With our proprietary vision technologies and extensive deployment experience, we can detect and anticipate the potential risks in construction site, trigger real-time warning signals and instant alerts to save worker lives. Since 2016, we focus on AI R&D and accumulated over 10 million domain data sets, pre-built more than 20 AI modules and operated our solution +30,000 hours construction projects. viAct is simple to use, flexible for plug & play with high detection accuracy and covering different kinds of working areas i.e. civil works, power plants, infrastructure, smart city and residential developments. Funded by SOSV, Artesian and Alibaba, viAct was granted the Top100 Global ConTech startups by BuildWorld & PwC in 2019 & Top50 ConTech Startups 2020 by CEMEX Ventures.

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Solution

	In model development and training, HUAWEI CLOUD provides Elastic Cloud Server (ECS) that can be automatically acquired at any time and the computing power is elastically scalable for flexible training tasks. In model deployment, HUAWEI CLOUD provides powerful and economical Ascend Atlas edge computing equipment for business deployment.

Benefits

ECS services can improve the utilization of GPU resources, ensure the smooth completion of urgent training tasks , provide stable and easy-to-use computing resources. The Acend solution guarantees deployment flexibility with high-performance edge devices.

总部位于中国香港的 viAct 今天宣布完成了 200 万美元的种子轮融资，由 SOSV 和 Vectr Ventures 共同领投。本次参投方还包括阿里巴巴香港创业基金会、Artesian Ventures 和 ParticleX。viAct 成立于 2016 年，主要通过基于人工智能的云平台，结合计算机视觉、边缘设备和移动应用，帮助建筑工地进行全天候监控。

目前该公司已经服务于亚洲和欧洲的 30 多家建筑行业客户，本次筹集的资金将用于研发、产品开发和拓展东南亚国家。该平台利用计算机视觉来检测潜在的安全隐患、施工进度以及机械和材料的位置。实时警报会被发送到一个界面简洁的移动应用上，专为那些经常“在嘈杂和动态的环境中工作，很难看清详细的仪表盘”的工程师设计。

联合创始人兼首席运营官 Hugo Cheuk 表示，该公司将会率先进入印尼和越南等东南亚市场，因为政府对智慧城市和新基础设施的规划意味着未来5到10年那里的新建设项目将增加。它还将进入新加坡，因为开发商愿意采用基于AI的技术。

SOSV 合伙人、Chinaccelerator 董事总经理 Oscar Ramos 在新闻声明中表示：“COVID加速了数字化转型，而建筑业等传统行业正在经历一个更快的转型过程，这对生存至关重要。viAct团队不仅创造了一个能推动行业价值的产品，而且还能赢得客户的信任，加速应用”。