The days of paper-thin bedroom walls, jelly-like mattresses and flimsy portable dongas may soon be a thing of the past for Australia’s 70,000 fly-in, fly-out workers as mining companies use technology to optimise the design of camps and help them get the most from their FIFO budgets.
Developed from university-based research and using more than 500,000 data points from FIFO workers, start-up InSite Analytics has developed an artificial intelligence-backed program that assesses the design of new camps to help improve areas such as lighting, privacy, security, furnishings, and pathways.
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