Bentley Systems, the infrastructure engineering software company, has announced the acquisition of Blyncsy, a provider of Artificial Intelligence services for departments of transportation to support operations and maintenance activities. The digital twin ecosystem focus of Bentley’s iTwin Ventures portfolio is bolstered by accelerating the development and propagation of broadly valuable infrastructure asset analytics.
Blyncsy applies computer vision and AI in analysing commonly available imagery to identify maintenance issues on roadway networks. It’s founder originally conceived the idea for the company while stuck at a traffic light, believing there had to be ways to combine real-time condition data and innovative technologies to help DoTs become more efficient.
Blyncsy’s disruptive AI services replace costly and slow manual data collection efforts, reducing the need for personnel or specialised vehicles or hardware in the field and improving transportation owner-operators’ awareness and timely mitigation of road conditions.
Bentley’s iTwin Ventures Managing Executive, Mike Schellhase, said: “We were so convinced of the significance of their [Blyncsy] breakthrough that we undertook its outright acquisition, in order to scale it rapidly and pervasively. We expect investments in widespread asset analytics to accelerate leveraging infrastructure digital twins.”
