Inspection Management & Analytics
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Our robust digital visualization and inspection platform is configurable to support your workflows and system integrations. It enables field inspectors to capture detailed data accurately and efficiently while allowing project managers to create and deploy specialized inspection templates in seconds from the office. As inspectors review assets, real-time progress tracking instantly updates project managers on completion status, keeping everyone aligned. The result is a seamless, transparent process that provides a comprehensive audit trail lasting for years, allowing you to effortlessly compare historical data year-over-year for proactive maintenance and indisputable regulatory compliance.
The Geospatial Video and Imagery Platform
CartoVid is a unified visual data platform designed to help teams ingest, manage, view, and securely share geospatial video and imagery—regardless of the sensor, data source, or file format.
It allows you to collect data from diverse sources, including helicopters, drones, dashcams, and cellphones. Once ingested, it spatially indexes your unstructured inspection data, transforming it into a searchable, enterprise-wide system of record. This enables users to quickly spatially filter their assets to access the most recent and relevant visual data.
Beyond Silos: Your Organization's Shared Visual System of Record
CartoVid serves as the centralized hub for all your organization’s visual asset data, fundamentally solving the problem of duplicate data collection and siloed information. This accessible, shared platform ensures that multiple departments, such as engineering, operations, environmental and compliance, can efficiently access the precise visual data they need for their unique use cases.
Benefits of Digital Inspections
Enhanced Analysis Tools: Users can upload imagery and video, then pause, zoom, and annotate directly onto the asset, allowing for precise flagging of anomalies and the creation of spatially-specific observations.
- Actionable Records: This capability transforms raw visual data into actionable records that can be incorporated into GIS mappings.
- Complete Audit Trail & Compliance: Provides a complete historical audit trail for compliance and high-quality, auditable insights.
- Improved Planning: Supports preventive maintenance planning and rapid remote damage assessment through comparative analysis over time.
- System Integration: CartoVid can integrate directly with your Asset Management and GIS platforms to automatically create work orders and update asset information & locations
Uniformly Collecting Data to Your Specific Needs
CartoVid enhances efficiency by offering fully configurable inspection templates that adapt precisely to your organization’s unique operational requirements and assets. Instead of using generic forms, teams can quickly build and deploy digital templates tailored to specific inspection types—whether it’s checking transmission towers, analyzing bridge infrastructure, or assessing road pavement.
- Mandatory Fields and Logic: Templates can be configured with mandatory fields, ensuring inspectors cannot submit a report without key pieces of data (e.g., asset ID, GPS location, or a specific anomaly code). This removes the inspector’s need to “guess” what information is important.
- Pre-defined Inputs: Instead of open text boxes where an inspector might write “A little cracked,” templates use drop-down menus or multiple-choice selections with standardized, technical terminology (e.g., “Crack Length: <1 inch”). This guarantees consistent language and measurability.
The AI Foundation: Supporting-Gen Asset Monitoring
CartoVid significantly extends the value of visual asset data by acting as the platform for applying Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models directly to your ingested imagery and video.
- Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) or use models provided by third party vendors
- Automatically detect anomalies
- Identify specific assets
- Classify component conditions
- Track changes over time
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Why Sam?
SAM has built a reputation as a trusted, knowledgeable, and innovative partner.
As a leading provider of geospatial data for decision support, SAM serves utilities, transportation, and infrastructure-focused clients. With fifty offices, we are the largest, most technically advanced professional Managed Geospatial Service™ (MGS™) in North America. We use innovative technology to capture and analyze infrastructure and environmental conditions with unmatched speed and accuracy, delivering business insights that ensure the safety, sustainability, and reliability of critical infrastructure for our partners.
CartoVid channels our geospatial expertise to deliver a powerful platform for disaster assessment and infrastructure monitoring. Designed for rapid response and seamless integration, CartoVid transforms aerial imagery and field data into actionable insights—so you can make critical decisions with clarity and confidence.
Frequently Asked Questions
So, what is CartoVid?
- A Data Analytics and AI Platform
- Scalable SaaS software in the Google Cloud Platform
- A secure way to store, organize, and view GPS-enabled videos, photos, LiDAR, and more.
- A fast and easy way to upload and access data from internal and external resources
- A way to communicate, share, and receive data with any users
- Platform to search and collaborate seamlessly within your proprietary data set
- System to enable complete data mining and analytics capabilities
What are examples of use cases for CartoVid?
- Asset & ROW Inspections
- Vegetation Management
- Regulatory Compliance
- Emergency Preparedness
- Quick Capture & Dissemination of Storm Damage
- Safety Training Videos
- Staging Site Pre/Post Condition
- PSC Audit Documentation
- Identifying High-Risk Vegetation
What sources of data can CartoVid use?
- Fleet vehicles using a dashcam
- Drones (Terrestrial, Aerial, & Aquatic)
- Boots on the ground – Mobile Apps or GoPros
- Aerial Patrol (Helicopter or Fixed Wing)
What type of video can be integrated?
- HD (1080, 4k and 8k)
- Infrared/Thermal
- Multispectral (for vegetation health analysis)
- LiDAR
How can CartoVid drive Project management?
- Enables secure access – CartoVid allows project leaders to grant access to individuals or groups, inside and outside an organization, to integrated tools and functions for safe and secure data access, sharing, and collaboration.
- Allows comments and questions on specific data points – Using CartoVid, authorized individuals can directly ask questions, make comments and point out concerns to an individual, a select group, or all project participants.
- Permits pause and zoom observations – Pause and zoom video to inspect objects. Make notations directly on the video. Highlight spatially specific observations, and create actionable records that can be incorporate into GIS mappings.
- Share and copy with internally and externally – Project owners can share video content with partners while retaining ownership of all the content. They can also provide others with their own copies of the video.
- Capture and retain your data history – CartoVid captures and retains a media history of each project, complete with participant comments, observations, questions, and markups. This audit trail provides a visual record of an asset and the surrounding area at any phase of a project or over the life of an asset to enable comparative analyses. This record can be especially valuable for compliance audits.
- Streamline object and condition detection – Object Detection is an extension of CartoVid that detects and delivers actionable insights. Users can define, identify, and locate critical points and specific objects to speed planning and resolution.
Transform Data into Action with CartoVid
Contact us to discover how CartoVid can streamline operations, enhance geospatial insights, and empower smarter decision-making.