Al Dhafra Region Municipality - Award for Excellence in Innovation in Government

Company: Al Dhafra Region Municipality
Company Description: Al Dhafra Region Multiplicity (DRM) is located in Madinat Zayed west of the emirate of Abu Dhabi; the municipality was established in 2006.It is an independent government entity with full legal capacity. The Municipality is comprised of various sections and departments and offers services for the residents of six cities, Liwa & Madinat Zayed, Marfa, Ghiathy, Silaa and Dalma Island.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Award for Excellence in Innovation in Government - Organizations with 100 or More Employees

Nomination Title: DRM Automated Inspection System (DRM-AIS)

1. Provide an essay of up to 625 words describing the nominated organization's innovative achievements since July 1 2019. Describe the organization's innovative achievements in at least three (3) of the following areas: organizational management, corporate social responsibility, financial management, corporate communications, customer service, human resources and employee development, information technology, marketing, product design & development, and research & development:

    

   Total 504 words used.

   Introduction to DRM-AIS:

   In Reference to Al Dhafrah Region Municipality Technological development and future foresight and prepare the pre-plans for better communities’ services, DRM has invented AI distortion inspection by Vehicle-mounted camera linked to a continuous learning artificial intelligence system. The camera sends the images directly to a specialized AI image analysis system, provides information related to these images, classifies them according to their contents, and sends them to back-offices for review and approval. In that case reducing the presence of inspectors in the fields and speeding up daily inspection routine

   Why we develop DRM-AIS:

   • Inspectors have a lot of mistakes to label the distortions
      
   • In the very hot summer, the inspection can't move easily under the day sun, and this will reduce the distortion collection over the time
      
   • Inspectors looking for only distortions and there is a lot of street asset can be counted but the time of inspector daily routine is limited
      
   • Inspectors need to have many training courses to keep aware about distortions

   DRM-AIS Features:

   • Automatic detection of City distortions.
      
   • Proactive reporting.
      
   • Reducing routine inspection time.
      
   • Creating heat maps that help in detect City distortions easily.
      
   • Ability to count City and Street Asset and identify the missing ones.
      
   • Ability to detect and issue violations and warnings.
      
   • Filtering repeated damages reported and addressing them.

   DRM-AIS Outcome:

   The project tested to evaluate the output that will be achieved by applying the AI and automated inspection compare to the daily inspection routine done by human.

   - The Artificial Intelligence Inspection was able to complete its inspection Routine of 10 km in 8 minutes, and counted 1003 road assets on both sides of the roads and detected 46 City distortions. No inspector was involved to this case.

   - While two inspectors’ Employee made the same tour, driving the same distance within 4 hours, and they were unable to detect any of the Road assets, and they only detect 7 distortions

   DRM-AIS in work:

   The System achieve a very accuracy in catching and register the Distortion cases since we implemented in Jun 2020 and we now proud to:

   • submit more than 22,000 Distortion from the system.
      
   • 96% accuracy in calcifying the distortion. Before the Number of rejected case increased using human reported, and recurrence cases detected as a correct case from inspectors
      
   • Reduce number of vehicles in a daily inspection routine to 6 cars only and reduce the total cost to less than 800,000 /Year as it was 18 cars daily along with 36 inspectors in 14 hours per day, which is cost around 5 Million Dirham / year
      
   • Number of summer cases increased as the number of reported daily case in summer months was lower as the daily summer temperature above 50 degrees.
      
   • 2 inspectors need 4 hours to report a 10 KM area where as the AI project now can use only one car to report the same area in 15 minutes

   Project Team:

   • Shadi Nabil Ahmed.

   Support Documents and videos:

   • White paper and live video for the project innovation in the attchamnets.

DRM Automated Inspection System (DRM-AIS)
	AIS_White_paper.pdf
	Live_AIS.mp4