Top 10: Smart Infrastructure Companies

Smart infrastructure integrates digital technologies like IoT sensors, AI and data analytics with physical assets like roads, bridges and water systems.

Through this integration, there is a real-time monitoring and more accurate decision-making for increased resilience and efficiency across construction. 

It allows for an improved management of resources, with more sustainable and resilient buildings across the city. 

Construction Digital takes a look at the Top 10 Smart Infrastructure Companies which are turning traditional infrastructure into responsive systems. 

10. Buildots

Revenue: US$51.9m
Employees: ~250
CEO & Co-Founder: Roy Danon
Founded: 2018

Buildots uses AI and analytics to create 'smart infrastructure' through its digitalised, data-driven environment. The services provides AI-powered progress tracking which reduces delays by up to 50% through its accurate site performance measurements. 

Through its automatic dashboard, users can view what is happening on-site with real-time data updates, allowing for full visibility across the project, with predictive early risk warnings so that clients do not need to needlessly worry.

As a result, Buildots ensures accountability and encourages collaboration in one space.

9. Trimble

Revenue: US$3.7bn
Employees: ~12,000
CEO: Rob Painter
Founded: 1978

Trimble's solutions can be applied across designing and constructing buildings, operating and maintaining infrastructure and optimising global supply chains. With Trimble, construction leaders gain the power to oversee improved accuracy, simply tasks and increase revenue. 

Construction software technologies help companies navigate the turbulence in the industry, ensuing they can deliver high quality projects on time, despite the challenges they face. Through its innovative use of 3D modelling and data analytics, Trimble helps construction companies grow their capabilities.

8. Hexagon

Revenue: €5.4bn (US$6.3bn)
Employees: ~24,500
President and CEO: Anders Svensson
Founded: 1975

As urbanisation requirements grow, the demand for smart infrastructure capabilities grows with it. Hexagon's customers can gain speed, productivity and efficiency while also gaining the confidence in safe, resilient and sustainable infrastructure.

Hexagon applies its capabilities across the project's lifecycle, offering accurate positioning and measurements through an integrated 3D model in the design phase, digitally mapping out materials, estimating and cost in the plan phase, up to the 24/7 visibility to optimise safety and efficiency in the operation and maintenance phase.

7. Johnson Controls

Revenue: US$22.95bn
Employees: ~87,000
CEO: Joakim Weidemanis
Founded: 1885

Construction companies can transform buildings from static entities into smart and strategic assets through Johnson Controls. Its smart buildings toolkit contains modern equipment, technology and services which amplify the safety and performance of a building in order to work better. 

In its operations, Johnson Controls blends efficiency, electrification and digitalisation for its smart buildings in order to save energy and money, while also making strategic decisions to best drive productivity, health and wellness of its community. 

6. Autodesk

Revenue: US$5.50bn
Employees: ~14,500
President & CEO: Andrew Anagnost
Founded: 1982

Autodesk leverages Building Information Modeling (BIM), geographic information systems and cloud-based data in order to provide high-quality smart infrastructure solutions. It integrated IoT and real-time data in order to ensure the safety and improved operational efficiency of infrastructure. 

Autodesk Construction Cloud can be integrated with existing software in order to provide the seamless exchanging of data analytics and document management. Through this, there is the secure and quick collaboration of teams, enabling projects to meet deadline without concern.

5. Schneider Electric

Revenue: €38.15bn (US$45.1bn)
Employees: ~177,000
CEO: Olivier Blum
Founded: 1836

Schneider Electric is working to ensure cities of the future will be resilient, inclusive, sustainable and efficient through its smart infrastructure insights. Schneider has helped Shanghai Metro develop smooth operations for its complex rail system, ensuring passengers can have a safe journey. 

Modernisation and digitalisation are the keys drivers of resilient for Schneider Electric, with constant strives to innovation in order to mitigate risks while also optimising resources for sustainability and efficiency. 

4. Bentley Systems

Revenue: US$1.35bn
Employees: ~5,000
CEO: Nicholas Cumins
Founded: 1984

Bentley can apply its software across all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle and tailor to each industry sector. It can meet the demands of each sector, across transportation, water, energy, cities and mining. 

With its selection of AI-powered digital twins, it can connect the virtual and physical worlds to better plan, design, build and operate infrastructure projects and unlock the potential for resilient and sustainable operations. It offers data-driven and purpose built software to best fit each project demand.

3. ABB

Revenue: US$32.9bn
Employees: ~105,000
CEO: Morten Wierod
Founded: 1988

Through the leveraging of digital and operational technology, ABB helps in the development of smart infrastructure, meeting the growing demand for sustainable, intelligent and reliable solutions. It offers support across building, transportation, data centres, water, energy and industries in order to boost sustainability and efficiency. 

By combining insights from partners, innovation, sustainability and digitalisation, ABB contributes to the development of smart cities, improving quality of life with safety built into each new building. 

2. Honeywell International

Revenue: US$38.5bn
Employees: ~102,000
Chairman and CEO: Vimal Kapur
Founded: 1885

With Honeywell, construction companies can build more safe, resilient and sustainable cities, taking less time for more efficient operations, without sacrificing safety. Through Honeywell's solution suite for smart cities, businesses can make it easier for emergency services to operate around the area, with increased community engagement and better resource use. 

Honeywell's IoT enabled city scale command & control platform relies on analytics in order to manage multiple city services, using a single-view solution with intelligent anomaly detection and optimised situational awareness. 

It also offers its digital twin technology to create accurate virtual replicas of buildings and assets, in order to allow city planners to visualise, analyse and optimise systems. This allows for an improved operational efficiency with better resource management, also relying on predictive analytics to identify potential issues before they become a real problem.

1. Siemens

Revenue: €75.9bn (US$87.7bn)
Employees: ~312,000
CEO: Roland Busch
Founded: 1847

As urbanisation, environmental change, digitalisation and resource efficiency present new challenges, Siemens addresses these topics through its smart infrastructure solutions. By combining the digital and real worlds, Siemens transforms infrastructure at speed and scale in order to champion collaboration. 

It uses its digital and technological capabilities to encourage its customers to also scale with sustainability in mind. Using CO₂ transparency, renewable integration and electrification, it works to ensure infrastructure is energy efficient, with improved customer asset performance and reliability.

Through IoT-enabled sensors, AI-driven automation and advanced switchgear, it drives the resilient and sustainable transformation of energy infrastructure. By integrating IoT and AI, Siemens is helping pave the way towards human-centric, autonomous buildings through smart environments. The Siemens Infrastructure Transition Monitor tracks the changing infrastructure transition, demonstrating where urgent priorities lie in order to make the best changes.