Customer Success Story: BETA Group

• Inspections cut from weeks to 3 days
• 30+ municipal projects in 9 months
• 4,000+ centerline miles assessed

BETA Group's GIS and Asset Management team, led by project manager Tito Sanchez, was looking for a way to help the municipalities it serves keep pace with the demands of infrastructure asset management. Manual inspections were reliable but slow, and Sanchez believed BETA could better serve its clients by leveraging emerging technologies like LiDAR. After conversations with Cyvl co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez in 2021, BETA began piloting Cyvl's vehicle-mounted LiDAR and AI-powered assessment platform.

The technology proved itself quickly: BETA could scan and assess far more infrastructure in far less time than manual methods allowed, without sacrificing the data quality municipalities depend on for planning decisions. That combination of speed and reliability turned an initial pilot into a rapidly expanding program across New England.

Many of the municipalities BETA Group serves manage aging infrastructure with limited staff and budget for regular assessment, making it difficult to keep pavement and asset condition data current. Manual inspection methods, while dependable, could not scale to meet that demand without significant time and cost.

BETA needed a way to expand its capacity to serve more communities without expanding its inspection timelines, all while maintaining the accuracy municipalities rely on for infrastructure planning and funding decisions.

Before adopting Cyvl's technology, BETA Group's infrastructure assessments relied on manual field inspections. Large municipalities could require up to three weeks to inspect, while even smaller communities typically needed a minimum of one and a half to two weeks. That pace made the process time-consuming and costly, and limited how many municipalities BETA's GIS and Asset Management team could realistically serve at once.

Since partnering with Cyvl, BETA Group has completed more than 30 municipal infrastructure projects across New England in under nine months, assessing over 4,000 centerline miles of roadway. Inspection timelines that once took weeks now take as little as three days, letting BETA serve significantly more municipalities without adding staff.

In Haverhill, Massachusetts, for example, BETA used Cyvl's platform to scan 230 centerline miles across 2,218 segments in a matter of days, generating the data needed to build the city's five-year pavement management plan. The reports integrate directly with the GIS and asset management software municipalities already use, including ArcGIS, Cartegraph, Cityworks, and Civil 3D.

Cyvl combines vehicle-mounted 3D mapping LiDAR sensors with proprietary AI algorithms to automate infrastructure asset inventory and condition assessment. BETA Group is a full-service civil engineering and planning firm offering GIS and asset management, stormwater management, transportation, water and wastewater engineering, and landscape architecture services to municipalities across the region.