WakeCap, the IoT-based enterprise solution aimed at improving safety and productivity at the construction site, said it has won the Start-up City Pitch Competition held on the sidelines of The Big 5 construction expo in Dubai.

The company battled it out with 14 other start-ups from across the globe to clinch the prize worth $25,000 following its selection by a panel of experts, including Kavya Aggarwal, Project Manager at Consolidated Contractors Company, Hana Barakat, Program Manager at StartAD, Ned Jeroudi, Senior Advisor, Innovation + Future Technology at Expo 2020 Dubai, and Tiberiu Iacomu, Founder of the Improbable Agency.

On the win, Ishita Sood Kochhar, the co-founder and CEO of Wakecap, said: "The Big 5 Start-Up City Competition has been a great experience and I would really like to thank dmg events and the team organizing the Start-Up City initiative."

"We are a tech-based construction start-up, trying to improve safety and productivity on work sites. We are based out of Dubai and we are running multiple pilots here to test the market and to promote rapid product development," noted Kochchar.

"This platform has been really encouraging; we have met with many suitable business partners and we have made a wealth of contacts to follow up with after the show," she added.

Construction's poor productivity leads to 98 per cent of the projects incurring cost overruns or delays due lack of connectivity, slow information sharing and a lack of automation on site, she explained.

WakeCap enables real-time field reporting via integrated sensors into the existing personal safety equipment & connecting job-sites via wireless mesh network technology, she added.-TradeArabia News Service