How Vedant Construction Replaced Manual Surveys with Drone Mapping at NALCO's Odisha Site
Vedant Construction Private Limited switched from manual survey methods to Aeroyantra's cloud processing platform for construction monitoring and earthwork management at a large-scale NALCO site in Odisha. Here's how it changed their workflow.
How Vedant Construction Replaced Manual Surveys with Drone Mapping at NALCO's Odisha Site
Vedant Construction Private Limited switched from manual survey methods to Aeroyantra's cloud processing platform for construction monitoring and earthwork management at a large-scale NALCO site in Odisha. Here's how it changed their workflow.
At a Glance
| Company | Vedant Construction Private Limited |
| Project Lead | Vedant Jalan |
| Site | NALCO facility, Odisha |
| Project Type | Large-scale construction monitoring and earthwork management |
| Previous Method | Manual ground surveys |
| Platform | Aeroyantra cloud processing |
The Challenge: Manual Surveys on a Large Site
Large construction sites move fast. Earthwork volumes change daily. Progress needs to be documented, reconciled against plans, and reported to the client - in this case, NALCO, one of India's largest aluminium producers.
For Vedant Construction Private Limited, managing this at scale using traditional methods meant deploying survey crews on the ground, waiting days for measurements to come back, and making decisions on data that was already outdated by the time it arrived.
On a site the size of the NALCO facility in Odisha, the limitations compounded quickly:
- Survey crews could only cover a fraction of the site per day
- Earthwork volumes were estimated rather than precisely measured
- Progress documentation was time-consuming to compile and difficult to present visually to the client
- Discrepancies between planned and actual earthwork quantities were caught late - often after the problem had already grown
Vedant Jalan, leading the team on site, needed a way to get accurate, site-wide data faster - without adding headcount or cost.
The Switch to Aeroyantra
Vedant Construction adopted Aeroyantra's cloud processing platform for their NALCO site operations. The workflow was straightforward to implement alongside their existing drone hardware.
The team flies systematic grid missions over the site and uploads imagery directly to Aeroyantra's platform. Processing happens in the cloud - no local workstation, no specialist software installation, no waiting for a single machine to crunch through thousands of images overnight.
What used to take a survey crew multiple days now takes a single drone flight and a few hours of cloud processing.
"The site is large and manual surveys were simply not keeping up. With Aeroyantra, we get a complete picture of the site - earthwork volumes, progress against plan, areas that need attention - in a fraction of the time. It has changed how we manage and report on this project."
— Vedant Jalan, Vedant Construction Private Limited
What Changed
Construction monitoring that actually keeps up with the site
With drone surveys now running on a regular cycle, the Vedant Construction team has a current, georeferenced view of the entire NALCO site at all times. Progress is documented with orthomosaics and DSMs that show exactly what has been built, graded, and completed - not estimates based on partial ground observations.
When NALCO needs a progress update, the data is already there.
Earthwork volumes measured precisely, not estimated
Cut and fill analysis on a large site with manual methods produces numbers with significant uncertainty. With Aeroyantra's volumetrics workflow, the team draws boundaries on the processed point cloud and gets precise cut and fill volumes - broken down by zone, comparable to previous surveys, and exportable in formats the client can use directly.
Material reconciliation that previously took days of manual calculation now comes out of a single processing run.
Problems caught earlier
The shift from periodic manual surveys to regular drone surveys changed the team's relationship with site data. Discrepancies between planned and actual earthwork quantities - areas running behind grade, unexpected material movement - now show up in the weekly survey rather than in the monthly reconciliation.
Catching a problem three weeks earlier than before is the difference between a quick correction and a costly rework.
Client reporting without the manual effort
Aeroyantra's PDF reports give Vedant Construction a professional, visual deliverable for every survey cycle - orthomosaic with annotated progress zones, volume tables, and cut/fill maps. Reports that previously required significant manual compilation time are now generated directly from the platform.
NALCO receives clear, consistent documentation on a regular schedule.
The Result
Vedant Construction replaced a manual survey workflow that could not keep pace with a large, active construction site with a drone-based system that gives them complete, accurate site data on a regular cycle.
The operational shift is straightforward: more data, faster, at lower cost than deploying additional survey resources - with outputs that are more accurate and more useful than manual estimates.
For a project at the scale and visibility of a NALCO facility in Odisha, that shift in data quality has a direct impact on how the project is managed and how it is presented to the client.
About Vedant Construction Private Limited
Vedant Construction Private Limited is an infrastructure and construction company operating across large-scale industrial and civil projects in India. The company is currently engaged in construction and earthwork management at NALCO's facility in Odisha.
About Aeroyantra
Aeroyantra is a cloud-based drone data processing platform built for construction, mining, and infrastructure teams. The platform processes drone imagery into georeferenced orthomosaics, elevation models, and volumetric reports - with no local hardware or software installation required.
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