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Two different categories of tool

Field management and BIM collaboration tools such as Dalux are built around the model and the work: drawings, models, issues, checklists, inspections, handover. People open them in order to do something — raise a defect, close a task, check a drawing revision.

CONCAM is built around the record. A fixed 4K camera photographs the site every ten minutes for the length of the project and files every photo on a timeline anyone you invite can browse.

We will not describe anyone else's feature set here — it is theirs to describe and it changes. What we can be specific about is what CONCAM does.

What CONCAM covers

One weatherproof camera per view, connected over its own built-in 4G, uploading automatically to encrypted EU cloud storage. No site network, no on-site server and no software to install — the portal runs in a browser.

Everything is organised per project: an interactive timeline you can wind to any date and hour, archive downloads for any period, role-based access for clients, investors and contractors, and share links with an optional password that can be embedded on your own website.

Drone photo sessions and 360 degree site walks on floor plans are filed into the same project, so the aerial and interior views sit next to the ground-level record.

• A 4K photo every 10 minutes, for the whole contract
• One project timeline, navigable by date and hour
• Archive downloads for any period, at full resolution
• Role-based access plus password-protected share links
• Encrypted, EU-only storage, aligned with GDPR

Where the overlap actually is

The overlap is smaller than the shortlist suggests. Both kinds of tool can hold photographs of a site; the difference is who takes them and how complete they end up being.

In a field management tool, photographs are attached by people, to the item being documented: an issue, an inspection, a task. That is exactly right for that purpose, and it means the coverage follows the work someone chose to record.

CONCAM's photographs are attached to nothing. They are taken on a schedule whether or not anyone raises an issue that day — which is what makes them useful when the question turns up months later and nobody thought to photograph it at the time.

Most teams end up running both

If you already use a field management platform, CONCAM is not a replacement and we would not suggest tearing it out. Keep the issue tracking, checklists and model coordination where they are, and add the continuous visual layer underneath.

If you are genuinely choosing, it comes down to the problem in front of you. If the problem is coordinating work, inspections and defects, that is what a field management platform is for. If the problem is that nobody can see the site and there is no reliable record of what happened when, a camera solves that directly — and it is online within 24 hours of being mounted, rather than being a process change for the whole team.