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Digital Twin Services: Capture your Facility

Digital Twin Services (DTS) utilizes a collaboration software platform that organizes all things CAD and 3D to allow us to compare two digital twins. The software compiles 360 captures, BIM, Lidar Point Clouds, SLAM, 2D-CAD, GIS and drone topo-mosaics. The platform gives a guideline of truth for entire teams and organizations.

Inspection, Assessment, and Audit Processes

A crucial problem with existing and older facilities is the wrong information given for inspections, assessments and audits. Many team members collect information individually but do not share the results or maintain the information in a single location. Hence, a lot of people repeat similar work.

This is not an efficient process and leads to increased project costs, miscommunication, change orders, and rework. DTS allows all stakeholders to share the same site documentations and images.

Reducing Issues by Reducing Site Visits

80-90% of visits to job sites can be removed with the use of Digital Twin Services (including trip charges).

By using 3D visualization, site managers do not need to worry about visitors coming to the hard-to-reach facilities such as offshore assets, air-access-only towers, sites with climbing or scaffolding, and facilities with safety risks (power, energy, chemical, etc.). They don’t need to worry about visitor approvals, making sure guests are safety trained, have insurance or any of the administration that is required to come on-site.

Aerial and Terrestrial Captures can be helpful when reducing site visits. These give a variety of scopes to meet the visual needs.

Aerial Capture:

Most Aerial footage is captured by drones or airborne technologies, however, some aerial footage comes from pole mounted photography or 360 photogrammetry on the ground. Aerial Captures can record 22% of the accessible information on assets like towers; Terrestrial Capture can collect the other 88% from the ground.

Terrestrial Capture:

360° video recording has increased the productivity and reduced the time of capturing visuals. Now, huge areas can be recorded at walking speeds. An individual can wear a 360 camera fixed to a hard hat or pole and walk the job site to record the campus. The process is quick and easy.

A Quick and Cost Effective Method

Over time, you can save money by frequently capturing and updating your company’s facility information. As buildings change, data loses its value. DTS allows you to capture, share, annotate, asset tag, report, and manage your company’s physical conditions.

Having all the information in one place, permits your entire organization to acquire asset and facility information whenever they need it. DTS is accessible from anywhere.

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Written in collaboration with
our Partners at Visual Plan.