We have started our field activities! HumanTech team members from Ricoh International, Naska.AI, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and the University of Kaiserslautern (TUK) have captured data in an empty former hospital in Weingarten, Germany, to start building a unique multi-sensor dataset and develop a digital inventory.
They detected the site on the same day, under very similar weather and lighting conditions, using experimental devices and terrestrial scanners.
We will use this information to evaluate different devices and provide training and testing data to generate Dynamic Semantic Digital Twins (DSDTs).
*Video clip captured with a Naska.AI robot and images captured with the Ricoh Theta 360° camera.
A new breed of Dynamic Semantic Digital Twins
One of the innovations we are working on to drive the digitalisation of the construction industry is the development of an entirely new breed of DSDTs for construction sites.
They will allow for the simulation of the current state of a construction site in detail, both geometrically and semantically, based on an extended Building Information Modelling (BIM) formulation containing all relevant structural and semantic dimensions (BIMxD). These will be a standard reference for all human workers, engineers and autonomous machines.
It is one of the technological solutions that will ultimately enable us to create a safer and more efficient industry and accelerate the sustainable transition in construction.
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