REMOTE DIMENSION
Year: 2023 | Promoters: MINISTERIO DE INDUSTRIA, COMERCIO Y TURISMO / PLAN DE RECUPERACIÓN, TRANSFORMACIÓN Y RESILIENCIA / NEXT GENERATION EU
Firms: BIM6D / Smartech Cluster / Cactus IoT / IAAC / Parc Tauli – I3PT / Catalonia BIO & Health Tech
PROJECT EXPLANATION
The REMOTE DIMENSION project proposes an ecosystem of digital services and solutions to facilitate technical inspections of buildings and infrastructures, facilitate the integration of new generation technologies that allow the automation of maintenance work for issues, reviews, work orders, approvals and collaborative work flows in on-site and remote inspection.
Real-time positioning of the operators who carry out the inspections, as well as the equipment to be managed, the integration of the inspections in a mobile application, augmented reality technology, and the integration of all results in a DigitalTwin platform (POWERBIM) on the web with BIM environments and point clouds from the digitization of assets.
Once the inspections of the operators are automated, it is intended to use unmanned vehicles, in this case a Rover, to reproduce the route and the main actions carried out by the operator, just to automate repetitive tasks for maintenance inspections.
To carry out automated remote inspections we implement POWERBIM digitaltwin platform combined with the use of mobile devices, augmented reality, IoT sensors, scanners, rovers, to carry out these inspections. This combination of cyber-physical technologies will involve the use of a digitaltwin ecosystem for remote and automated inspection of building or infrastructure assets.
The project consists of two phases:
In PHASE 1 we propose a digitaltwin ecosystem for the remote and automated inspection of assets and infrastructures, in PHASE 2 we propose the use of artificial intelligence systems on that ecosystem, as well as the use of other autonomous inspection technologies such as the use of drones, to evaluate other remote inspection options that can reach locations and systems that are difficult to access, in addition to the design and implementation of augmented reality glasses.
PHASE 2 of the REMOTE DIMENSION project proposes, beyond a continuity of development work to digitize the technical inspection processes of buildings for maintenance of equipment and systems, its evolution to achieve maximum automation of the inspection processes, so that we can generate automated incidents based on processes that we will already implement in PHASE 1.
AUTOMATED DIGITALIZATION:
In this project we have used multiple technologies combined to generate an accurate BIM model for technical spaces:
- LIDAR laser scanning to create point cloud of the installations
- PHOTOGRAMMETRY and VIDEOS that being captured by smartphones, we have created automated 3d models using NERF technology, this technology allows to create a 3d model automatically from videos using ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
INDOOR REAL TIME POSITIONING:
we have been able to integrate rover paths into BIM models thanks to the use of Ultra Wide Band IoT positioning technology. Through triangulating the relative positions of a receiving device located on the rover with “anchor” devices placed at different positions within a workspace, we obtain absolute distances from the anchors to the monitored object. By knowing the X, Y, Z positions of the anchors and the absolute distances to the receiver, we have developed a service that monitors these positions and obtains the exact position, with a margin of error of 2-3cm. This allows us to simulate the rover’s movement within the context of a BIM model
REMOTE ISSUES : MOBILE APP WITH AR
We have create an mobile app able to create issues from the data collected on site (sensors, indoor positioning, pictures…) and send the issue to the digitaltwin platform (POWERBIM)
Also, the user on site will be able to load bim assets in augmented reality through the app so the issues can be located directly in the object so there is a direct association between object and issue.