The Democratization of 3D Scanning By Keith Lay, Director of Content at Clirio Technologies From CAD to photogrammetry to LiDAR, engineers of all disciplines acquire, process, and share 3D data on a daily basis. Historically, the creation of this 3D data has been the purview of specialists. This has been especially true of 3D and LiDAR scanning of project sites […]
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Lidar News had the opportunity to interview Georg Schroth, Co – Founder and NavVis CTO concerning the recently released NavVis VLX wearable mapping system. 1. Please provide a brief bio and overview of your history with NavVis. My name is Georg Schroth, and I’m the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer here at NavVis. We established the company in 2013 to […]
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Cintoo and Aize collaborate to optimize digital transition to Digital Twin programs Aize, a provider of digital twin software for heavy-asset industries, and Cintoo, a renowned provider of reality capture solutions, have announced a collaboration aimed at elevating industry performance. Reality Capture technologies such as 3D laser scanning are often used to provide a foundational layer for capturing the actual condition […]
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Bentley Systems Solution Experts to Discuss Metaverse and 3D/4D Digital Twin Visualization During NVIDIA GTC, March 20-23 Bentley Executives Will Be Available for Press Interviews What: Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, invites you to attend sessions hosted by Bentley solution experts during NVIDIA GTC, an online event to be held March 20-23, 2023. They will share how […]
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Hexagon adds speed, scalability and automation to digital twin creation with the acquisition of LocLab Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, today announced the acquisition of LocLab, a leader in 3D digital twin content creation. LocLab’s proprietary technology, enabled by a high degree of automation using proven workflows and artificial intelligence, […]
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Becoming a Smart City For the first time in history there are more people living in cities than in rural areas; this trend is accelerating at breathtaking speed in China and India. The UN predicts that by 2050 two-thirds of the world’s population will live in an urban area. That adds up to nearly seven billion people – just one […]
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Bentley Education Announces New Student Contest:The Digital Twin Design Challenge EXTON, Pa. – March 24, 2022 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, (Nasdaq: BSY) the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced Bentley Education’s Digital Twin Design Challenge—a student contest that provides an opportunity to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with the popular Minecraft video game. Digital twin technology is set to […]
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3D Smart Cities with LiDAR Since its emergence more than a decade ago, digital twin technology has developed into a complex and comprehensive technical system that supports the construction of new smart cities. It is also an advanced model for the continuous innovation of smart urban development and a future form of modernization of the combined “virtual and real” world. […]
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AMC Bridge Shares Highlights of Its Live Webinar: Digital Twin—Bridging the Gap Between Vision and Reality. What Do Сlients Really Want? Waltham, MA—Currently, digital twin technology is considered a powerful tool for modeling scenarios, identifying issues before they happen, and enabling better decision making that improves the overall customer experience. Still, many stakeholders are unsure of how to begin to […]
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Using Drone LiDAR and Photogrammetry to Create a Digital Twin Thompson Engineering used the mdLiDAR1000HR and mdMapper1000DG to survey the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park and create a digital twin. Rome, NY- In these 4 exciting new episodes of Down to Earth, Thompson Engineering, a proven leader in planning design, construction, and response solutions, utilizes drone Photogrammetry and LiDAR technology […]
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3D LASER SCAN REVEALS CHRIST THE REDEEMER AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE Geospatial mapping specialist GeoSLAM has produced a never-before-seen digital twin of the inside of the world-famous Christ the Redeemer statue, before its 90th birthday restoration work begins. In 2019, it was visited over 2 million times with people from all over the globe travelling to admire the […]
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LandScope Engineering Creates Digital Twin Providing a Single View of All Survey Data for Royal Holloway, University of London to Improve Collaboration and Reduce Costs Estates Team houses multidiscipline survey data in a single view, including legacy and newly captured asset information LandScope Engineering was tasked with conducting mobile surveying of the entire campus for a single view of […]
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Bentley Systems Becomes Founding Member of Digital Twin Consortium Deepens Collaboration with Industry, Government and Academic Members to Advance Interoperability of Digital Twins EXTON, Pa. – December 15, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, has elevated its participation in the Digital Twin Consortium by becoming a founding member. Having been a groundbreaker member since day one […]
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The Cohesive Companies Announces the Acquisition of Professional Construction Strategies Group Ltd. (PCSG) Will expand digital twin advisory services globally and across infrastructure sectors EXTON, Pa. – October 19, 2020 – The Cohesive Companies, a digital integrator investment of the Acceleration Fund of Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced its acquisition of Professional Construction Strategies […]
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European Investment Bank provides funding of €20 million to NavVis as part of the Investment Plan for Europe Funds of €20 million to cement NavVis’ position as global leader in digital twin technology. Financing by EU bank is provided under Investment Plan for Europe. The European Investment Bank (EIB) and NavVis GmbH announced today the signing of a contract which […]
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A Raffi Holzer, Founder of AVVIR thought he knew exactly where his career path was going to take him, but then he spent a summer at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Lab where he learned about point clouds, structure from motion, and various civil engineering, construction processes. The groundwork was laid. Background After the summer internship Raffi returned to pursuing his […]
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NAVVIS RAISES $35.5M TO ACCELERATE GLOBAL EXPANSION AND MEET RISING ENTERPRISE DEMAND FOR DIGITAL TWIN TECHNOLOGY The indoor spatial intelligence platform hundreds of top manufacturing enterprises use to digitize their industrial facilities is set to accelerate growth as the demand for digital twin solutions intensifies SUMMARY NavVis, the leading global provider of indoor spatial intelligence solutions for enterprises, today announced […]
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A confluence of technologies enables “Going Digital” with project digital twins and performance digital twins for infrastructure engineering. LONDON, U.K. – The Year in Infrastructure 2018 Conference – 16 October 2018 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, today announced the forthcoming availability of iTwin™ Services, digital […]
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Governments are beginning to mandate that underground infrastructure mapping be carried out as national policy. Underground infrastructure mapping of utilities and other infrastructure is one of the major challenges in creating a digital twin at the municipal, regional, and national level. LiDAR reality capture of the above-ground ground features simultaneously with ground penetrating radar (GPR) scans of subsurface infrastructure at […]
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