Beyond Reality. Digital Reality’s Next Frontier

Author:Monica Miller Rodgers

Hexagon’s Geosystems Division President Juergen Dold presentedBeyond Reality. Digital Reality’s Next Frontier6月1亚搏苹果app2日，在HXGN LIVE的六边形数字解决方案会议上，在美国内华达州拉斯维加斯的威尼斯宴会厅举行。

在GeoSystems Track的这一主要活动中，Dold探索了可用于数字化的无限机会。他介绍了整个星球可以数字化的想法和案例研究，他揭示了一个从未见过的可能性世界，其中万物都是机器可读并受算法的力量的约束。

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Dreams do come true

Dold使用沃尔特·迪斯尼（Walt Disney）的著名名言，通过讨论了灵感。Where does it come from? How can inspiration be turned into reality? What is possible?

If you can dream it, you can do it.
- 沃尔特迪斯尼

Examples included Leonardo DaVinci’s dream of flight and NASA’s dream to reach the moon.

“在地理系统，我很幸运，我与许多梦想家一起工作，这些梦想家不仅挑战现状，而且使梦想成真。”said Dold.

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Beyond mapping

转换发生在机载mapping business, 5D digital realities are not only possible but becoming accessible to everyone. Dold exemplified this by providing a historical timeline, detailing the century it took to convert from film to digital cameras, from analog plates to pixels.

“This transformation unleashes the power and potential to think in different dimensions and completely new scales,”said Dold.“Data sets have taken over, fostering not only new levels of automation but also new business models, providing the opportunity to expand the ecosystems.”

As an example of this expanding ecosystem, Dold showcased theHxGN Content Program。Providing quality airborne imagery data on a subscription service, the Program demonstrates society’s move to a sharing economy through Content as a Service (CaaS). Dold provided three reasons for this transformation:

1. Accurate, high-resolution and updated data tailored to specific needs
2. Online streaming to improve access
3. Affordability of the service through the sharing business model

Moving forward, the airborne imagery in the Program is being provided to startup companies to further develop and test Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. This drives added value to the mapping process, enabling applications such as autonomous vehicles and available parking throughout cities by way of high-definition 3D digital models.

“We don’t know how far AI will take us, but we’re convinced that higher resolution data with ever more powerful algorithms accelerate the accurateness and results these algorithms will bring us,”said Dold.“For those who are in mapping, they completely understand how much automation we can get in these mapping processes.”

Dold expanded on these processes with a focus on sensor fusion by unveiling datasets of Las Vegas, Seattle and Lucerne, Switzerland. With most realistic flythrough, the cities were captured with theLeica CityMapper, fusing LiDAR and imaging technology to provide detailed cityscapes down to the exact imaging of the trees. Underneath the city streets, pipes were also revealed in the datasets with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) technology.

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超越采矿

Moving from a bird’s eye view of cities, Dold dived into the depths of mines to speak on technologies increasing the safety of sites around the world. By digitising mines, they become more reliable, effective and efficient. With a 50-year history in the mining industry, Geosystems has developed digital solutions to advance the business and keep miners safer.

Launching one of those solutions onstage, Dold unveiled theHxGN MineProtect Operator Alertness System Light Vehicle (OAS-LV)and explained how 65 per cent of all open-pit mining incidents are related to fatigue, the inspiration for this new safety-enhancing technology. Sensing the openness of a driver’s eyes in the cab of a vehicle, the OAS-LV sounds a real-time alert, both inside the cab and back at the control centre, if signs of fatigue are detected. By digitising the driver’s face and using analytics, the data is fed into an Internet of Things (IoT) environment with location-based information to reduce fatigue-related accidents by 85 per cent.

“[The OAS-LV] is the perfect example of when we speak about making the world machine readable and creating critical information with analytics … saving lives and costs,”said Dold.“每个矿山都应该有效，这就是我们使用数字解决方案培养的。此外，我们通过急剧改善安全性而超越了有效的采矿。”

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Beyond construction

Returning to middle earth, when discussing the construction industry, Dold focused on the ecosystem of buildings. Seeing the opportunity in the challenge, he explained how digitalisation can take this underserved industry to the next level with digital solutions for the entire lifecycle of a building.

“施工不是单人的工作，”he explained.“It’s not about digitalising your employees; it’s about digitalising the entire process that brings perfection and efficiency for your project.”

Dold went on to share several new technologies that are supporting the whole process, the entire lifecycle from planning to renovation. He started with theLeica DSXandIDS GeoRadar Opera Duoutility detection solutions in the planning phase. Using GPR technology, the DSX and Opera Duo make the invisible visible. With an array of software selections to use in combination, safety and efficiency are increased when construction and utility professionals can precisely locate assets below the ground and plan operations to avoid striking them.

Next in the construction phase, theLeica iCON iCT30construction layout tool was showcased by Dold for its seamless connection of design to real-world building. The unique technology predicts the path of the construction professional, preventing errors and increasing time savings.

In the commissioning phase,Multivista imagery has now been integrated with the Leica BLK3D handheld imager。这些合并技术的施工进度文档工作流程提高了对建筑团队的认识，以及需要更好地理解和验证现场发展的承包商。

For renovation, theC-Thrueconcrete scanner enables construction professionals to see through walls for cables, rebar and other potential strike risks. Increasing safety and efficiency, the C-Thrue converts the insides of walls into digital models using Augmented Reality (AR) to display results.

Finally, for the operation phase, launching on stage, Dold shared one of two of the newest members of the popular Leica BLK family. With a focus on expanding the ecosystem in the building market, the newLeica BLK247is an autonomous surveillance solution to make buildings machine readable and subject to analytics. Providing continuous edge computing enabled 3D reality capture capabilities, the BLK247 provides 3D situational awareness for in and around buildings. With applications in also public safety and smart manufacturing, this new digital solution creates awareness whether objects are left behind, moved from one location to another and many more 3D change-related events in the observed space.

“It’s a beginning of a journey …. And we are very excited to extend this reach and new ecosystems we may have not touched before,”said Dold.“These are exciting times.”

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除了测量之外

The year 2019 marks the200th anniversary of Geosystemsserving the surveying field. From the 1819 beginnings of the company Kern to the 1921 founding of Wild Heerbrugg to the 1990 formation of Leica Geosystems to the 2005 acquisition by Hexagon, the organisation has a long history of revolutionsing and innovating the world of survey.

“今天，我们的投资组合是一套丰富的，完整的无限连接的调查解决方案，可以使数据起作用。”said Dold.

然后他继续解释了如何Leica Infinity软件将所有地理系统调查解决方案从现场连接到办公室。用户能够将其业务能力从传统，准确的调查实践扩展到基于整个电台，激光扫描仪和成像仪器的传感器的高级现实捕获技术。亚博ag真人规律亚博5分钟快三

Reviewing a history of fusing technologies, such as LiDAR and imaging, laser scanning and distance measurement, wearable and Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) technology, Dold unveiled the second newest member of the BLK family. TheLeica BLK2GO手持成像激光扫描仪玫瑰from the stage with the BLK series signature green light band as if by magic.

“With this BLK2GO we fulfill a dream to place reality capture in the palm of your hand,”said Dold.“这不是艺术品吗？我们的工程和设计团队的一件艺术品是为了使这个高科技解决方案在我们的行业中真正无与伦比的外观……如此小的技术进入如此小的设备。”

TheLeica BLK2GOhandheld imaging laser scanner brings four key elements together in one instrument:

1. Sensor fusion
2. Mobility
3. Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
4. Simplicity-driven design

Combining technologies, such as visual inertial navigation with LiDAR-based navigation, the BLK2GO orients itself as it is moved throughout the most challenging environments to create a 3D map. This instrument further democratises reality capture to enable more professionals to digitalise their own worlds and, in turn, making them machine readable for limitless possibilities.

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Beyond reality

Returning to Disney’s famous quote, Dold closed his keynote with a charge to the audience to become inspired, move beyond the realm of what is thought possible, and achieve the impossible. When the world becomes machine readable and subject to the power of algorithms, the potential of thousands of new companies and millions of new ideas will be unleashed.

“We have found … ways to break through limits, to go beyond today’s reality, to create a new reality,”总结了。“Dream your dreams, how you can foster digitalisation in your businesses. Never forget, if you can dream it, you can do it.”