GEC NEWS WIREThe Metaverse technology is rapidly expanding, with companies across several industries preparing for the virtual world. While Metaverse technology represents a comprehensive virtual world, digital twin is an exact replica of a physical asset, a machine, a vehicle, or a device and can be created through BIM or Lidar Scanning. Digital twins can be considered one of the building blocks of the metaverse, augmenting the physical world and making it accessible from the digital realm.
Omnix sees commercial opportunities across industries such as Manufacturing, Automotive, Retail and Ecommerce, Smart Architecture and Industrial IoT. In the manufacturing industry, for example, Digital Twin solutions can be used to create virtual copies of entire workshops and plants to easily identify flaws and visualise the production process. With this capability, manufacturing industries can design, manufacture, process, and maintain the production processes more efficiently.
In the Retail and eCommerce sector, digital twins in the metaverse allows people to shop in the virtual space where data is updated in real time via the Digital Twin technology. Smart Architecture also utilises the technology to manage resources and map out a city’s area, including predicting and managing carbon footprints and coming up with innovative ways to improve the quality of life of a city’s residents.
The technology is becoming embedded in building and manufacturing processes and is seeing significant value in the operations and maintenance phase of systems and products. Omnix sees an increasing demand for skills in this domain. Each of these broad lifecycle areas have specialised talent requirements, thus there is a need for technologists with a variety of skills is clear.
The channel partner community in the AEC, Oil and Gas and manufacturing space understand the advantages of 3D BIM data over 2D drawings. Hence digital twins as an extension of BIM is raising the bar for channel partners and will enable them to explore the vast opportunities it offers.
Solutions for digital twins
Omnix offers Unity Reflect for Autodesk Revit which is a design review and coordination solution that connects all project members and allows them to collaborate in real-time irrespective of location, device or model size. This enables faster decision making with effective results throughout the building lifecycle.
Unity Reflect for Autodesk Revit is a Business Information Management software. With BIM being made mandatory across some countries and cities, it helps designers and engineers to transfer Revit models in real-time 3D experiences. These can be viewed in AR and VR and helps transfer BIM metadata to real-time 3D.
The software is also capable of improving design reviews and coordination while allowing scalability to an unlimited number of projects, clients, and collaborators in real-time simultaneously.
Omnix also offers VisualLive apps and integrated plugins, which allow users to take their large BIM models to HoloLens and mobile devices within a few minutes of the process with just a few clicks.
Unity Digital Twin solution allows users to be prepared and equipped to make data-informed decisions, and monitor and manage operations of an existing facility, site, or system. Users can identify potential issues, make improvements, and anticipate future operations based on visualised designs, simulations, real-time data collection, and IoT predictive maintenance. The solution also enables upskilling of the workforce to improve information retention with hands-on immersive training, onsite or remote.
Data about an object is required by a Digital Twin to represent a virtual model that mimics behaviours or states of real-world events and hardware, and software components form an essential component of building an end-to-end digital twin solution.
Industrial use cases
Omnix believes digital twins is not limited to a particular industry and has uses across many industries. Other than its uses in industrial plants, Digital Twin is important in Geographical Information System as it interconnects information, systems, models, and behaviours with spatial context, creating holistic digital representations of environments, assets, networks, and cities.
More importantly, Digital Twin has become popular in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry which includes building and infrastructure projects. It integrates real-time data from a built asset with its digital representation to create insights across the project lifecycle. Omnix is focused on this technology because Digital Twin is not just a hype. It solves major challenges in both design and operations for our clients.
The technology has saved end-users and project teams countless hours updating models in the construction industry. Analog, unclassified, and disconnected data is often an insoluble challenge for owners and operators to monitor, manage, and fine-tune their asset. The end user community is keen on implementing this technology, and government bodies and municipalities are headed towards its adoption which will create a positive impact across all sectors.
Omnix’s digital transformation services range from simple 2D, 3D, BIM and capturing of physical assets in Construction and Oil and Gas projects, to projects in facility management. Solution offerings include Autodesk, TeamViewer, Vuzix, Faro, Unity, Chaos, Lumion, Adobe, Oracle, Bluebeam and GTX.
Snapshot
- Digital twins can be considered one of the building blocks of the metaverse.
- Digital twins augments the physical world, making it accessible from the digital realm.
- Each of the broad lifecycle areas have specialised talent requirements.
- There is a need for technologists with a variety of skills.
- Channel partners in architecture and engineering, construction, oil and gas, manufacturing, understand advantages of 3D BIM data over 2D drawings.
- Digital twins as an extension of BIM is raising the bar for channel partners.
Omnix is preparing to enter the Metaverse solution space by leveraging vendor partner relationships in mixed reality and its digital twin building skills.
