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The construction and infrastructure space has been utilizing reality modeling – or reality capture – for years now as the value of having these accurate 3D visualizations has become increasingly clear. Additionally, as the sensors for capturing this data have become increasingly smaller without sacrificing power, tools like drones have been utilized to improve the process of capturing the reality modeling data. For a structure like a dam, for instance, it is significantly safer to use a UAV to capture data for the structure than having a person with a handheld or tripod scanner try to capture it. This, as one would expect, was a use case that was discussed frequently at this year’s Commercial UAV Expo.
Of course, capturing that data is only one part of the process for these and other industries. The real value comes when you’re able to process the reality modeling data to create that model, and then from there to be able to derive key insights into your asset, be it for renovation, maintenance, or any other use case. Today, there are a number of software options for end users to manage both their flight operations for drones on these projects as well as processing and analyze the data that comes from these flights.
Recently, Geo Week News hosted a webinar sponsored by Bentley Systems entitled Transforming Captured Data into Actionable Insights, which covered exactly this topic. The hour-long discussion featured speakers from both Bentley and Drone Harmony and included discussion about what their companies offer those in this space while touching on some other broad topics from the space. The speakers featured were:
Arnaud Durante, Product Manager II, iTwin Services – Reality Modeling, Bentley
David Adjiashvili, CTO & Co-Founder, Drone Harmony
Adam Saciuk, COO, Drone Harmony
You can follow the link below for free access to the on-demand recording of the webinar, which also includes the slides from the companies’ presentations.
The first portion of the conversation gave the speakers a chance to discuss what their respective products add to the industry and how they can help end users who are looking to take advantage of reality modeling data. For Durante’s part, that meant focusing largely on Bentley’s iTwin platform, and specifically iTwin Capture. He talked about the different ways the platform can be used, honing mostly in on the cloud option.
As he explained, there are three key components to the portfolio: Modeling the data, managing the data, and analyzing it, with the latter portion just now being rolled out in the U.S. and U.K., with the rest of the world coming later. Diving a little deeper, the analyzing portion includes some automated features to extract key insights from raw and processed data, cutting down on what can often be tedious and time-consuming work.
After Durante’s presentation, Adjiashvili and Saciuk teamed up for a similar discussion of what Drone Harmony can add to the process for flight operators and data teams. The duo noted that, at a high level, their software is meant to generate trusted data for projects based primarily on drones, and specifically talked a lot about drone dock systems. They spoke at a higher level first, discussing the value that is added by utilizing drones on project sites before getting into some of the specifics with their platform.
That value came from a three-step process that covers the entirety of collecting and analyzing the data. The Drone Harmony team gave viewers a peek into how their flight management platform works, including planning and executing that flight, as well as the ability to upload that data into the aforementioned iTwin platform.
After the presentations, the trio left some time for questions and answers from the audience, which covered a wide variety of topics. Among the points they discussed in depth during this segment were the logistics to setting up this kind of system for companies who may not have gotten to that point quite yet, the differences between processing in the cloud versus on desktop, data security, the types of insights being derived by these systems, and more.
Remember, you can access a free, on-demand recording of this webinar to dive deeper into this discussion and receive the insights from these three industry experts first-hand, as well as gain access to the slides used during their presentations. Just follow the link below for your free access today.
