London, United Kingdom:
At the 2022 Year in Infrastructure Conference, Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software program firm, in the present day introduced new capabilities of its iTwin Platform, considerably extending the scope and interoperability of infrastructure knowledge that engineering corporations and owner-operators can use to create and leverage digital twins in design, development, and operations workflows.
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iTwin Experience. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
The new iTwin Platform capabilities will energy Bentley Infrastructure Cloud, a set of options that span the end-to-end infrastructure lifecycle and worth chain, encompassing ProjectWise, SYNCHRO, and AssetWise, unified and made interoperable by Bentley’s infrastructure schemas.
iTwin Experience is a brand new cloud product to empower owner-operators’ and their constituents’ insights into vital infrastructure by visualizing and navigating digital twins. Significantly, iTwin Experience accelerates engineering corporations’ “digital integrator” initiatives to create and curate asset-specific digital twins, incorporating their proprietary machine studying, analytics, and asset efficiency algorithms. iTwin Experience acts as a “single pane of glass,” overlaying engineering expertise (ET), operations expertise (OT), and data expertise (IT) to allow customers to visualize, question, and analyze infrastructure digital twins of their full context, at any stage of granularity, at any scale, all geo-coordinated and totally searchable.
Additional iTwin merchandise embody:
iTwin Capture, for capturing, analyzing, and sharing actuality knowledge, allows customers to simply create engineering-ready, excessive decision 3D fashions of infrastructure belongings utilizing drone video and survey imagery from any digital digicam, scanner, or cellular mapping gadget. Infrastructure digital twins of any present belongings can accordingly begin with actuality modeling, fairly than requiring a BIM mannequin. iTwin Capture affords the highest-fidelity and most versatile technique of capturing actuality to function the digital context for surveying, design, monitoring, and inspection processes.
iTwin IoT, for buying and analyzing sensor knowledge, allows customers to seamlessly incorporate Internet of Things (IoT) knowledge created by sensors and situation monitoring units.Infrastructure IoT can be utilized successfully for real-time security and danger monitoring in operations and development actions, together with to measure and visualize environmental modifications, structural motion, or deterioration for situation evaluation, upkeep scheduling, and to immediate precautionary interventions. By securely incorporating real-time knowledge at scale from amongst lots of of sensor varieties, iTwin IoT will increase the worth of engineering and geotechnical knowledge.
Bentley’s Engineering Applications, Powered by iTwin
In the 2022 Going Digital Awards, the proportion of finalists crediting iTwin reached 42%. Noting the sophistication and maturing of digital supply approaches, as evidenced by the 2022 finalists’ tasks, Bentley offered a broadening of its strategic priorities for iTwin, together with including “digital-twin native” benefits to its infrastructure engineering purposes.
In the keynote, Founder and CTO Keith Bentley described the evolution of iTwin from a set of open-source programming libraries to a platform-as-a-service utilized by Bentley and companions to develop, run, and lengthen purposes that use digital twin workflows. Bentley’s engineering purposes will subsequent benefit from iTwin capabilities on the desktop. Users will proceed to work with these purposes as they’re accustomed to, however alongside the standard ensuing .dgn file, the engineering purposes may also create and synchronize an iModel, Bentley’s specialised container to semantically align and federate infrastructure engineering knowledge inside digital twins. iModel and iTwin will allow customers to take part in data-centric workflows, together with for integration, validation of design intent, guidelines checking, conflict detection, element queries and reuse, high quality assurance, and digital-twin deliverables creation.
Keith Bentley mentioned, “It is clear to me that infrastructure digital twins are the future of our industry and our company. Our digital twin journey began four years ago with a series of open source projects to create cloud-native tools, called iTwin.js. It has evolved into the iTwin Experience that is the workhorse for digital twin solutions from Bentley and others. I’m very proud of the tremendous progress we and our users have made using the iTwin Platform, as evidenced in the current YII submissions. Phase 2 of our journey involves improving our existing desktop products using the same iTwin engine. Users of our MicroStation and engineering design and analysis applications will next gain new features that can make their projects more efficient, more connected, and the results more valuable. We can do that by augmenting, not replacing, their existing tools, workflows, file formats, and deliverables. The iTwin engine will run on the same desktop ‘in process’ with the design applications, synchronizing a local iModel and connecting to cloud services when and as necessary.”
Integration with Immersive 3D Environments
At the identical time, Julien Moutte, vice chairman of expertise, described the improved interoperability of the iTwin Platform, together with integration with 3D environments, comparable to Unreal, Unity, and NVIDIA Omniverse, to allow immersive experiences throughout a variety of units. “From the start, we created services in the iTwin Platform that allow software developers to align and federate infrastructure data from different sources. We are now opening the doors of the metaverse for those digital twins, enabling new use cases and immersive experiences. Our interoperability with game engines via USD, glTF, DataSmith, and 3DFT unlocks a whole new world of possibilities for application developers. We are excited to see what our users can achieve by combining such technologies, which are fundamental building blocks of the infrastructure metaverse.”
Describing the broadening ecosystem adoption of iTwin applied sciences, Moutte introduced that Adobe has licensed Bentley’s iTwin Capture for its Substance 3D Sampler utility, which allows designers to simply rework real-life photos right into a photorealistic floor or setting. Alexis Khouri, vice chairman, development, 3D and metaverse at Adobe, mentioned, “Bentley’s iTwin Capture capabilities in Substance 3D Sampler will help Adobe’s creative professional customers to populate their 3D experiences and save many hours (or even days) of 3D modeling time. Adobe’s strategic collaboration with Bentley will allow us to offer an easy-to-use and state-of-the-art 3D capture solution for 3D artists and designers of all levels.”
In a performance-redefining breakthrough, Bentley has developed a brand new iTwin Platform service that permits software program builders and digital integrators to stream digital twins into Unreal Engine, the main recreation engine from Epic Games, to create immersive experiences for fly-throughs and multi-user collaboration.
“Infrastructure digital twins are becoming fundamental building blocks of virtual worlds that empower people to interact, collaborate, and solve problems together,” mentioned Marc Petit, vice chairman, Unreal Engine Ecosystem at Epic Games. “The seamless workflow and high performance that Bentley offers by integrating the iTwin Platform with Unreal Engine will help developers achieve new levels of immersion in complex visualizations and simulated experiences.”
Availability
iTwin Experience is in early entry; iTwin Capture and iTwin IoT can be found now. iTwin Experience incorporates capabilities from OpenCities Planner. iTwin Capture incorporates capabilities from ContextCapture and Orbit 3DM. iTwin IoT incorporates capabilities from the sensemetrics platform and Vista Data Vision. To discover out extra, go to www.bentley.com.
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iTwin Experience. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
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iTwin IoT. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
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iTwin Capture. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
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About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software program firm. We present modern software program to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining each the worldwide economy and setting. Our industry-leading software program options are utilized by professionals, and organizations of each measurement, for the design, development, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial amenities. Our choices embody MicroStation-based purposes for modeling and simulation, ProjectWise for undertaking supply, AssetWise for asset and community efficiency, Seequent’s main geoprofessional software program portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure digital twins. Bentley Systems employs greater than 4,500 colleagues and generates annual revenues of roughly $1 billion in 186 international locations.
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