An Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), as the name suggests, works as a brain for all smart solutions implemented across a city — be it a surveillance system, smart traffic management, waste management, utility management, environmental sensors, public information system, etc.

Responsible development requires robust spatial information that is refined and constantly updated. In addition, foresight and problem-solving skills are required to put data to good use. This challenge has made Geographic Information System (GIS) invaluable to the city ecosystem to integrate every aspect of a city from conceptualization and planning to development and maintenance. Combine GIS with Cloud Computing, Big Data, IoT, Data Visualization and other kinds of technologies, to help different stakeholders prepare for exigencies, coordinate and manage response efforts, and enhance the ongoing efficiency of city operations.

Hightopo’s HT for Web visualization platform integrated with GIS, supports loading geographic data from various kinds, such as 3D Tiles, Map Tiles, etc. Visualizing massive data such as POI(Point of Interest) Data, Traffic Data, Urban Infrastructure Data, etc.

The Smart City concept aims at developing a comprehensive system that uses geospatial data to enhance the understanding of complex urban systems and to improve the efficiency and security of these systems. This geospatial data concerns (i) the urban built environment such as infrastructure, buildings and public spaces, (ii) the natural environment such as biodiversity, green spaces, air quality, soil and water, and (iii) urban services such as transport, municipal waste, water, energy, health and education.

Environment Smart city planners can model potential buildings and predict short- and long-term impacts on the environment. Conservationists can choose where best to incorporate green spaces or plan conservation projects, as well as analyse air quality and spot its causes in different areas of the city.

Governance City agencies often use location technology to share data across silos and operate more efficiently. Smart city operation platform centralises the city’s open data and communicates with citizens about smart city initiatives.

Human Capital Strategists and business leaders can analyse the demographics of a city’s population and use that insight to plan improvements that attract specific talent.

Mobility and Transportation

GIS empowers the assets management and long-term plans improvements of the country’s traffic. Meanwhile, IoT-based applications can be used to optimise the flow of traffic in the city.

Combined GIS with building information modelling (BIM) technology, underground infrastructures can be undertaken by knowing the precise locations of them and, to safely weave new tunnels through the built environment.

Urban Planning City leaders, businesses, and architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms can see how a structure will look before they decide to build it, measuring views from a virtual apartment window or the shadow of a skyscraper on a local park. And Digital Twin and location data is come to help. Utilizing 3D models of their physical infrastructure and location data as a connective thread to experiment with virtual plans.

The Business Value of Smart Cities

The HT for Web GIS is intended to helping users integrated location information (GIS related) into their own projects, and reduce users’ learning and investment costs for GIS. Combined with the powerful visualization engine, enable superimposed display of different map tile data, oblique photography, 3D model, POI and other data; Combined with HT for Web BIM, enable the combination of BIM model and GIS Visual display; Combined with HT for Web 3D video fusion, to achieve real-time video fusion display in GIS scenes. The HT for Web GIS makes the visual display of GIS data richer, clearer and more intuitive, empowers users with data-driven insight.

Conclusion

Hightopo HT for Web GIS provides local government with tools to develop smarter cities and deliver better services to the community. As a collaborative platform, it enables government agencies to share spatial data to break through traditional data silos and build a more transparent organisation. Furthermore, the platform can be scaled to provide the tools for enterprise-wide data-driven decision making that improves management efficiency. Its mobility capabilities allow staff to access data any time, on any device, from anywhere to ensure enterprise data is always accurate and up-to-date.

As the core component of the power grid, the emergence of smart substations has changed the traditional substation operation and maintenance mode. Utilizing the digital twin 3D model and visualize the data in real-time or historically, digital transformation is becoming a standard rather than an exception by now.

In the power sector alone, getting enough data is a small part of the problem: getting the right data and knowing what to do with it is the biggest challenge. The electrical network digital twin is the core enabler for the decarbonization and decentralization of power infrastructures. Digitalization drives further development, as the consistent use of digital models and data opens numerous new opportunities, such as new service offerings and efficient grid operation with networked assets.

In this article, we illustrate the digital twin visualization system for a 500kV electrical substation by the Hightopo 3D Visualization solution. Build 3D models lightweight, establish dynamic digital substation, and get a multi-dimensional presentation of substation operation and maintenance scenarios. Enable real-time monitoring of substation operation status, and interconnection of operation and maintenance equipment, control systems, and information systems. Strengthen the full-state perception and control of substation equipment, enhance the ability to guarantee safe production in substations, and improve the level of lean management of operation and inspection.

Integrated GIS for Spatial Information

There are thousands of substations across a province, it is obviously impractical to use manual placement to illustrate each substation location. By integrated with Geographic Information System(GIS) to display rich spatial data, algorithms will be used to convert latitude and longitude coordinates into plane coordinates to dynamically generate substations location. The advantage of using GIS is that you can load more map details in Levels of Detail (LOD), and you can directly and accurately get the specific location of each substation.

Lightweight 3D Models

Hightopo Visualization is a web-based solution, considering the loading speed on a web browser, we recommend models total faces under three million. The lightweight 3D modelling technology is used to restore the appearance of infrastructures based on a CAD map, aerial view, and three-view drawing of the equipment at the substation site, which can be zoomed, panned, and rotated, and each device in the scene can respond to interactive events.

Monitoring & Management

Visualize multi-sourced data on 2D pannel through interactive bar chart, line chart, tables, etc. Data collection from generators, substations, microgrids, and industrial and building loads can be combined with many other data sources to inform grid operators about the overall situation. This real-time data can be integrated into GIS along with weather and smart meter data. Breaking down the data silos.

When the devices monitoring sensor detects unusual actives, for instance, reach the threshold, the backstage pushes the status parameters to the forestage, and the forestage shows the corresponding device icon in the position according to the status parameters. Combine with artificial intelligence analysis and other technologies to analyze historical and real-time data for predictive & prescriptive maintenance and operation.

Visualization of Electricity Flow

Through 3D visualization technology, display all the loop directions of voltage transformer and current transformer power supply, combined with scientific and technological sense elements to simulate the current flow, archiving the monitoring, measurement, control and adjustment for primary equipment (transformers, circuit breakers, isolating switches, etc.)

Heatmap(Thermal Map) Visualization

Utilizing a 3d heatmap to illustrate real-time data source from the temperature and humidity sensor in the transformer. The real-time temperature data of the current position can be displayed when the mouse is hovering over the position, which can more quickly and accurately locate the specific transformer component for the unusual overheat, timely response measures should be taken to efficiently solve or avoid uncontrollable problems.

Real-time Monitoring of Perception Data

Each type of sensor distributes points according to the actual installation position, and identifies the online monitoring points of primary equipment one by one. The sensor status of each point has a corresponding display effect, e.g. warnings status marked in red, and abnormalities status in a red flashing. When the mouse is over the sensor point, the real-time status information panel will be displayed. When the sensor point is clicked, it will show its detailed list to view the historical data and trend curve of the sensor. At the same time, you can conveniently switch to query historical sensor data and trend curves in other locations according to the menu.

Robot Inspection

Daily maintenance of substations requires a large number of inspectors to inspect the equipment, which is not only inefficient but also very dangerous, and severe weather such as high temperature, heavy rain, and heavy fog frequently occurs, which brings many obstacles to manual inspections. The intelligent inspection system that cooperates with outdoor inspection robots replaces manual inspections for autonomous monitoring. Through the intelligent inspection system, the alarm information is issued according to the alarm equipment, and the target location can be reached at the first time, and the inspection video and alarm information can be viewed in real-time. The staff can know in time and make a corresponding response. The use of robot inspection not only improves work efficiency, reduces the labour intensity of operation and maintenance personnel, and reduces operation and maintenance costs, but also effectively improves the safety monitoring and management of unattended substations.

Workforce Safety — Personnel Positioning

Track the position of the staff in real-time, and mark the position in the 3D scene according to the position information returned from backstage to monitoring the position of staff. According to the safe operation area(protective fence in the 3D scene) in the system, combined with the staff’s positioning information, to know whether they are working in the safe area, and if they exceed the safe area to a dangerous area by mistake, a safety alarm is issued to the operator.

Web SCADA

The power wiring diagram of the primary equipment of the substation displayed on the large screen of the main control room, the 2D configuration diagram drawn by the HT technology, can also be upgraded to a 3D configuration diagram, which is more impressive. The voltage and current in and out of the substation and the status of each primary device are displayed in the form of the 3D diagram, 3D animation so that the connection relationship is easy for the public to understand, even for those non-professionals individuals.

Industry Training

Training grid operators along with grid control staff on a dynamic digital twin replica with realistic scenarios mean that when serious faults occur, grid control centre staff will know how to work together as a coordinated team, and which generators and loads could help them avoid outages to maintain a comfortable margin of operational flexibility.

Transformer Assembly Animation

Through 3D virtual simulation of transformer assembly animation, it introduces the working principle and assembly process of transformer equipment, visually displays the composition and installation location of the main components of the transformer, and introduces its main characteristics with text descriptions, which is realistic and technological. This 3D visualization system independently developed by HT can be used as a simulation training material for on-site installation and maintenance of transformers, which can efficiently and conveniently for teaching transformer working principles and new employees training (VR supported).

VR Training

Using HT’s innovative 3D visual modelling techniques to build an interactive environment for isolation switchgear, providing a comprehensive and practical training experience, and better solving the many difficulties and problems faced by professional large-scale complex equipment in employee training. By controlling the operating panel of the isolation switch operating mechanism, the main knife gate, the left floor knife, the right floor knife and other components, staff can intuitively operate the equipment, understand its operation principle, and truly realize 3D interactive simulation demonstration training.

Mobility

Hightopo 3D visualization solution supports cross-platform browsing, which can be viewed by any mobile terminal. Even the operation and maintenance personnel who are not at the work station can also monitor through mobile phones or iPads. This not only reducing material and labour costs but also Improve workforce safety. Mobility is essential for edge grid site which likely has few or no staff on-site.

Conclusion

By transforming unstructured information into a smart digital asset, plant and grid operators are empowered to visualize, build, and manage power systems, sub-stations and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire life cycle. By using electric network digital twin, utilities are able to shape the operations and maintenance strategies of the future.

Hightopo HT for Web visualization solution increasing asset adaptability and maintaining system reliability while reducing material and labour costs in a critical balancing act and reality for many substation managers. H1elp to gain actionable intelligence and unlock new values of your substation data.

Solar power is clean, limitless and widely available. It’s also getting cheaper. But as with any large system with multitudes of parts, reliability is key. Digital can help. This article introduces a 3d visualization system to monitor the photovoltaic park using ht.js from Hightopo.

Hightopo independently developed a powerful 2D & 3D graphic rendering engine based on HTML5, provided a rich display format and effects for web visualization. Special focus on the Industrial Visualization, Digital Twin, Web SCADA.

3d visualize PV park

The concept of Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) refers to the integration of technology, — refers to the capacity of the photovoltaic (PV) system to be multifunctional — aesthetics — refers to the architectural appearance of the system — , and energy integration, meaning the capability of a PV system to interact with the building and district energy system to maximize the local use of electricity generated.

The BIPV systems can be divided into three main categories:

· PV modules, with specific characteristics, developed for building integration, with appealing features (such as colour, texture, shape, surface finishing, and light materials) conceived for integration in existing buildings.

· Mounting systems, to mount the PV modules on the building envelope, such as on facades, roof, and external devices.

· Energy systems, which link the PV modules to the building and district energy system to maximize the local use of the electricity generated, including storage, power conversion, power control, heating and cooling and e-mobility systems.

Weather Simulation

By utilizing satellite images, aerial views of the property, CAD drawings, on-site photos to create the 3d models, and by using different texture to simulate different seasons( spring, summer, autumn, winter), simulate different time(morning, noon, evening, night) and simulate weather(sunny, cloudy, raining, snowing).

Furthermore, HT visualization system supports integrated with weather data to enable automatic switching of environmental simulation content based on actual weather data.

Visualize Photovoltaic Effect

A standard solar panel (also known as a solar module) consists of a layer of silicon cells, a metal frame, a glass casing, and various wiring to allow current to flow from the silicon cells. Silicon is a nonmetal with conductive properties that allow it to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity. When light interacts with a silicon cell, it causes electrons to be set into motion, which initiates a flow of electric current. This is known as the “photovoltaic effect,” and it describes the general functionality of solar panel technology.

The scene is displayed in a sci-fi wireframe style, highlighting the equipment model, and showcasing the whole process of photovoltaic conversion from light energy to electric energy, power supply to equipment, and energy storage through the flow of lines.

EV Charging Point

Utilizing 3D animation and real-time data to monitor the operating status and real-time power of the EV charging point in the park. Data are visualized in a more intuitive way, for instance, we can determine whether there are vehicles in the current parking space, and the charging status can be simulated through the animation of line flow effects.

When the charging point fails, the corresponding model will be dyed in red colour with warning animation, so that the operators can get a better insight into what’s happing on the site and act faster to reduce the downtime.

Cleaning Robots Animation

Due to the photovoltaic effect, the deposit of dust on the surface of the panels will responsible for obstructing the integral access of sunlight to the system. Therefore, in order to maintain the photovoltaic panel's energy efficiency, using robots for cleaning panels becomes a good go for most solar park.

The cleaning robot is composed of brushes, motors(for brushes and wheels), wheels, photoelectric sensors, and aluminium pipe frame. The robot walks along with the PV panel, high-speed spinning brushes will dust off the surface for cleaning purpose.

VR Roaming Walkthrough

HT for web support drone view or first-person walking view to roaming walk through the park and It’s also VR supported. With the VR device, operators and maintainers will have an immersive experience to inspect the park and spot unusual status.

Hightopo HT for Web is a lightweight, cross-platform, responsive, fully interactive digital twin solution. Empower clients to turn real-time data into insights for better, faster decision making. As the nature of the web-based feature, there’s no need for plugins or downloads, it just works seamlessly on any modern browser & device. With more than 10 years of industry experience, we have collaborated with more than 1000 clients from various industries.

• Government (Local and Central)
• Transportation
• Financial Services (Bank, Insurance Agency)
• Telecommunications (Data Center)
• Energy and Utilities (Oil& Gas, Wind Energy)
• Health Service (Hospital)
• Education (Institute, University)
• Real Estate

The manufacturing industry has undergone significant revolutions, now the industry is entering the exciting Industry 4.0. It’s a transition powered by data and automation technology that could transform every step of the manufacturing process. The goal is to drive productivity and innovation and empower businesses in an integrated, data-driven manufacturing environment.

In this article, we illustrate the digital twin visualization system for an SMT assembling production line by the Hightopo 3D Visualization solution. Surface-mount technology (SMT) is a method for producing electronic circuits in which the components are mounted or placed directly onto the surface of printed circuit boards(PCBs).

By utilizing 3D models, users can visualize each piece of equipment, from screen printer, SPI machine, AOI machine, AGV, camera, fire safety equipment, AC and more. By connecting the IoT sensors, data can be collected and analysed and syn together in our visualization system.

Quality Data Visualization

Visualization dashboard — — Statistical Process Control（SPC） — — Quality data is collected and analysed that helps process engineers to improve the current process. The function allows for comparing data from the SPI and AOI systems to conduct parallel analysis. This makes it possible to identify and eliminate the causes of defects.

Assembling Line Visualization

A typical configuration for an SMT assembly process consists of the following automated machines connected in sequence: A Line Loader loads PCBs one-by-one from a stack onto the conveyor belt. A Screen Printer performs the application of the solder paste onto the board. Pick and Place machines select individual components from reels and place them onto the board. The boards are then forwarded to the Reflow Oven which consists of a conveyor belt moving inside a heated chamber. Here, the solder paste melts to form contacts.

Indoor Positioning System（IPS）

IPS refers to the technology that helps locate people and objects indoors. That location information is then fed into HT Visualization System to make the information useful.

Utilizing IoT 5G+, Bluetooth 5.0 and other technologies, and the help of intelligent base stations, wearable devices, the positioning coordinate data is transmitted to the front-end to illustrate the real-time positioning function of personnel and AGV cars. And HT also supports the drawing of historical running trajectories, which help managers analyze the rationality of the production line layout and make corresponding adjustments in time.

Surveillance Video Integration

HT uses the actual position of the on-site camera as a reference and places the model at the corresponding position in the 3D scene to simulate the real world scenario to solve the common issue regarding video surveillance integration and enhancing the value of video applications. Furthermore, use emerging video fusion technology to seamlessly embed video into the scene to truly restore the real scene of the scene.

Conclusion

With modern tools and simulations, new products are first produced virtually these days — offline on a digital twin of your SMT lines, without tests, and without having to interrupt valuable production operations. Long before the first board enters the line, you can define program parameters, teach components, generate setup and pick lists, calculate throughput times, and optimize entire production processes.

Virtual production creates reliability, drastically reduces non-productive activities, improves yields, and maximizes SMT line utilization.

Hightopo 2d&3d visualization solution provides visibility across the entire manufacturing pipeline as data is integrated and displayed through smart IoT technologies. It creates a connected, data-driven manufacturing environment that empowers faster problem diagnosis and informed decision-making.

In today’s challenging energy market hydropower operators face multiple challenges such as increasing price pressure with the rise of intermittent renewable energy, tighter regulations, ageing assets, experienced workforce turnover, new operating patterns, staff retention in remote locations, etc. Fortunately, digital technologies can help turn these challenges into opportunities, putting hydropower at the forefront of the energy transition.

Hightopo developed a powerful web-based 2D and 3D rendering engine which provides rich display effects for data visualization. With this, we provide hydro industry business with a lightweight, cross-platform, responsive, fully interactive digital twin solution. Helping the hydro industry land for a smooth digital transformation, utilizing the powerful 3d rendering engine and detailed and beautiful 3d models, we empower dam operators with an institutive and immersive visualization experience.

Different from the previous digital twin projects in sci-fi style, this dam visualization project adopts the poetic and painting style of ink painting and classical music and presents serious and boring projects through traditional Chinese ink paintings with profound artistic conception.

3D Walkthrough

HT powerful 3d rendering engine easily achieves 360-degree panoramic view. Get the virtual inspection and roam the entire water conservancy equipment from the flying perspective of the crane in the scene.

Safety Monitoring and Instrumentation

Dam Safety Monitoring and Instrumentation is a process of monitoring the condition of a dam to ensure public safety and the ongoing viable service of the dam to the community and industry.

The major areas that require monitoring are,

• leakage, deformation, pore pressure (seepage line) and response to earthquakes.

Instruments that are used for monitoring the following parameters:

• Leakage or seepage losses: V-notch weirs, drainage holes;
• Deformation (concrete): plumb lines and external reference points;
• Deformation (embankment): differential settlement gauges and external reference points;
• Uplift pressure: piezometer
• Earthquake: seismograph

The most important parameter for monitoring is leakage from the foundation rock. Following the initial filling of a newly constructed dam and when the dam level has stabilised at a constant level, then leakage is considered to be stable if the rate of leakage decreases gradually. If the rate of leakage is observed to gradually increase then the cause must be investigated. If the leakage rate increases abruptly, then this must trigger an urgent investigation.

Video Surveillance Integration

HT is a component library based on the HTML5 standard, which can seamlessly integrate various multimedia functions of HTML5 and support the integration of various video resources to form a unified video access platform. It can mark camera objects on a 2D or 3D map and associate its video signal source. The corresponding surveillance video can be retrieved by interacting in the scene.

Interaction on 3D Scene

• Drag the control panel on the left side to control the waterfall speed.
• Click the construction panel on the left side to switch the view to different dam construction.
• Click the dancing swallow to play/pause background music

BIM + GIS Leveraging Digital Twin

At present, most engineering and construction structures, inspection records, the monitoring information can not be associated with the actual spatial location. Only the seasoned veterans can fast and accurately find the related information. However, 3D visualization, BIM technology and GIS, bring great convenience to water conservancy dam management.

• Lightweight BIM

BIM model file is generally large and heavy, it is not conducive to running directly in the browser. HT offers an advanced feature to lightweight the BIM model, enable faster loading on the web.

• Utilizing GIS

GIS provides more information about terrain, buildings, facilities, etc. By superimposing and fusing multi-source data such as oblique photography data, vector data, 3D model data, and BIM data, GIS can organically combine the spatial location of objects in the real world with related attributes, thereby providing technical support for spatial decision-making and realizing visual expression. HT provides GIS integration and other related services to realize the 3D display of dam terrain scene data and further assist the visualization process of water conservancy dam projects.

Web Display / VR Supported

HT 3D visualization is a B/S (Browser / Server mode) structure application. with the lightweight models, users can access the project through any modern browser, from a PC, Pad, or smartphone, it just works seamlessly anywhere and any time and enable remote monitoring and management. Furthermore, HT visualization solution is VR supported, users can access the scene through VR devices, empower the hydro industry to manage and monitoring assets in an immersive way.

Conclusion

Dam safety monitoring and visualization are crucial for the hydro industry. Through the visualization of information, operation and maintenance managers can obtain first-hand information more intuitively and concretely, analyze the operation status of the dam and bedrock, and grasp the working form of the dam. Evaluate the safety status of the dam and provide evidence for finding abnormal signs of the dam.

Hightopo 3D visualization solution empowers the hydro industry to clearly and quickly locate monitoring equipment and facilities, and timely obtain basic monitoring information of relevant measuring points.

With more than 10 years of industry experience, Hightopo has collaborated with more than 1000 clients from various industries. From water conservancy, power, energy and other fields, Hightopo empowers industries for a smooth digital transformation.

Tokyo Olympics draw to a close this Sunday night after more than two weeks of competitions held amid extraordinary restrictions and mostly behind closed doors. The pandemic Olympics give us a thought, how we should improve stadium management? One of the answers is definitely Digital Twin.

How Digital Twins Enhance Large Event Spaces

Managing large event spaces, such as football stadiums and performance halls, comes with several challenges: ensuring security, responding to dynamic circumstances, controlling the influx of people, and providing the audience with a comfortable and entertaining experience.

check full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqgYlSHVr0k

Hightopo 3D Visualization solution is the best fit for these circumstances. By capturing data in and around the stadium, allowing us to create a virtual copy(Digital Twin) of the area that will be used to provide analytics and insight into the experience of attending a game there. This data will help stadium and venues facilities managers to identify potential problems, optimize sustainability and manage risk.

Web-based Lightweight 3D Model

Utilizing Hightopo powerful 3d graphic rendering engine to achieve this interactive 3D scene. The web-based visualization solution enables interactive events from any modern browser. The elements/ scenes can be zoomed, panned, and rotated. The lightweight models make sure a fast and immersive user experience.

Crowed / Traffic Monitoring

Hightopo visualization solution combines 3D model with 2D data visualization such as bar chart, line chart and data indicator to display the important data sourcing such as traffic, crowd density, regional congestion etc. Breaking down the data silos.

Combine with facial recognition and 5G technology, the visualization solution will leverage stadium security and management. With AI technology, the system can even predict the traffic and crowd density, so that venues managers can act before things go sideways and to effectively guide and evacuate the passenger that exceeds the carrying capacity of the stadium.

3D Heatmap Visualizations

Through the image recognition and analysis of multiple cameras, a complete heat map(thermal map) of the stadium can be formed. The heatmap provides an understanding of crowd density distribution, help in decisions such as the number of employees needed and managing assets such as lighting and cooling devices.

Immersive AR and VR Experiences

The use of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) is on the rise in large event venues, especially with the roll-out of 5G in event stadiums. AR and VR tools can help make the experience unforgettable, converting a one-time event attendee into a lifelong customer.

VR can provide a virtual tour of the entire venue to an immersive experience of the event. On the other hand, AR maps, which introduce geospatial awareness tapping into the users’ location coordinates, can be effective in guiding visitors to their seats, parking locations, and other spots within the event area.

Hightopo 3D models work seamlessly on VR and AR, the ht-vr.js plugin makes sure a smooth integration for your 3d scene to VR scene.

Surveillance Video Integration and Video Fusion

The digitization of information flow, coding compression, and open protocol enables a seamless connection between the intelligent network video surveillance system and the various subsystems in the security system, and realize management and control on Hightopo visual management platform.

Combined with video fusion technology, multiple surveillance videos can be fused, so that the originally fragmented video can be viewed in a panoramic view of the real three-dimensional scene, and the overall scene can be grasped from any angle required to help users quickly overview the overall situation. The 3d scene and the dome camera work together to accurately locate the target area to be tracked in the scene, and drive the pan-tilt to control and adjust the camera direction and focal length to achieve precise tracking.

Better Resource Efficiency

Minimizing operational costs and maximizing resource efficiencies are important objectives for building management. Digital twins — integrated with IoT sensors — enable data-driven decision-making, as they collect real-time data. Here are a few examples:

• Gathering data from sensors, digital twins improve energy efficiency by automatically turning systems on or off, or adjusting settings, based on need and finding the right level of resource usage at specific times to serve large crowds.
• Visibility into available parking stalls improves space management and also helps visitors not waste time and fuel finding an open spot.
• Better facility management practices can be implemented with multi-scenario testing and predictive asset maintenance.

Meticulous Planning for Emergencies

A huge concern in large event spaces is to ensure safety and be prepared for possible disasters. A digital twin event venue helps with disaster response. It can model entry and exit points, a large number of people who will exacerbate an emergency situation, and numerous other constraints and stress factors.

AR and VR technologies take disaster response training from classrooms to the ground, aiding in scenario testing, simulating disaster events, and guiding through possible solutions. During an emergency, heat map visualizations help monitor the shifting footfalls and come up with a corresponding evacuation plan.

While conventional approaches rely on experience, expertise, and intuition in planning events in large spaces and stadiums, the advanced digital twin technology relies on sensors, AR and VR tools, heat map visualizations, IPS to gather real-time data and perform simulations that can assist before and during the event.

Conclusion

Hightopo visualization solution converts all quantifiable aspects of a physical building into an evolving virtual replica, allowing owners, facility managers and built environment professionals real-time insights to strategize and optimize every aspect of a building’s operations.

• Insight into a building’s efficiency performance in real-time.
• Predicting potential failures in systems like HVAC, water and electrical.
• Providing project team with access to lookalike built and lookalike design models, which are constantly synced in real-time.
• Providing insight to a client to support ongoing structural enhancements.

Besides stadiums, Hightopo has had also done some projects that cover archives, exhibition halls and other smart buildings. Combined with GIS, BIM and other technologies to improve the efficiency of operation and maintenance personnel and the green and intelligent development of venues and exhibition halls.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) generate electric power by using mirrors (heliostat) to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a receiver and make it possible to achieve heat higher enough to turn water into steam. The pressure from water vapour drives a turbine connected to a generator producing electricity.

The solar thermal farm is usually large scale and in a remote area. It’s not easy in terms of maintenance and management. Fortunately, Hightopo lightweight web visualization solution — HT for Web can help. Get real-time monitoring operation status of each heliostat, sync data such as electric load conditions, equipment status and control, weather simulation, to reduce the operation cost and hazards of the outdoor operation, maintenance, management and control.

Lightweight Modelling

On-site photos, satellite images, bim files, designers will utilize them as reference and model each equipment lightweight, then import to 3d scene. HT powerful 3d rendering engine makes sure the massive models will still render faster and smooth on the web.

Weather Simulation

Sunlight is an indispensable fact of CSP management. HT visualization solution allows sync data from weather system, to simulate the sunlight in 3d scene and view the dynamic change of the sunlight in real-time or historical time periods. Data will trigger the corresponding weather animation, for immersive and vivid visualization.

Equipment Monitory and Management

HT for Web offers various kinds of interactive methods. The most fabulous part is HT for Web cross-platform capability, which means the mouse click, mobile touch, VR hit will all handle by one code function.

Integrated with heliostat, power tower and other equipment systems, data will be sync with 3d models and therefore trigger animation or data panels. For example, click the power tower on 3d scene to trigger the data panel which display the real-time data source from sensors from the power tower such as temperature, pressure, etc; When data exceed the threshold, the device will have an alarm animation such as dying in red and blink. This will greatly help operators to locate the issued equipment and act fast to avoid unnecessary downtime.

CSP v.s. PV — Integration for increasing Solar Power Penetration

Concentrated Solar Thermal systems (CSP), are not the same as Photovoltaic panels; CSP systems concentrate radiation of the sun to heat a liquid substance which is then used to drive a heat engine and drive an electric generator. This indirect method generates alternating current (AC) which can be easily distributed on the power network.

Photovoltaic (PV) solar panels differ from solar thermal systems in that they do not use the sun’s heat to generate power. Instead, they use sunlight through the ‘photovoltaic effect’ to generate direct electric current (DC) in a direct electricity production process. The DC is then converted to AC, usually with the use of inverters, in order to be distributed on the power network.

We also have an article which more in deep introduces PV farm visualization.

Conclusion

Hightopo offers the cutting-edge DigitalTwin visualization solution — HT for Web, empowers concentrated solar power plant and photovoltaics plant for better management. Helping deliver millions in efficiency savings and a massive reduction of carbon dioxide.

HT for Web brings great value enhancement to the power, energy and other industries. The lightweight, cross-platform, responsive, fully interactive feature help clients enter the path of the energy revolution and digital transformation.

Based on years of project experience and solid visual tech, we have cooperated with many well-known industries. Contact us to explore more possibilities!

Digital transformation is becoming a standard rather than an exception by now. Smart City management is now required more and more multi-dimension data fusion, data analytics and data mining. Especially required to leverage location-based analytics to connect people with information and technology, and help them improve their quality of life and make better choices.

Hightopo visualization solution integrated with related GIS (Geographic Information System) technology to drive further development, brings all aspects together and enables the consistent use of digital models and data to open numerous new opportunities, offer new service and efficient operation benefit the smart city ecosystem. Empowering businesses to gain a competitive advantage with location intelligence.

Smart City Lightweight 3D Modeling

• Drone Photography Modeling

Oblique aerial photograph is taken with the axis of the camera held at an angle between the horizontal plane of the ground and the vertical plane perpendicular to the ground. It’s a GIS technology that has developed rapidly in recent years. The aircraft or drone is equipped with multiple sensors to capture the ground objects from the front, back, left, right, and vertical five directions to quickly and efficiently obtain data information that truly reflects the ground conditions. Through a series of professional processing operations such as correction, adjustment, and multi-view image matching, to create a 3D model.

• BIM

*BIM *(Building Information Modeling) is the holistic process of creating and managing information for a built asset. However, since BIM file contains massive data and it’s usually too heavy on the web, Hightopo offers a BIM convert solution that allows users to select part of data so that the model will be lightweight and have smooth operation efficiency.

• Manual Modeling

It must be clarified that since models are the mapping and restoration of the real world, it depends on various data sources, including point cloud data, tilt photography, satellite images, panoramic images, aerial video, etc. However, these real data are more or less problematic, so a secondary design is needed to achieve accurate geographic location, matching regional style, and smooth operation efficiency.

For those buildings that required a high level of detail, manual modelling comes in handy. Designers will utilize CAD, aerial photography, satellite images, on-site images, etc as references to model the building or the inside equipment/devices. Then input to HT, to achieve an interactive Web 3D scene, which can be zoomed, translated, and rotated. Each device in the scene can respond to interactive events.

Weather Simulation

HT powerful graphic rendering engine enables dynamic weather simulation on the web. By integrating with the weather system, the interactive scene will simulate different weather scenarios. Also display the temperature, air quality, and related information.

3D Walk-through & Fly-through

HT integrated GIS and remains the walk-through and fly-through functionality, allows users to patrol and roam the area from a first-person perspective according to a pre-set route.

Industrial Park Management

Hightopo offers a one-stop comprehensive visualization solution from industrial park construction, underground pipeline management, attracting investment to traffic management. Empower operators and managers to track each phase and be prepared for what is next.

•Underground Pipeline Construction

In terms of land use planning, they are distinguished by different colour blocks. Through analysis of land use distribution, land use requirements, functional positioning, etc., to reasonably determine the development intensity, land use scale and control requirements of the plots.

The underground pipeline system not only solves the problem of urban traffic congestion but also greatly facilitates the maintenance and overhaul of municipal facilities such as water, electricity, gas, heat, and communications. Hightopo uses lightweight modelling technology to simulate the underground pipelines, and utilize 3D visualization, it greatly improves the quality of the operation and maintenance service of the integrated pipeline gallery, and accelerates the construction of a 3D green pipe gallery with intelligent control and intelligent operation and maintenance.

•Investment Attraction

Investment attraction is an important work after the completion of the smart park. The investment in the park is mainly about the leasing and rent of the buildings in the park; the placement of advertising spaces in the park; the distribution and usage of park parking lots and the distribution of POI (Point of Interest) data of the park service facilities, etc. The overall investment promotion situation is fully presented, attracting more enterprises to enter the park. Smart investment in the park allows the industrial park operators and managers to save a lot of time and labour costs, and improve the efficiency of investment.

•Traffic Management & Video Fusion in 3D Environment

The visualization of traffic supervision creates a “Skynet” in the park through a series of connections and integrations of traffic monitory and supervision system, which allows a comprehensive control and management of current traffic.

Video Fusion or virtual and real fusion technology is one of the key links in video enhancement of 3D geographical scenes. The video images are accurately fused and displayed in the real and precise geographic coordinates of the space corresponding to the 3D model. This fusion will not cause dislocation due to interaction such as dragging and rotating the 3D model.

HIghtopo video fusion technology uses WebGL technology and uses GPU high-performance computing capabilities to process video images in real-time. Image processing does not occupy CPU resources, to make sure of a smooth loading.

Building Management

Hightopo offers an enhanced solution to traditional BA building management need. The system connects to and synchronizes with building devices through IoT technologies, facilitating an integrated operating system for device maintenance, lighting, ventilation, security, fire control, and elevator, all presented with 3d visualization to maximize efficiency.

•Elevator System

The sci-fi wireframe style design enables an intuitive visual of elevators real-time operation status. The data source from the elevators system will trigger the animation and display key data on side pannels.

•Lighting System

Integrate the lighting system inside and outside the building, use the HT Smart City visualization platform to centrally monitor the lighting equipment in the building, adjust the lighting effect mode at different times, analyze the environmental illuminance and lighting energy consumption through the data trend graph. The running status of lighting detection is updated in real-time so that managers can deal with lighting system problems in time, problems can be discovered and dealt with in a timely manner, and improving the management efficiency and service level of the building.

•Fire System

The fire equipment location is indicated with the red light point in the scene. The operation and monitoring status of each fire equipment; the number of smoke and electrical fires; the number of fire alarms; the real-time update dynamics of the firewater pressure, and the abnormal situation all can be checked and displayed on the data panel.

When a disaster occurs, the visualization system can quickly know where the problem is, so that firefighters can execute the corresponding plan, complete the planning of the optimal escape route, call the alarm system and broadcast to remind the people in the building to escape from danger, and ensure the safety of lives and properties inside the building.

•AC & Ventilation System

Visualize and monitor the environment status such as outdoor PM value, temperature and humidity, wind speed, and indoor real-time temperature, humidity, carbon dioxide level and other information. Also, in this project, we integrated the cooling monitor system. Display the vital data such as operating power, unit operating status, working conditions, and VRV（Variable Refrigerant Volume) system operating status of the water-cooled host.

Conclusion

In the era of rapid economic development, industrial parks (software parks, technology parks, logistics parks, etc.) are the important part of smart city development. Digital transformation is now the crucial need for industrial parks to upgrading towards to a smarter, greener city component.

Hightopo self-developed a powerful 2D and 3D visualization engine, and it can be seamlessly integrated with GIS, BIM, and video fusion technologies, and accesses oblique photography, GIS spatial information data, Internet of Things IoT data and big data system platform and other data information. Combined with lightweight modelling solutions to archive the B/S structure of comprehensive visualization and management tool. The cross-platform ability allows users to access the system from any device at any time!