Research into Digital Twins for AEC

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Abstract

Autodesk Research started exploring applications for Digital Twins in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry in late 2009, when it started Project Dasher, a tool for visualizing data captured from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and Building Management Systems (BMS) inside a 3D context. It was initiated with a view to make the built environment more efficient: with 40% of global CO2 emissions coming from buildings, anything that could be done to impact this number would be worthwhile. It was built on a couple of important industry trends: the increasing availability and ubiquity of low-cost sensors and the decreasing cost of cloud storage. The Dasher team asked themselves the research question “what can we achieve if we place sensors everywhere and store all the data we can for a building over an extended period?” During the decade or more that Project Dasher was running, it went from being a desktop application to being cloud-based – testing the possibility of using Autodesk’s Forge platform (now called Autodesk Platform Services) to implement digital twins – and broadened to not only work with buildings (and Building Information Modeling – or BIM – data) but to work with smart infrastructure. In this session we explore the features we were able to build into Project Dasher – looking at projects related to both buildings and bridges – and how the project has influenced Autodesk’s new platform for digital twin creation, Autodesk Tandem.

Keywords

AEC, Digital Transformation, Digital Twins, Machine Learning, Digital Fabrication, 3D Printing.

Bibliography

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