SURVEYING THE SECTOR
Connect cloud-based common data environment ( CDE ) and collaboration solution . Willhauck calls for ‘ proper support ’ for reality capture data , the ‘ one piece that was missing ’ from the Trimble Connect solution , and something that customers had been requesting . ‘ The cloud service is a mass data storage service focused on reality capture data and serving that data in a cloud environment . It ’ s seamlessly integrated through Trimble Connect and this integration allows users to bring their reality capture data from different systems , not just Trimble ’ s , into Connect and work with it seamlessly , building a collaborative workflow . Currently , the main use case is to view , manage and share reality capture data , but the Trimble Connect Reality Capture Platform service was built to enable running AI and other algorithms on the original data in the cloud to analyse and filter datasets .”
Use case : Laing O ’ Rourke
One of the companies on the test programme was engineering surveying company Laing O ’ Rourke , which applied the Reality Capture Platform service on an infrastructure project in Australia , a highway infrastructure expansion including replacing and upgrading existing bridges and tunnels .
In the test phase , the project had five reality capture experts uploading data from scans , and over 100 project participants viewing and consuming the data . “ The new Trimble
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