Millimeter-accurate Digital Twin Solution
Combines Patented Dual-sensor Drone Technologies and Artificial
Intelligence to Help Tower Companies Accelerate Rollouts and
Enhance Decision-making
Bentley Acceleration Initiatives today announced the
availability of OpenTower® iQ, a digital twin solution “powered by
iTwin” for telecom towers that provides 3D visualization, real-time
decision support, and predictive design from the ground up.
OpenTower iQ is the result of a digital co-venture between Bentley
and Visual Intelligence, a Houston, Texas-based sensor technology
company, and Aeroprotechnik, an aerial inspection engineering
company based in Viseu, Portugal.
This press release features multimedia. View
the full release here:
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210323005733/en/
Conduct automated inventory including
automated AI for equipment identification and classification.
(Photo: Business Wire)
Bentley Acceleration Initiatives is Bentley Systems’ (Nasdaq:
BSY) strategic investment fund and incubator initiative. Its
objective is to bring together ecosystem partners in a digital
co-ventures to accelerate the go-to-market of creative cloud
solutions based on the Bentley iTwin platform. OpenTower iQ,
‘powered by iTwin,’ is a textbook example of co-venturing that
combines innovative digital technologies from entrepreneurial
companies to address a market need in double-quick time.
As the demand for data continues to grow, tower companies and
engineering firms are looking for all-inclusive, engineering-grade
solutions to co-locate, modify, and maintain telecom infrastructure
for the 5G rollout. OpenTower iQ makes it easy to modify existing
towers and maintain accurate models, automating the repetitive work
of producing as-built models and using artificial intelligence to
detect critical components.
Tower companies can use OpenTower iQ to monitor the health of
their towers and gain access to shared, secured data through an
easy-to-understand portal. Data analytics provide cost benefit
analysis to boost operational efficiency and revenue assurance.
Improved accuracy of tower inspections and smart inventory
management saves time, cost, and improves safety. OpenTower iQ is
designed to handle the large asset portfolios of operators, easily
processing and analyzing tens of thousands of towers.
Combines artificial intelligence and patented drone
technologies
To accelerate the launch of OpenTower iQ, Bentley Acceleration
Initiatives acquired digital twin technology from Aeroprotechnik, a
leading aerial inspection engineering company that specializes in
automated asset data capture and digitalization solutions. The
technology included artificial intelligence and reality modeling
capabilities that provide detailed information on current site
conditions, which helps tower companies speed up rollouts, enhance
decision-making, and shorten sales cycles.
Bentley Acceleration Initiatives also partnered with Visual
Intelligence whose patented dual-sensor drone technology
digitalizes physical infrastructure with millimeter accuracy to
reliably deliver 3D, engineering-grade asset intelligence. Visual
Intelligence is able to map more measurable surface area than
alternative aerial and ground-based methods. Its patented drone
sensor technology has the unique ability to capture the components
of a tower including bolts, wires, ladders, and other items with an
extremely high degree of accuracy that was not previously
possible.
Now, with a comprehensive millimeter accurate digital twin, a
tower company can virtually inspect their tower, see if it has been
constructed correctly, determine if the tower’s structural
integrity is intact, and run co-location scenarios. Unlike
rudimentary reality models produced from other cameras, Visual
Intelligence enables a digital twin with such accuracy that it can
support advanced analyses such as connection integrity analysis and
mount mapping analysis.
“The objective of Bentley Acceleration Initiatives is to
incubate new businesses and augment existing ones using Bentley
iTwin technologies. We provide a go-to-market accelerator to
rapidly bring to users the innovative ideas from Bentley’s research
and development in partnership with emerging industry leaders and
technology specialists such as Visual Intelligence and
Aeroprotechnik. Bentley Acceleration Initiatives helped incubate
OpenTower iQ by funding its development, seeking out technology
partnerships to fill whitespaces, and creating a comprehensive
go-to-market strategy,” said Santanu Das, senior vice president,
chief acceleration officer, Bentley Acceleration Initiatives. “Our
next step is to invite additional interested ecosystem partners to
kick start new digital integrator services to capture huge emerging
opportunities for enterprise integration and implementation for
towers. The telecom industry is going through a rapid
transformation as multinetwork operators are expanding their
portfolios through consolidation and moving from a 4G platform to
5G. Without a doubt, digital twin solutions like OpenTower iQ,
‘powered by iTwin,’ will help tower owners make the most of the
industry’s burgeoning opportunities.”
“OpenTower iQ for tower planning and management is a game
changer for the telecom market. Within a couple of days, we had a
high-quality reality model available with the reports and other
aspects of the projects. Now, all the tower data is available in
digital form—and it’s accurate and current,” said Nikhil Jani, vice
president, telecom and utilities, Genesys International.
“Until now, drone data has failed to live up to its promise to
the tower industry. This is largely because survey-grade drone
sensors can’t collect the fidelity of data required to extract
engineering-grade tower intelligence. Our patented drone sensor
technology is the first of its kind to collect millimeter-class
tower information. We partnered with Bentley to utilize OpenTower
iQ to translate this new fidelity of data into as-built digital
twins, and then apply AI to automate and unlock new kinds of tower
insights. With OpenTower iQ, we’re enabling new applications of
drone data and accelerating the value of digital twins to tower
companies worldwide,” said Ted Miller, founder and chairman of
Visual Intelligence and former chairman and CEO of Crown Castle
International (NYSE: CCI).
“Bentley Acceleration Initiatives proved to be an effective
platform for ecosystem partners like Aeroprotechnik to scale up
artificial intelligence-based solutions, transforming emerging
technologies into real value for Bentley’s users,” said Nuno
Marques, founder of Aeroprotechnik.
Images and captions:
- Conduct automated inventory including automated AI for
equipment identification and classification.
- Create a visual representation of the tower by combing a
reality mesh with the digital engineering models.
- With OpenTower iQ, Tower Cos and Mobile Operators gain
continuous access to near real-time information to better monitor,
predict, and react to any required tower modifications by
leveraging digital twins and reality modeling capabilities.
- Conduct automated infrastructure inspection including automated
asset condition evaluation.
- OpenTower iQ brings to life a digital twin to provide
intelligence for planning, visualization, and inspection.
About Visual Intelligence
Visual Intelligence, based in Houston, Texas, has emerged as an
industry-leading software and sensor technology company that
delivers geo-imaging solutions for airborne, terrestrial, and
mobile applications. It provides the Visual Intelligence unified
drone sensor and software automation platform that digitizes
physical infrastructure with millimeter accuracy to reliably
deliver 3D, engineering-grade asset intelligence.
https://visualintelligenceinc.com/telecom/
About Bentley Systems
Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering
software company. We provide innovative software to advance the
world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and
environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by
professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design,
construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and
transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities,
buildings and campuses, and industrial facilities. Our offerings
include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 colleagues
and generates annualized revenues of more than $800 million in 172
countries. www.bentley.com www.bentleyaccelerationinitiatives.com.
www.opentower.com
© 2021 Bentley Systems, Incorporated. Bentley, the Bentley logo,
AssetWise, iTwin, MicroStation, OpenTower, OpenTower iQ, and
ProjectWise are either registered or unregistered trademarks or
service marks of Bentley Systems, Incorporated or one of its direct
or indirect wholly owned subsidiaries. All other brands and product
names are trademarks of their respective owners.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210323005733/en/
Press: Rachel Rogers +1 415 827 7347 Rachel.Rogers@bentley.com
Follow us on Twitter: @BentleySystems
Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jun 2024 to Jul 2024
Bentley Systems (NASDAQ:BSY)
Historical Stock Chart
From Jul 2023 to Jul 2024