iTwin to Empower Bentley Infrastructure Cloud
and Advance Bentley’s Engineering Applications
At the 2022 Year in Infrastructure Conference, Bentley Systems,
Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software
company, today announced new capabilities of its iTwin Platform,
significantly extending the scope and interoperability of
infrastructure data that engineering firms and owner-operators can
use to create and leverage digital twins in design, construction,
and operations workflows.
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The new iTwin Platform capabilities will power Bentley
Infrastructure Cloud, a set of solutions that span the end-to-end
infrastructure lifecycle and value chain, encompassing ProjectWise,
SYNCHRO, and AssetWise, unified and made interoperable by
Bentley’s infrastructure schemas.
iTwin Experience is a new cloud product to empower
owner-operators’ and their constituents’ insights into critical
infrastructure by visualizing and navigating digital twins.
Significantly, iTwin Experience accelerates engineering firms’
“digital integrator” initiatives to create and curate
asset-specific digital twins, incorporating their proprietary
machine learning, analytics, and asset performance algorithms.
iTwin Experience acts as a “single pane of glass,” overlaying
engineering technology (ET), operations technology (OT), and
information technology (IT) to enable users to visualize, query,
and analyze infrastructure digital twins in their full context, at
any level of granularity, at any scale, all geo-coordinated and
fully searchable.
Additional iTwin products include:
iTwin Capture, for capturing, analyzing, and sharing
reality data, enables users to easily create engineering-ready,
high resolution 3D models of infrastructure assets using drone
video and survey imagery from any digital camera, scanner, or
mobile mapping device. Infrastructure digital twins of any existing
assets can accordingly start with reality modeling, rather than
requiring a BIM model. iTwin Capture offers the highest-fidelity
and most versatile means of capturing reality to serve as the
digital context for surveying, design, monitoring, and inspection
processes.
iTwin IoT, for acquiring and analyzing sensor data,
enables users to seamlessly incorporate Internet of Things (IoT)
data created by sensors and condition monitoring devices.
Infrastructure IoT can be used effectively for real-time safety and
risk monitoring in operations and construction activities,
including to measure and visualize environmental changes,
structural movement, or deterioration for condition assessment,
maintenance scheduling, and to prompt precautionary interventions.
By securely incorporating real-time data at scale from among
hundreds of sensor types, iTwin IoT increases the value of
engineering and geotechnical data.
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 delivery approaches, as evidenced by the 2022 finalists’
projects, Bentley presented a broadening of its strategic
priorities for iTwin, including adding “digital-twin native”
advantages to its infrastructure engineering applications.
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 used by Bentley and partners to develop,
run, and extend applications that use digital twin workflows.
Bentley’s engineering applications will next take advantage of
iTwin capabilities on the desktop. Users will continue to work with
these applications as they are accustomed to, but alongside the
usual resulting .dgn file, the engineering applications will also
create and synchronize an iModel, Bentley’s specialized container
to semantically align and federate infrastructure engineering data
within digital twins. iModel and iTwin will enable users to
participate in data-centric workflows, including for integration,
validation of design intent, rules checking, clash detection,
component queries and reuse, quality assurance, and digital-twin
deliverables creation.
Keith Bentley said, “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 same time, Julien Moutte, vice president of technology,
described the enhanced interoperability of the iTwin Platform,
including integration with 3D environments, such as Unreal, Unity,
and NVIDIA Omniverse, to enable immersive experiences across a wide
range of devices. “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
technologies, Moutte announced that Adobe has licensed Bentley’s
iTwin Capture for its Substance 3D Sampler application, which
enables designers to easily transform real-life pictures into a
photorealistic surface or environment. Alexis Khouri, vice
president, growth, 3D and metaverse at Adobe, said, “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 new iTwin Platform service that enables software developers and
digital integrators to stream digital twins into Unreal Engine, the
leading game 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,” said Marc Petit, vice
president, 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 access; iTwin Capture and iTwin IoT
are available 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 find out
more, visit www.bentley.com.
Image 1
iTwin Experience. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
Image 2
iTwin IoT. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
Image 3
iTwin Capture. Image courtesy of Bentley Systems.
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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, mining, and industrial facilities. Our
offerings include MicroStation-based applications for modeling and
simulation, ProjectWise for project delivery, AssetWise for asset
and network performance, Seequent’s leading geoprofessional
software portfolio, and the iTwin platform for infrastructure
digital twins. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,500 colleagues
and generates annual revenues of approximately $1 billion in 186
countries.
www.bentley.com
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