HYDERABAD: Hexagon has developed and handed over a data-rich digital twin of the 16th century Qutub Shahi Tombs to the Telangana government as a proof of concept to demonstrate the company’s reality technology for smart cities capabilities.
The company said it deployed its suite of cutting-edge software and hardware technologies, including 3D scanning, geospatial mapping, and reality capture to generate 10.7 billion data points for the creation of the digital representation of the landmark site.
The team also utilised award-winning devices such as Leica BLK2FLY, an autonomous flying drone equipped with a LiDAR scanner, along with the BLK2GO, and RTC 360, that are capable of capturing an astounding 2 million points per second.
“The GS18i complemented these devices for geo-referencing the point cloud. In the final stage, Hexagon’s digital-reality platform HxDR applied advanced AI solutions to stitch together a point-cloud mesh and data-rich actionable digital twin. The new digital version of the historic site enables data-driven decision-making, real-time analytics, visualisations and simulations,” Hexagon said.
Hexagon president & CEO Paolo Guglielmini, who handed over the digital twin to the Telangana government representatives on Tuesday, said: “The creation of this digital twin of the iconic Qutub Shahi Tombs is a step towards our vision of digitally safeguarding cultural heritage sites across the globe. Our work in Hyderabad demonstrates how forward-looking innovation and reality technologies can be used to protect our most valued connections to the past while advancing smart cities for our future.”
Telangana IT & industries minister D Sridhar Babu said: “Telangana believes in making Hyderabad a city of the future. To do that, we also need to be a responsible custodian of the rich heritage of the state. We are delighted that Hexagon India R&D, based in our very own city and being the largest R&D centre of the company, has developed a data-rich digital twin of the Qutub Shahi tombs. I am confident that using smart technologies to preserve, maintain and restore our rich heritage is the right way forward for a smart city.”
Hexagon’s senior vice president and head of Hexagon R&D India Navaneet Mishra said the project is a fully functional proof-of-concept of Hexagon’s Digital Heritage for Smart Cities that demonstrates how we can help preserve the rich heritage of our country.
“The data-richness of Hexagon’s digital reality will make it easy for governments, planners, and conservationists of smart-cities to make data-driven decisions. We are excited to have developed this for Telangana and look forward to more such possibilities across India,” Mishra said.Source Link
