通过数字化转换

作者：Monica Miller Rodgers

Hexagon Geosystems President Juergen Dold presented通过数字化转换at INTERGEO, the hub event of the geospatial community, 26 September at the Messe in Berlin.

In his keynote address, he differentiated between数字化and数字化，解释前者只是如何将信息转换为数字格式，而后者正在改变流程以开发连接的生态系统以供将来的协作。使用保罗·西蒙（Paul Simon）的歌，You can call me Al, Dold set the stage for his comparisons, focusing on how just two letters – AL – will forever change the way industries work.

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Making the most of digital resources

他进一步解释数字化是采用新技术来充分利用已经可用的资源的策略，他以从传真机转移到智能手机的示例。随着在智能手机中发现的应用程序和密码的数字化，自动交易和流程可以促进使操作更快，更容易，更安全。

Further mitigating risks, he explained when travelling how border control has also transformed its processes. Instead of just paper passports for identification, biometrics, such as eye scans, can determine the true identify of a traveler. This can speed up immigration lines, decrease menacing individuals from entering regions and help protect nations.

Finally, in one of the most digitalised industries today, the financial sector is using data to become smarter, quicker and more secured in how it moves money. With new technologies, like facial recognition, transactions can occur easily without the need for cash or credit cards.

“突然有数据可用，人们愿意提供这些信息以使他们的生活更快，更轻松。”said Dold.“This transforms how we pay for everything.”

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Creating enormous potential

Focusing on cities, he went on to share how Hexagon technologies are helping to digitise cities. Speaking to the barriers of technology where previously one had to have advanced degrees and significant resources, today technology is becoming more inclusive.

“Capturing digital realities used to be an exclusive technology, inaccessible to most and only available to a few at high costs,”said Dold.“Today, though, we’re in a rapid evolution of sensor technology to apply it to many areas.”

这些领域之一是解放军智能城市nning and management. Providing the foundation for a smart city, he explained how combining the use of laser scanning, ground penetrating radar and mobile mapping technologies are bringing above- and below-ground structures into a digital reality so urban planners, city managers and other professionals can make their cities more efficient and better organised for residents and visitors.

“突然之间，我们从不同的传感器中融合了这些数据，以获得我们从未有过的街景。”said Dold.“We can now understand the assets not only above the street but also below the street. This is a data set that is not only relevant and valuable for one department of a city but multiple departments. You only drive once to create information that is helping many.”

另一个区域Hexagon is focusing on is the construction industry. This sector could greatly benefit from digitalisation strategies. Considering that global construction productivity has declined with 80 per cent of projects over budget and typically taking 20 per cent longer to finish than scheduled, disitalising construction would translate into significant time and cost savings. Dold went on to explain how Hexagon construction progress documentation and laser scanning technologies are helping bring digitalisation to this industry at all stages.

“数字化触及了建筑项目生态系统的每个阶段，从设计到计划，通过执行到建设，”he said.“The successful transformation of this is the digitisation of all key elements so all processes can be connected for collaboration.”

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Smart use of big data

2.5 quintillion (19 digits).

这是创建数据的字节数every day.

在他的演讲中，他声称这不仅与数据有多大有关，而且我们拥有多少数据，而且数据有多聪明，我们如何使用它。

“Digitising means how we make it digital. Digitalisation means how we convert the data so we can use it in collaborative platforms,”explained Dold.“在六边bob体育报道形，我们通过可视化，增强智能并连接新生态系统中的数据来简单地推动这一点。”

Dold went on to predict that 2D won’t even be understood with new generations as everything is becoming 3D. He exemplified this theory with airborne reality capture for a city model of Rio de Janeiro, sharing how people can now digitally explore any city. He also shared how augmented reality is furthering these new tours. Displaying overlaid heat maps on the 3D model of Rio, he showed how public safety officials can do emergency planning for large events, like the Olympics and World Cup held in the city last year.

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Living in a sharing economy

为了证明需要共享数据和信息的需求，Dold问观众“如果”。如果您可以模拟所有可能的风险和方案以避免发生事故怎么办？如果您负责批准超大卡车穿越城市的路线怎么办？如果您可以以数字方式将那辆卡车驶过城市，看看是否会发生碰撞的地方，例如立交桥和曲线，该怎么办？

在共享经济中，这一切都是可能的。当一家物流公司与具有数字双胞胎道路尺寸的城市经理分享卡车的尺寸时，可以避免碰撞。这是数字化如何改变实体如何共同工作并变得更加高效和安全的一个例子。

“数字化的关键不仅是如何应用新技术……还涉及重新思考生态系统，涉及改变思维方式，”said Dold.“I’m convinced we will share data with many disciplines, breaking down the silos to drive affordability and availability so the ecosystem provides benefits to everyone involved. Traditional models of owning data will be a thing of the past, and we will move forward to subscription models where we will benefit from more and fresher data.”

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We can if, not we can’t because

为了完成他的主题演讲，他挑战观众，探索阻碍行业的原因，无法接受数字化。他用水库作为视觉援助，描述了技术和可能性如何已经作为水源而存在，但是当大坝将水靠在倒流时，恐惧，僵化性和淘汰的政策也会抵消数字化的全部潜力。

“We need to [set the direction of the industry] with an attitude of ‘we can if’ and not ‘we can’t because,’”总结了。“It is our responsibility as industry leaders to make digitalisation a reality, to extract value from digitalisation, and to create a legacy that is transformational to make the world a better place.”