Transformation through Digitalisation

Author:莫妮卡·米勒·罗杰斯（Monica Miller Rodgers）

bob体育报道Hexagon Geosystems总裁Juergen Dold提出了Transformation through Digitalisation9月26日在柏林的梅斯（Messe）的地理空间社区中心的Intergeo举行。

In his keynote address, he differentiated betweendigitising和digitalising, explaining how the former is merely converting information to digital formats while the latter is changing processes to develop connected ecosystems for future collaboration. Using Paul Simon’s song,你可以叫我al，Dold为他的比较奠定了基础，重点是只有两个字母（Al）将永远改变行业的运作方式。

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充分利用数字资源

Further explaining digitalisation as the strategy of adopting new technologies to make the most of the resources that are already available, he used the example of moving from the fax machine to the smart phone. With the digitalisation of apps and passcodes found in smart phones, automated transactions and processes are facilitated to make operations faster, easier and safer.

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.

“Suddenly data is available and people are willing to provide that information to make their lives faster and easier,”said Dold.“这改变了我们为一切付出的方式。”

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产生巨大的潜力

关注城市,他接着Hexago如何分享n 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.

“捕获过去的数字现实是一种独家技术，大多数人无法访问，只能以高昂的成本可用，”said Dold.“Today, though, we’re in a rapid evolution of sensor technology to apply it to many areas.”

One of those areas is smart city planning 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.

“Suddenly we’re fusing this data from different sensors to get a street view we’ve never had before,”said Dold.“现在，我们不仅可以理解街道上方的资产，而且还可以理解街上的资产。这是一个数据集，不仅对一个城市的一个部门，而且对多个部门都具有相关性和价值。您只需开车一次创建帮助许多人的信息。”

Another areaHexagon 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.

“Digitalisation touches every phase of a construction project ecosystem from design to plan to construction through execution,”he said.“这成功的转换是所有关键要素的数字化，因此所有过程都可以连接以进行协作。”

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Smart use of big data

2.5 quintillion (19 digits).

This is the number of bytes of data created每天.

During his presentation, he claimed it’s not just about how big the data is, how much of it we have, but how smart the data is, how we use it.

“Digitising means how we make it digital. Digitalisation means how we convert the data so we can use it in collaborative platforms,”解释了。“At Hexagon, we are driving this with simplicity through visualisation, augmenting intelligence, and connecting the data in new ecosystems.”

Dold继续预测，随着一切都变成3D，新一代都不会被新一代理解。他用空中现实捕获了里约热内卢的城市模型来体现这一理论，并分享了人们现在如何以数字方bob综合app赌博式探索任何城市。他还分享了增强现实是如何推动这些新巡回演出的。在里约热内卢的3D车型上显示覆盖的热图​​，他展示了公共安全官员如何为大型活动进行紧急计划，例如去年在该市举行的奥运会和世界杯。

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生活在共享经济中

To demonstrate the need to share data and information, Dold asked the audience ‘what if’. What if you could simulate all the possible risks and scenarios to avoid accidents? What if you were in charge of approving the routes of oversized trucks to travel through a city? What if you could digitally drive that truck through the city and see if there would be any spots where collisions would happen, like overpasses and curves?

This is all possible in a sharing economy. When a logistics company shares the dimensions of the truck with a city manager who has the dimensions of the roads in a digital twin, collisions can be avoided. This is an example of how digitalisation is changing how entities work together and become more efficient and safe.

“The key to digitalisation is not only how to apply new technologies … it’s also about rethinking the ecosystem, which involves changing mindsets,”said Dold.“我坚信，我们将与许多学科共享数据，分解孤岛以提高负担能力和可用性，因此生态系统为参与的每个人提供好处。拥有数据的传统模型将成为过去，我们将继续订阅模型，在这些模型中我们将从更多和更新鲜的数据中受益。”

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如果我们不能，我们不能，因为

To finish his keynote, he challenged the audience to explore what was holding the industry back from fulling embracing digitalisation. Using a reservoir as a visual aid, he described how the technologies and possibilities already exist as the water source, but as the dam holds the water back, so does fear, inflexibility and outlived policies hold back the full potential of digitalisation.

“我们需要以'我们可以'而不是'我们不能因为，因为'而不是'我们可以的，'concluded Dold.“作为行业领导者，我们有责任使数字化成为现实，从数字化中提取价值，并创造一种具有变革性的遗产，以使世界变得更美好。”