Transformation through Digitalisation

Author:Monica Miller Rodgers

Hexagon Geosystems President Juergen Dold presentedTransformation through Digitalisationat INTERGEO, the hub event of the geospatial community, 26 September at the Messe in Berlin.

在主题演讲中，他区分了digitisinganddigitalising,说明前者merely converting information to digital formats while the latter is changing processes to develop connected ecosystems for future collaboration. Using Paul Simon’s song,You can call me 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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Making the most of digital resources

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.

他在旅行时解释说，进一步缓解风险，边境控制如何也改变了其流程。与其仅仅是用于识别的纸护照，还可以确定旅行者的真实身份。这可以加快移民路线，减少险恶的人进入地区并帮助保护国家。

最后，在当今数字化最数字化的行业之一中，金融部门正在使用数据来变得更聪明，更快，更安全地赚钱。借助新技术，例如面部识别，交易很容易就不需要现金或信用卡。

“Suddenly data is available and people are willing to provide that information to make their lives faster and easier,”Dold说。“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,”Dold说。“不过，今天，我们正在快速发展传感器技术，将其应用于许多领域。”

这些领域之一是智能城市规划和管理。他为智能城市提供了基础，他解释了如何将激光扫描，地面穿透性雷达和移动地图技术的使用结合在一起，将高于地面结构的高于地面结构带入数字现实，以便城市规划师，城市经理和其他专业人员可以使其能够使他们城市效率更高，为居民和游客提供更好的组织。

“Suddenly we’re fusing this data from different sensors to get a street view we’ve never had before,”Dold说。“我们现在可以理解上述资产不仅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.”

Another areabob体育报道六边形专注于建筑行业。该行业可以从数字化策略中受益匪浅。考虑到全球建筑生产率已下降，预算超过预算的80％，并且通常需要花费20％的时间，而二元建筑将转化为大量的时间和成本节省。Dold继续解释了Hexagon建筑进度文档和激光扫描技bob体育报道术如何在各个阶段为该行业带来数字化。

“Digitalisation touches every phase of a construction project ecosystem from design to plan to construction through execution,”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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大数据的明智使用

2.5千万亿（19位数字）。

This is the number of bytes of data createdevery day。

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.

“数字化意味着我们如何使其数字化。数字化意味着我们如何转换数据，以便我们可以在协作平台中使用它，”explained Dold.“At Hexagon, we are driving this with simplicity through visualisation, augmenting intelligence, and connecting the data in new ecosystems.”

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

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,”Dold说。“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

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.

“We need to [set the direction of the industry] with an attitude of ‘we can if’ and not ‘we can’t because,’”concluded Dold.“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.”