Digital Twins - Reality Capture

A digital Twin, as the name suggests, is a digital copy of a physical asset. A Digital Twins can be created from a real world object or an area under management for the purpose of analyzing, documenting, or measuring. Digitizing areas or assets allows an organization to work, collaborate, and analyze together for large or complex projects that might be geographically, logistically or physically challenging.

How are Digital Twins Used in Industry Today?

Digital twins are used in most major industries thanks to their versatility, cost savings, and analytical capabilities. Have the ability to manage assets digitally for teams, stakeholders, partners, or for compliance purposes allows an organization to have higher quality data at their fingertips.

City Planning

City planners can leverage the high quality data produced through drone mapping to create digital twins of large stretches of land or urbanized area. Digital Twins can be used for code enforcement, vegetation management, roadway tracking, utilities identification, and more.

Construction Projects

There are various ways to use drone mapping and digital twins in the construction industry. Not only can Digital Twin technology be used to help plan the construction project, but it can also be used to take accurate measurements. This is especially true for hard-to-reach or dangerous areas that only drones can reach. Additionally, this technology can be used to monitor the site’s progress.

Aside from all this, digital twins act as a virtual copy of the construction site which can be shared with various departments to improve cooperation. This helps save time, effort, and money in the long run. Digital twins are also vital for identifying critical risks in time during construction. 

Infrastructure Inspections

Hyper-realistic digital twins are widely used for infrastructure inspections. This way, tests can be conducted on the digital copy with ease by mimicking real-world instances. Using drone mapping for creating digital twins of the structure that needs to be inspected can save tons of time as very large areas can be scanned within minutes. The drones can also map out areas that are inaccessible for inspection by normal means.  

PV Systems

Combining 3D modeling, GIS, and inferred scans; a digital version of a photovoltaic system can be created to track issues with panels or damage to save time and money over a period of time.

Farming / Forestry

Farmers use drone mapping techniques to create a digital twin of their fields. This helps them monitor the growth and health of the crops with ease. This also allows the farmers to foresee and identify emergencies, saving the crop from disaster. 

Drone mapping is also used to track the change of environmental areas like forests, wetlands, and costal regions for the purpose of producing a snapshot in time. This data can be leveraged to conduct biological studies, track changing or diseased vegetation, identifying at risk areas, and more.