Abstract:
This project consists on creating a mobile application that, by means of Extended Reality (XR), allows the user to interact with any industrial plant, in our case a Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). In order to make this possible, we have generated a digital twin of the facility from the BIM model. The user will be able to wander around the model immersed on it. The camera can be moved to explore the space by using, in VR, the mobile device’s gyroscope (to rotate) and a joystick (to move around) or by freely walking inside the building in AR. Its main purpose is to monitor the live status of the WWTP whether it is from a remote location using VR or inside the building using AR. In almost every equipment of the WWTP there is information from the computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) and sensors uploading measurements to a server feeding the SCADA. The application will display this information in an intuitive 3D panel on top of each equipment once it is selected by the user. It will also be possible to interact with the model by moving equipment around or by taking measurements of the building on the device’s screen. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
