Issue link: https://geospatial.trimble.com/en/resources/i/1396966
A prominent Norwegian engineering design firm had been searching for a 3D augmented reality (AR) solution to help designers evaluate design alternatives, identify design conflicts and site-specific problems, and help in stakeholder engagement. Their first deployment of Trimble SiteVision Augmented Reality solution on a bridge project proved successful on all counts. overview Location NORWAY TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS TRANSFORMING THE WAY THE WORLD WORKS ViaNova Plan og Trafikk AS (plan and traffic) in Sandvika, Norway, is a prominent, award-winning infrastructure design firm that has long been on the leading edge of building information management (BIM) designs for 4D construction and asset information modelling to support post-construction operations. ViaNova 3D Designer Andreas Haugbotn said he had been looking at various 3D AR solutions for many years. Haugbotn was seeking hardware and software that can bring the 3D design model to the field and project it over the real-world view of existing terrain and structures— precisely geospatially registered, to scale, from any vantage point, and all in real time. When ViaNova evaluated the Trimble SiteVision 3D AR solution, they saw an opportunity to deploy it on a current project to see if it would meet their application needs. FEATURES MATTER Haugbotn was attracted to the simple design. "It is hand held, low cost, and does not require special training for our people," he said. "We were able to run it on a Galaxy 10+ phone." SiteVision uses the powerful onboard processors and fast displays of today's consumer phones to superimpose an interactive view of the design model over the real-time view of the site captured by the on-board camera. It can import nearly any standard AEC (BIM IFC, SKP, CAD, LandXML, Revit, and more) model types. Trimble SiteVision provides precise spatial positioning and orientation. A high-precision Trimble GNSS antenna sits atop the handle that holds an Android-based phone. The GNSS provides high-precision positions that enable geo-registration and orientation of the 3D model to the site coordinates. Haugbotn said "the results were very good"