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An education and training tool that utilizes MR and digital twin technologies to improve engineer skills to ensure expressway safety

The expressway network of Japan has been constantly expanded since the 1960s and its total road length is currently over 10,000km. On the other hand, more than half of the expressway network has been used for over 30 years and aging of structures such as road surfaces, bridges, and tunnels has emerged as a social issue. The dwindling number of expressway maintenance and management engineers in line with the decline in the productive population is also one of the significant challenges.

Given the circumstances, Nexco-East Engineering operating about 4,000km of all the expressways in Japan developed a training app for ETC equipment and tunnel emergency facilities using MR and digital twin technologies, which is implemented in its training center “Technical Training Center (TTC)” located in Takasaki, Gunma. The app serves as an efficient education and training tool to equip every engineer with necessary knowledge and skills to develop quality engineers.

Initiated MR tool development toward improvement and standardization of trainees’ levels of understanding

Since about 10 years ago, the NEXCO EAST group has projected the aging of expressways and maintenance and management labor shortage and promoted the Smart Maintenance Highway (SMH) project to match the existing expressway maintenance and management technologies that the group has acquired with ICT technologies. Through the project, operational DX has been advanced with proactive application of digital capacities to the field operations, e.g. conversion of paper-based drawing preparation into tablet-based tasks and analysis and utilization of accumulated data with Microsoft PowerBI. Assigned with the project, Mr. Tetsuo Hideshima, the Managing Director and General Planning Manager of Nexco-East Engineering said with regard to the project policies,

“We at Nexco-East Engineering ensure that drivers can safely use expressways by providing inspections and troubleshooting all day, all year. For continuous maintenance and management of expressways, it is critical to conduct thorough inspections and diagnoses without overlooking any tiny changes in facilities and structures. To that end, streamlining and labor saving based on ICTs are imperative.”

The company also opened TTC in 2012 as a training facility to enhance performance of expressway inspection engineers. For practical training, TTC offers a training environment equipped with real power receiving and distribution equipment, ETC (automatic toll payment system) equipment, and component samples that are exactly the same as those used on expressways.


With regard to the roles of TTC, Mr. Masayuki Namiki, the General Manager of TTC said, “At TTC, over 1,000 of our engineers participate in training programs every year. They go through training to enhance skills based on the internal skill check system to become experts of expressway inspection and maintenance, called ‘highway doctors.'”

Meanwhile, highway structures and facilities have become more and more complex along with the technological advancement and, despite the hands-on learning with such training materials, levels of understanding of the mechanisms and internal structures varied among trainees. This hindered standardization of trainees’ technical levels, constituting an issue for TTC.

The issue was particularly conspicuous in education on ETC equipment. “ETC equipment is composed of multiple devices and how ETC equipment operates was explained with extensive materials such as paper-based radio communication and control signal flow charts, PowerPoint slides, and chalk talks of instructors and then tested with actual ETC devices,” said Mr. Yoshitaka Nakamura, the Manager, Facilities Construction Work Division, Facilities Construction Work Department of Nexco-East Engineering.

“However, it requires considerable time to gain understanding of associations among the training materials. Also, radio communication and control signal flows are impossible to see, so we had to rely on trainees’ imaginations. This resulted in gaps in understanding.”

In response, the company focused attention on the MR (mixed reality) and digital twin technologies. Then a project to develop an “MR for ETC equipment training” was launched out of an idea of combining a 3D model of ETC equipment as well as infrared sensors, radio communication, and data communication routes (which are invisible in reality) with the ETC practice lanes to foster better intuitive understanding.

Endeavor to develop training materials that are easy-to-use for every trainee with no example available as a model

It was DataMesh that contracted with Nexco-East Engineering for its extensive achievements and experiences in the field of digital twins and XR. Mr. Kensho Kashimada, the Director, Marketing and Sales of DataMesh Japan Co., Ltd. looked back, “At that time, there had been no similar attempts at least in Japan. The point was how we could build up MR materials that are easy-to-understand for every trainee while there was no correct answer about what the outcome should be like.”

The first step they took to that end was employment the agile development approach based on a quick PDCA cycles, rather than waterfall-model development that relies on detailed specifications from the beginning. “We carefully proceeded with the development through repeated hearing sessions with the project leading department and TTC instructors who would actually use the tool in practice,” said Mr. Kashimada.
They also received the same courses that TTC actually provides to trainees to gain knowledge of ETC equipment mechanisms and applied it to the system.

“By receiving lectures with oral explanations and 2D materials, we witnessed how difficult it is to understand the ETC mechanisms firsthand. We could also appreciate the potential value of the tool we were trying to create. So I think it was a very valuable process,” said Mr. Kashimada.

Thus, after the development period of about six months, accurate 3D models of ETC devices were made and the MR for ETC equipment training using 3D animation superimposed on ETC equipment that is visible via a tablet device or Microsoft MR device “HoloLens 2” was completed.

“Normally, accuracy of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) in positioning of MR superimposition depends on hardware performance. However, for this MR for ETC equipment training, SLAM features of DataMesh’s proprietary digital twin platform (FactVerse) were used to make SLAM accuracy levels of multiple devices uniform,” explained Mr. Kashimada. Ingenuities are made to realize superimposition of massive 3D data without dependence on device performance by using a technology to load necessary portions of data only.


Mr. Kashimada said those features provides trainees immersive experiences in the MR world without stressful events such as misalignment or freezing of 3D animation.

Mr. Namiki said, “It was really a tremendous work to explain invisible things verbally. But now data and radio waves are visible and this increased the level of understanding dramatically.”


Once getting used to the operational feeling of HoloLens 2, trainees can adjust the position just by reading a QR code on the display without taking any complex procedure. It was reported that instructors could acquire basic operation methods only through a one-day lecture provided by DataMesh.

The MR for ETC equipment training, which is well recognized by field operators, too, has been further improved based on feedback from instructors. Currently, additional features such as repeated playback of individual work steps and animation speed adjustment for in-depth explanation make the tool even more effective.

MR for tunnel emergency facilities training making full use of HoloLens 2 characteristics

Out of its confidence in the success of MR for ETC equipment training, Nexco-East Engineering promptly commenced next training MR development, which is the “MR for tunnel emergency facilities training.”

“The internal structure of automatic water sprinkler system for tunnel emergencies cannot be seen from the outside, so we superimposed a CG simulation of the internal water flow and developed training materials for visualizing internals and operating status,” said Mr. Nakamura.

Mr. Namiki said, “In the past, we presented pipe samples from real equipment and illustrations to teach their structures and operations, but we couldn’t actually let water through them to demonstrate the mechanism. Also, explanations somewhat varied among instructors. As with ETC equipment, the gap in levels of understanding among trainees was recognized as an issue.”

As a measure to resolve the issue, DataMesh reproduced the equipment movements from an onset of vehicle fire to watering and visualized the internal structures based on its know-how acquired through development of the MR for ETC equipment training.
Furthermore, a feature to adjust transparency of 3D animation of water flowing inside the pipe was added give trainees freedom to observe how water flows and stops inside. Implementation of realistic 3D effects of fire also give realistic experiences to enhance understanding.

Finally, quality of this MR for tunnel emergency facilities training is surprisingly high and precise even to experienced engineers including Mr. Hideshima. “From water flow and the valve opening mechanism to things going on behind pipes are all comprehensible at a glance. I sensed the poser of MR anew,” said Mr. Hideshima.

As the MR for tunnel emergency facilities training is equipped with the “pseudo reproduction feature” to learn points to check in the event of any malfunction and restoration methods, the MR system has a possibility to be applied to a future remote maintenance system.


Plus, linking tablets and other devices has enabled remote training, creating an environment where a greater number of trainees can take part.

Above all, the MR for tunnel emergency facilities training fully taps HoloLens 2 potential compared with the MR for ETC equipment training.
In fact, for training using the MR for ETC equipment training with outdoor ETC equipment, tablets are mainly used as output devices because visibility of HoloLens 2 can be deteriorated depending on sunlight intensity. On the other hand, tunnel emergency facilities are indoor equipment and not subject to sunlight. This is where HoloLens 2 comes in.

Mr. Namiki said, “While a tablet needs to be held with both hands, HoloLens 2 is a head-mounted display, which sets both hands free. So trainees can touch devices while going through MR training. It also allows individual trainees to rewind, pause, and adjust the transparency level, giving an advantage in tailoring training sessions to individual levels of understanding.”

Toward even more effective ICTs through professional collaborations

After realizing the quality training tools by using the digital twin and MR technologies, Nexco-East Engineering has a plan to further promote use of ICTs to address the issues of facilities aging and labor shortage, which are expected to be further accelerated.

Exploring possibilities of ICT usages in various scenes, Mr. Nakamura said, “We have an ambition to expand our use of ICTs beyond TTC hands-on training to online training, OJT training, establishment of hands-on safety education system to improve field safety management skills, and remote maintenance, etc.”

With a view to establishment of a system for effective use of ICTs, Mr. Namiki struggling in the field of training said, “In recent years, equipment and facilities have become more and more sophisticated and suffered less failures. It may appear to be a good thing, but on the other side of the coin, most engineers in the future could be inexperienced in failure responses. We would like to establish a system to support engineers with the power of ICTs rather than relying on experienced engineers when the time comes.”

On the other hand, Mr. Hideshima is hopeful about professional partnerships. He said, “Although we have excellent expertise in expressway technologies, we admit we cannot fully catch up with ever-improving ICT seeds and technological innovations. In that regard, we are really hopeful about continuation of partnerships with ICT professionals such as DataMesh and Microsoft Japan.”

Based on ideal partnerships in which expressway professionals and ICT professionals work together to resolve issues and mutually give valuable input to technologies and knowledge, Nexco-East Engineering will continue maintaining and advancing safety on expressways, one of the essentials of our modern lives.

“From water flow and the valve opening mechanism to things going on behind pipes are all comprehensible at a glance. I sensed the poser of MR anew,”

— Mr. Tetsuo Hideshima, Managing Director and Chief of Planning Headquarters, Nexco-East Engineering

“While a tablet needs to be held with both hands, HoloLens 2 is a head-mounted display, which sets both hands free. So trainees can touch devices while going through MR training. It also allows individual trainees to rewind, pause, and adjust the transparency level, giving an advantage in tailoring training sessions to individual levels of understanding,”

— Mr. Masayuki Namiki, General Manager, Technical Training Center Manager, Nexco-East Engineering

“We have an ambition to expand our use of ICTs beyond TTC hands-on training to online training, OJT training, establishment of hands-on safety education system to improve field safety management skills, and remote maintenance, etc.”

— Mr. Yoshitaka Nakamura, Manager, Facilities Construction Work Division, Facilities, Construction Work Department, Nexco-East Engineering

“At that time, there had been no similar attempts at least in Japan. The point was how we could build up MR materials that are easy-to-understand for every trainee while there was no correct answer about what the outcome should be like.”

— Mr. Kensho Kashimada, Director, Marketing and Sales, DataMesh Japan Co., Ltd.

This customer story was originally published by Microsoft here.

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DataMesh FactVerse AI Officially Launches

Driving Creation and Management Efficiency through Digital Twin-Based Generative AI

Aug 17, Beijing — DataMesh is proud to unveil FactVerse AI. This groundbreaking tool is the newest innovation from FactVerse, DataMesh’s enterprise metaverse platform, designed to democratize digital twins. By harnessing the power of generative AI tools and GPT technology, FactVerse AI seeks to significantly enhance the efficiency of digital twin content creation. This empowers businesses to operate and manage more intelligently, delivering an unparalleled digital twin experience.

FactVerse AI, an AIGC tool built in FactVerse, addresses AIGC-related tasks tailored for enterprise-level needs, facilitating organizations in rapidly developing digital twins and comprehensive enterprise metaverse environments.

Considering the widespread appeal of ChatGPT, the role of generative AI technology in influencing digital twin innovations is clear. In this context, the multi-modal functionalities powered by LLM emerge as foundational engines for constructing the enterprise metaverse. FactVerse AI incorporates three core components: LLM (the foundational language model), Modifier (fine-tuning the LLM for specific industries or applications), and Agent (FactVerse’s multi-modal interactive interface). Collectively, these capabilities of FactVerse AI provide a solution that amplifies business operations and management.

Key Features Include:

  • Knowledge Base Integration: Enables businesses to seamlessly integrate various types of corporate knowledge documents and data into FactVerse AI’s knowledge hub, granting the AI model instant access to real-time, proprietary corporate data.
Easily deploying a knowledge base with up-to-date data
  • Smart Search and Content Creation: Offers sophisticated search capabilities within the corporate knowledge base. Combined with its content generation capabilities, it ensures rapid access to essential data and subsequent content production.
  • Adaptable Chatbot Frameworks: Pre-embedded Conversational AI/Virtual Agent/Chatbot templates allow for the customization of AI assistants, aligning them with varied operational roles, fostering efficient collaboration.
Using AI Assistant Template to deploy a virtual assistant based on different role needs
  • Industry-Specific Knowledge: FactVerse AI support implement of GPT-like AI models to provide customized content creation and processing tools, tailored to capture the intricacies of specific industries or user profiles.
  • Translation and Voice Capabilities: Offers extensive multi-language translation tools and voice synthesis, enhancing cross-lingual communication and content generation.
  • Real-time Data Access: Enables instant interfacing with existing corporate data systems, drawing real-time data (such as production data or monitoring data) into digital twin scenarios for enhanced monitoring and management.

In its current iteration, FactVerse AI has been seamlessly integrated into the DataMesh FactVerse cloud platform, making it readily available for enterprises. Organizations are now equipped to leverage this product for the development of proprietary corporate knowledge bases and the strategic deployment of AI assistants. The versatility to introduce a range of AI assistants tailored for varied tasks – from data analytics and market research to bid document drafting – redefines the landscape of operational efficiency. Furthermore, the one-click voice generation capability, complemented by robust multilingual support, sets a new benchmark for modern content creation efficiency.

For more information about FactVerse AI and product trials, please reach out to us at service@datamesh.com.

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DataMesh Unveils New Digital Twin-based Simulator Platform

DataMesh has announced the launch of DataMesh Simulator 2.0, an innovative platform designed to provide operators with an immersive learning experience. Based on digital twin and motion simulation technologies, it integrates equipment operation simulation training, job simulation training, and operational behavior assessment into a single platform, addressing key challenges in heavy machinery, mining equipment, specialized vehicles, aircraft, and more.

Traditional training in these fields often faces challenges such as training duration, cost, accessibility, safety, and weather dependencies, as it heavily relies on the availability of real equipment and physical environments. To overcome these challenges, many enterprises are turning to digital solutions to supplement their training activities.

DataMesh Simulator 2.0 features several key modules, including environmental simulation, mechanical simulation, practical training, and practical examinations. It effectively helps deal with limited training durations and environments on actual machines by allowing trainees to familiarize themselves with various types of engineering machinery before engaging with real equipment and environments. With DataMesh Simulator, users can practice extensively at any time, gaining operational skills and techniques while significantly improving training efficiency.

The platform creates a 1:1 replication of the real machine experience by combining the advantages of hardware and software. It includes a three-degree-of-freedom (3-DOF) or six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) motion platform, a dynamic simulation system, environment simulation, a simulated training cockpit, a motion control system, and front/left/right panoramic display screens with surround sound simulation systems. Additionally, it is equipped with software covering theoretical learning, cloud services, simulation, visualization, examination, signal acquisition, sound, and motion control systems. Together, these components create digital twins of the real working environment, enabling an effective alternative to traditional engineering equipment training methods.

For trainees, DataMesh Simulator allows them to fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements and the platform incorporates text prompts, guided animations, force feedback, and motion simulation within the teaching process. For trainers, such as training schools or enterprises, the platform enables them to develop diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment and provides flexibility to design comprehensive quantifiable indicators, facilitating content creation and reuse of virtual courseware.

Compared to traditional training methods, DataMesh Simulator offers several advantages:

  • Reduced Training Costs: By eliminating the need for specific environmental conditions like weather and terrain and powered by electricity instead of gasoline, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digitized and iterative 3D content and courseware based on the FactVerse platform, achieving significant cost savings compared to investments in real equipment.
  • Greater Flexibility: The platform provides exceptional flexibility in training scenarios. Training schools or enterprises can create customizable digital twins, scenarios, and assessment logics using FactVerse’s zero-code tools. It supports multi-user collaborative training, allowing users to easily switch between different training scenarios as needed.
  • Enhanced Safety: DataMesh Simulator significantly reduces operational safety risks, property damage, and potential risks to life. By simulating dangerous operations within a safe environment, operators gain valuable experience without compromising safety.
  • Comprehensive Training Management: The platform incorporates a comprehensive learning management system with an immersive training experience that enables extensive tracking and feedback on training performance data and assessment methods. It ensures an immersive training experience and seamless integration with mainstream examination systems, supporting various file formats.

DataMesh Simulator empowers businesses to enhance flexibility in training scenarios, reduce training costs, and deliver safer and more reliable training methods and comprehensive training management. By using DataMesh Simulator, SANY and Sunward recreate the operating process of rotary drilling rigs to enhance operational and training efficiency in a digitized manner, significantly reducing accidents caused by inexperienced operators, lowering training costs, and minimizing mechanical wear and tear on equipment.

Setting New Standards for Motion Simulation Training

DataMesh Simulator distinguishes itself from other training platforms through its exceptionally immersive simulation fidelity, realistic motion simulation, and immersive operating cabin experience. Unlike conventional equipment systems with limited visual effects and outdated architecture, DataMesh Simulator utilizes digital twin technology, simulation-based solutions, and motion control to create an authentic sensory experience. It accurately reproduces mechanical states such as movement, tilting, rotation, and vibration, offering a user-friendly UI and simulation system.

Powered by DataMesh’s enterprise metaverse platform, FactVerse, the Simulator offers diverse interactive means for simulation-based training and assessment. Trainees can fully immerse themselves using handheld controllers, displays, pedals, joysticks, control panels, and other interactive elements.

DataMesh Simulator integrates DataMesh Learn training solution, providing a comprehensive and unified assessment system for trainee information management, which supports tracking training progress, editing and distributing examination content, archiving and querying assessment results, and more.

The platform supports private and cloud-based deployment, with a modular approach offering zero-code tools for content creation, enabling customization and upgrades to meet evolving enterprise needs. Additionally, the visual system seamlessly integrates with mainstream VR presentation methods, offering flexibility in adjusting courses and enhancing the overall training experience.

With DataMesh Simulator, trainees can be able to handle equipment in advance and gain valuable experience, addressing challenges such as limited learning time, opportunity and efficiency, and safety in real environments. For enterprises, manufacturers, and training institutions, it provides an efficient, cost-effective, safe, and controllable training solution. By applying digital twin and motion simulation technologies, DataMesh Simulator 2.0 will help drive the development of simulation-based training and provide a new training and assessment approach for the engineering equipment industry.

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Exciting New Features from DataMesh Director 6.0

Today, we are delighted to announce the official release of DataMesh Director 6.0, the industry-leading platform for digital twin content creation and collaboration. This latest version brings comprehensive upgrades to key functionalities, character actions, editing capabilities, and the user interface, offering users an even smoother and enhanced experience.

New Features of DataMesh Studio

Actions serve as the foundation for the expression and interactivity of DataMesh scenarios. In DataMesh Director 6.0, DataMesh Studio introduces seven types of actions: posture adjustment, dispersal, sectioning, disappearance, linking, coloring, and animation. With redesigned configuration methods, users can add these actions to any model node and independently customize the action effects for other nodes.

Linking: Users can now add linking actions to any scene element. Simply clicking on the element seamlessly transitions the scenario from the current page to the target page. Additionally, users have the flexibility to set the trigger range for the linking action within the scene using a convenient drag-and-drop feature, enabling flexible transitions in 3D scenes.

Sectioning: Users can apply sectioning actions to any node and configure the sectioning effects for other nodes, including the sectioning direction and animation. Unlike previous versions, where sectioning was limited to the entire model, version 6.0 enables users to set individual sectioning for each level of child objects. Furthermore, animations have been added for the appearance and disappearance of sectioning actions. DataMesh Studio offers three types of slicing animations to choose from: slicing along the X-axis, Y-axis, or Z-axis.

Dispersal: The dispersal action enables quick disassembly of models. Two methods, explosion and linear dispersal, are available. In version 6.0, users have the flexibility to manually adjust the positions of dispersed models and add dispersal actions to child objects. Alternatively, all dispersal configurations can be completed within a single dispersal action.

Coloring: With the coloring action, users can change the color of any model node, whether it’s the entire model or individual child objects. Two styles of coloring, gradient and flickering, are supported to achieve the desired visual effects.

New Features of DataMesh Importer

Support for Cloud Resources: Importer now allows users to directly open files from the cloud by selecting the “File – Open From Cloud” option.

Model Material Editing: Importer not only reads crucial information such as triangle count, vertex count, texture count, and material count, but also allows users to modify material properties. Materials define surface characteristics, such as color, reflection, and transparency, significantly impacting the appearance and visual effects. Users can now replace the original material with commonly used materials, including metal, wood, plastic, glass, marble, glaze, and concrete.

Moreover, users can adjust various properties, such as color, transparency, metallicness, and smoothness. These properties can be adjusted individually or collectively, providing users with the flexibility to effortlessly achieve their desired effects.

New Features of DataMesh One

DataMesh One has undergone a complete interface redesign, optimizing and enhancing the overall user experience.

DataMesh Director 6.0 is now available on supported application stores, and existing customers who have purchased DataMesh SaaS services can directly upgrade their clients. For product trials, subscriptions, and collaborations, please feel free to contact us directly at service@datamesh.com. We are excited to support you on your journey with DataMesh Director 6.0.

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DataMesh Director 5.4 Released

DataMesh Director 5.4 offers a variety of new features and major enhancements to help users create and manage digital twin resources more quickly and easily, with an optimized user experience. Meanwhile, at this exciting moment, we are presenting the brand-new icons of the DataMesh Director family.

New icons of DataMesh Director

New features of DataMesh Studio

  • NEW pane of the “Resources” library and “Roles” now supports users to adjust the size of the area freely, by clicking and dragging the slider.
  • NEW search function in the “Resources” library has been added. With the new file type filter, users can find resources more quickly.
  • NEW toolbar that features a set of buttons including Home, Save, Undo, and Redo has been added in the upper left corner. Moreover, new capabilities include Group, Ungroup, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
  • NEW “Group” function allows users to group multiple selected roles. Users can create a name for the group, adjust its position and rotate it, in short, using the group as a role.
  • NEW “Light Source” gadget enables users to add light sources to a scene, supporting the configuration of attributes including light intensity, color, and light range. Two light sources are added by default when a scenario is created in DataMesh Director 5.4. Users can then modify the light sources based on their needs afterwards. When a scene is being played, the light source models are automatically hidden.
Adjusting the range of the lighting

Adjusting the angle of the lighting

Adjusting the intensity of the lighting

Adjusting the color of the lighting

New features of DataMesh One

  1. NEW support for the Azure Spatial Anchor function for the positioning of a scenario. Once configured, the positioning of a scenario is set up and remains effective until further changes are made.*
  2. NEW support for scanning a QR code to view 3D resources quickly. The button is in the upper right corner.
  3. The ability to operate 2D resources in scenarios has been enhanced, with new supports including full screen, pause, mute, fast forward, rewind, and pin a 2D resource on top.
  4. The operation panel has been redesigned to improve functionality and users’ efficiency.
  5. Bug fixes and other operational experience optimization.

New features of DataMesh Importer

  1. NEW support for the quick view of models. By dragging a model file onto the Importer icon, users can view the models immediately.
  2. NEW “Operating Parameters” pane to display key parameters such as memory usage, DrawCall, Batches, and FPS.
  3. Bug fixes and other operational experience optimization.

Tips

1. Third-party login is not yet supported on macOS devices.

2. DataMesh One 5.3.3 and earlier versions do not support opening a scenario created by Studio 5.4.

The DataMesh Director 5.4 has been published on all supported platform app stores. Customers who have purchased DataMesh SaaS services can directly upgrade the DataMesh Director client. For any queries, please contact service@datamesh.com.

*Note: The function of spatial anchor requires Microsoft Azure Spatial Anchors services. For the pricing, please visit here.

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DataMesh amongst the Cohort of 100+ Accelerator to help address global sustainability challenges

DataMesh has been selected for Cohort 4 of the 100+ Accelerator amongst the 46 sustainability-focused startups selected, which have all developed unique innovations to address critical sustainability gaps in corporate supply chains.

The award-winning 100+ Accelerator of AB InBev attracted over 1,700 submissions this year, and will be the program’s largest cohort since its launch in 2018 to help make progress on the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and AB InBev’s ambitious goals to advance water stewardship, smart agriculture, circular packaging and climate action.

Each of the Cohort 4 startups will partner with one of the 100+ corporate partners – AB InBev, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever to validate their solution in their supply chain and then scale to make an impact. DataMesh will be piloting with Coca-Cola to create innovative solutions for frontline workers based on DataMesh’s Enterprise Metaverse platform FactVerse, particularly driving inclusive growth globally.

“The 100+ Accelerator is moving faster and dreaming bigger for the future,” said Maisie Devine Sherman, Managing Partner and Founder of the 100+ Accelerator. “We are proud to welcome this new group of passionate entrepreneurs who have dedicated their time and work to finding innovative solutions, products and technology to address the world’s most urgent sustainability challenges.”

“DataMesh has been committed to empowering ordinary people and the community since the first day,” said Jie Li, Founder and CEO of DataMesh. “We are excited about piloting with 100+ Accelerator to help address the sustainability challenges and introduce new technologies and fresh ideas to the front line, by democratizing and making the digital twin and XR technologies more accessible.”

The 100+ Accelerator provides six months of remote programming and training to accelerate the collaboration and growth of cohort companies in addition to a pilot or alliance with partner companies. DataMesh and all participants will receive support from a global team champion, access to mentor networks and up to $100,000 toward pilot execution, eventually graduating to a larger commercial contract and strong relationship with one or more of the partner companies.

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DataMesh FactVerse Now Showcased at Singtel’s FutureNow Innovation Centre

Singapore, November 7, 2022 – DataMesh FactVerse, an Enterprise Metaverse platform for frontline workers, can now be experienced at Singtel’s FutureNow Innovation Centre (FIC), an innovation platform designed to provide customer-centric experiences of compelling use cases by Singtel and its extensive partner ecosystem. DataMesh is collaborating with Singtel to feature two special 5G-enabled showcases at FIC’s Industry 4.0 bay, a digital twin of a smart factory and XR-based 3D modeling training and guidance solution at construction sites.

DataMesh’s industry-leading digital twin and XR-based innovations are in line with the six key industry clusters from the Singapore Government’s Industry Transformation Maps – namely Manufacturing, Built Environment, Trade & Connectivity, Professional Services, and Essential Domestic Services – which the FIC is designed to support.

About the FutureNow Innovation Centre

The FIC features a suite of state-of-the-art technologies that combines Singtel’s technological expertise in ICT and digital services, such as cloud, software-defined networks, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), robotics and 5G. Leveraging these technologies, Singtel helps enterprises transform their business models, unlock new growth opportunities, enhance customer experiences and drive productivity.

About FactVerse

DataMesh FactVerse is an Enterprise Metaverse that brings open-world gaming architecture and scenario designers to the enterprise world, breaking the barrier of spatial data processing and real-time 3D collaboration. This enables frontline workers to harness modern technology and increases productivity at the workplace. Since its official launch in 2022, FactVerse has been widely adopted in automotive factories, cargo airports and large arenas.

FIC presently features two showcases with FactVerse and 5G-enabled innovations from Singtel.

Showcase 1: 5G-enabled Digital Twin in Smart Manufacturing

The first showcase is an Enterprise Metaverse scenario – a digital twin of a smart factory powered by Singtel Paragon, the industry’s first all-in-one platform for 5G network, edge computing and services orchestration. The showcase highlights the efficacy of 5G and its impact on productivity with the concept of a typical smart manufacturing line.

A connection is set up between the models and the physical world through data configuration. Based on the real-time data transferred by 5G/4G, the digital twin demonstrates the status of the physical production line, including motion paths, speed, time spent on a specific task, and the differences in performance when utilizing 5G versus 4G.

The scene intuitively illustrates the advantages of 5G and the incredibly vast opportunities for commercialization of 5G and digital twins to help the digitalization of factories, through real-time monitoring, control, full-scope multi-end simulation, and many other purposes with cost-saving and upgraded performance.

Showcase 2: Digital Twin in Construction

The second showcase features a joint solution currently being trialed at Sentosa in Singapore, in partnership with Gammon and Singtel. It introduces an innovative way of construction, which traditionally involves complicated blueprints and endless inefficient verbal on-site instructions.

In this scene, or at a real construction site, engineers can easily provide XR-based 3D modeling training and guidance to frontline workers with DataMesh Director. The whole process is intuitive for end-users and requires zero coding experience. All collaborators, designers, inspectors and construction workers – whether on-site or remotely, can view the models simultaneously from different angles, and touch and change the model’s properties. The process for construction has never been so seamlessly smooth.

Besides introducing the application of 5G, digital twin and XR in industrial scenarios, these showcases demonstrate the ease with which advanced technologies such as the Industrial Metaverse can be handled by ordinary users – lowering the barrier to entry for cutting-edge applications that used to be accessible only to IT/OT professionals.

“We are excited to collaborate with FIC to create more innovative and impactful showcases of emerging technologies to support enterprises globally,” said Jacky Chan, Managing Partner of DataMesh Singapore. “We look forward to partnering with more industry leaders like Singtel to democratize digital twin and XR to support the digital transformation of enterprises and create greater outcomes for the society.”

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DataMesh Announces Enterprise Metaverse to Democratize Digital Twin and Accelerate Digital Transformation

DataMesh FactVerse makes Digital Twins more accessible; Deploy a Digital Twin in no time with OOTB zero-code tools; Simplified design processes and reuse of digital assets for instant data insights

Singapore, Oct. 20, 2022 – DataMesh today announced DataMesh FactVerse, a new enterprise metaverse platform. Breaking the barriers of spatial data processing and real-time 3D collaboration, DataMesh delivers open-world gaming architecture and scenario designers to the enterprise world. FactVerse Designer, DataMesh Director, Checklist, Inspector, and Simulator are also integrated into FactVerse as dedicated apps.

5G-enabled Digital Twin Use Case deployed by FactVerse at ITAP, Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC

“DataMesh believes in democratizing Digital Twin and XR technologies to empower 2 billion industrial workers worldwide. Henceforth, we’re launching FactVerse to make this technology more accessible,” said Jie Li, Founder and CEO of DataMesh.

“By making digital twin and XR technologies easier to use, more affordable and data-driven, we hope to help front-line workers to optimize their operations and benefit from the digital transformation.”

Making Digital Twins More Accessible

FactVerse is making digital twins more accessible by providing an easy-to-use, cost-effective, and data-driven solution with flexible payment options including a cloud-based pay-as-you-go model, lowering the barrier for ordinary people to adopt a digital twin while addressing technology barriers and data governance challenges. Businesses ranging from startups to mid-sized enterprises to large-scale industry leaders can use digital twins for better performance and cost management.

FactVerse has been applied in automotive factories, cargo airports, and large arenas through various pilot projects. Powered by DataMesh FactVerse Cloud Services, it supports applications across a broad range of scenarios. This allows different user groups from across industries to use CAD, BIM, IoT, knowledge, and process data to build a digital twin platform and XR applications, enabling front-line workers to benefit from modern workspace technology.

Steering Enterprise Motivations by TEMS

The philosophy of DataMesh FactVerse is to use digital twin and enterprise metaverse solutions to address the key challenges of enterprises during their digital transformation journey. FactVerse provides standard digital capabilities for various enterprise assets that make enterprises’ digital transformation easier while meeting compliance requirements.

Based on TEMS Motivations invented by DataMesh, FactVerse helps with common enterprise objectives, including saving costs, increasing productivity, and making innovative breakthroughs, focused on four critical aspects:

Training and Guidance – Digital twins of facilities, 3D instruction, and XR-based guidance (powered by DataMesh Director and Simulator Platform)

Experience – Visualization of digital twin facilities and equipment offering a new experience, allowing users to quickly improve their knowledge of unfamiliar environments without interfering with the production environment (powered by DataMesh Director)

Monitor and Control – Engineering supervision, maintenance, inspection and control of facilities and equipment with visualized data insights (powered by DataMesh Inspector and Checklist)

Simulation – Simulate and restore the real operations and operations logic of equipment/facilities, conducting large-arena planning, training, prediction, and management (powered by DataMesh FactVerse and Simulator Platform)

Futuristic Experience and Data Insights

Delivering a futuristic experience, DataMesh FactVerse powers a digital twin world that is fully visualized, computable, and operational. Digital twin applications can be created using a suite of zero-code tools and services for users with different roles to create, collaborate, and manage metaverse resources to activate data assets, including 3D models, scenes, and real-time production data.

Ease of Use: The standard SDKs for complex DT assets, mainstream BIM/CAD data format OOTB support, cross-platform support OOTB, zero 3D artist involvement for fast implementation, solid runtime backend, and zero-code creation/modification ensure ease of use for front-line workers—even for those without advanced skills.

Immersive Experience and Data Insights: Mobile support, 3D+AR experience, BIM+AR experience, and industry-leading real-time data visualization enable different users to conduct swift project validation and obtain instant data insights, particularly for users from manufacturing, building construction, and facility operations industries. With trackable movement and LMS/Scorecard, organizations can also utilize measurable performance to optimize workflows and processes.

Cost Saving: The zero-code creation for complex tasks, simplified 3D asset processing pipeline, and virtual operations, as well as the cloud-based pay-as-you-go payment model that will be announced shortly, enable organizations to achieve significant cost savings.

The ESG-friendly FactVerse provides a holistic and futuristic metaverse experience by simplifying design processes, realizing the reuse of digital assets and data-driven monitoring and simulation—creating a platform for anyone to build an enterprise metaverse in a way similar to building an open-world game that accelerates digital transformation.

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DataMesh FactVerse is available today. For inquiries or to discuss partnerships, please contact service@datamesh.com.

About DataMesh

DataMesh is a high-tech innovator focusing on digital twin and XR technologies. DataMesh believes in democratizing digital twins to bridge the digital world and the real world to empower front-line workers. Headquartered in Singapore, DataMesh has global operations and offices in Southeast Asia, Japan, China, Australia, and North America, with more than 400 customers in AEC, manufacturing, and facility management industries.

In 2020, DataMesh was the only finalist from Asia for the Microsoft Partner of the Year, Mixed Reality category. DataMesh won NTT Docomo’s top DX award in 2021, was recognized as a Fortune Impact Company in China in 2022, and has made the Forbes Asia 100 to Watch List.

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DataMesh Director 5.3 Released

DataMesh Director 5.3 optimized the user experience and added a variety of new features to help users build digital twin content more quickly and easily.

New features of DataMesh Studio

  1. The function of the viewpoint square in the scene area is added. A 3D viewpoint square will be displayed in the upper right corner of the scene area to show the direction of the current scene. By clicking the square, you can adjust the viewpoint direction.
  1. The new shortcut key “Delete” is used to delete the character (Windows platform).
  2. New shortcut keys “←” and “→” for switching the previous/next Stage.
  3. Add a new scene axis tool, which is enabled in “Settings” → “Accessibility” → “Drag and Drop Navigation”, helping users to drag and drop characters in the scene in a straight line.
  1. Add a new dynamic guide widget. In “Resource Library” → “Components” → “Guidance”, used to mark the road map in the scene, currently supports 4 image forms.
  1. Add a new arrow model library. In the “Resource Library” → “Arrow”, used for marking in the scene, currently 7 new arrow model materials.
  2. Add special effects gadgets for electricity, water, fire, and smoke. In “Library” → “Effects”, currently supports modifying the effect color, life cycle, initial speed, number of particles, direction, and other parameters adjustment.

New features of DataMesh One

  1. New support for displaying dynamic guidance gadgets.
  2. New support for displaying electricity, water, fire, and smoke effects gadgets.

In addition, we have also optimized server-side experiences, including

  1. DataMesh Cloud Services (DCS) resource storage policy
  2. The ability for enterprise administrators to configure the default model acceleration platform to save model acceleration time
  3. New acceleration status column on the user resource details page to make the model acceleration status more intuitive

DataMesh Director 5.3 has been published on all supported platform app stores. Customers who have purchased DataMesh SaaS services can directly upgrade DataMesh Studio and DataMesh One client.

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DataMesh Inspector empowers building inspection and maintenance through Digital Twin + XR

DataMesh released the preview version of DataMesh Inspector (hereafter referred to as Inspector), an inspection and maintenance toolkit powered by digital twin and mixed reality for construction, transport hub management, facility operations, and manufacturing industries. By superposing BIM and real-time data to construction sites and facilities via AR, Inspector visualizes digital twin data in the real world and enables fast inspection throughout the entire life cycle of buildings and facilities. Inspector is also a portal to enterprise metaverse platform DataMesh FactVerse. It allows users to inspect every piece of digital information behind any real-world entity by mixed reality in the near future.

Inspector superposes BIM models to construction sites in 1:1 ratio

Inspector provides a variety of functions, such as construction problem marking, dynamic loading of BIM, inspection recording, allowing project supervisors, operations, and maintenance professionals to cope with everyday challenges in construction and operations scenarios, like the inconvenience of viewing BIM drawing on-site, difficulties of concealed construction inspection. The users can project their BIM design to the work site in a 1:1 ratio with simply a mobile device, quickly identifying the differences between the design and the implementation. Users can also check the layout of concealed works (like gas, electricity, water, radiators, and other utilities).

DataMesh Inspector Preview provides the following features:

Positioning: Users can add multiple positioning markers, i.e., Inspector Markers, in their BIM models. By scanning the QR code of the Marker on-site, users can project the corresponding scene to the construction site immediately.

Recording: During an on-site inspection, users can record a comparison image of the 3D view of their BIM superposed to the on-site scene anytime, add descriptions (such as describing construction problems) and upload them for later inspection review and issue resolution.

Dynamic Loading: Dynamically load and display BIM content based on positioning markers and user’s movements.

Inspector dynamically loads BIM content as the user moves

Content Layering: Support displaying and hiding of BIM information for layered display

Project Information Panel: Users can view detailed project information of an object by clicking it in the model.

Management: Users can create project workgroups to manage scene resources. Construction supervisors, project managers, designers, and front-line workers can enter Inspector App anytime to view the design and communicate for the next steps.

Offline Mode: Support caching of scene resources. In offline mode, users can access all functions, such as browsing the complete BIM information, viewing detailed object information, and adding inspection records.

Visualizing BIM in the real world and rapidly inspecting parts enables improvements in inspection efficiency, construction productivity, and quality. 

Inspector helps address concealed work inspection challenges

About DataMesh

DataMesh is a high-tech innovator specialized in building Enterprise Metaverse with Digital Twin and XR technology. DataMesh FactVerse helps organizations leverage CAD, BIM, IoT, knowledge, and process data to create a digital twin platform, connecting the digital and the real world. DataMesh empowers front-line workers in manufacturing, construction, and operations, improving their management and execution capabilities. DataMesh works alongside customers across China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, North America, and more markets, where many constructions and manufacturing companies have adopted DataMesh software.

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