Hexagon, the global leader in reality technology, recently presented a data-rich digital twin of the Qutub Shahi Tombs to the Government of Telangana. This digital twin of the 16th-century heritage site is a proof-of-concept of Hexagon’s Reality Technology for Smart Cities capabilities.
In an interview, Mr. Navaneet Mishra, Senior Vice President & Head of Hexagon’s R&D Center India, sheds light on how Digital technologies for Smart Cities Can Preserve Rich Heritage of India.
Can Digital Technologies for Smart Cities Can Preserve Rich Heritage of India?
The Qutub Shahi Tombs Digital Twin project is a fully functional proof-of-concept of Hexagon’s Digital Heritage for Smart Cities, demonstrating how we can help preserve the rich heritage of our country. The data-richness of Hexagon’s digital reality will make it easy for governments, planners, and conservationists of smart-cities to make data-driven decisions. We are excited to have developed this for Telangana and look forward to more such possibilities across India.
Read more:- Buyofuel: Revolutionizing the Biofuel Industry – In Conversation with Mr. Kishan Karunakaran, CEO
How the innovation and reality technologies can be used to protect our past while advancing smart cities for our future?
The creation of this digital twin of the iconic Qutub Shahi Tombs is a step towards our vision of digitally safeguarding cultural heritage sites across the globe. Our work in Hyderabad demonstrates how forward-looking innovation and reality technologies can be used to protect our most valued connections to the past while advancing smart cities for our future.
Hexagon brought together its suite of cutting-edge software and hardware technologies, including 3D scanning, geospatial mapping, and reality capture to generate 10.7 billion data points for the creation of the digital representation of the landmark. The team utilized devices including Leica BLK2FLY, an autonomous flying drone equipped with a LiDAR scanner, along with the BLK2GO, and RTC 360, capable of capturing an astounding 2 million points per second. The GS18i complemented these devices for geo-referencing the point cloud.
In the final stage, Hexagon’s digital-reality platform HxDR applied advanced AI solutions to stitch together a point-cloud mesh and data-rich actionable digital twin. The new digital version of the historic site enables data-driven decision-making, real-time analytics, visualisations, and simulations.
Can you throw some light on the Global Smart Cities market?
The global Smart Cities market size is estimated at USD 1.36 trillion in 2024. It is expected to reach USD 3.84 trillion by 2029 (CAGR of 23.21%)
Can you throw some light on the India Smart Cities market and going forward what are the prospects?
India is expected to see a significant growth in revenue within the Smart Cities market. Projections indicate that by 2024, the revenue in this market segment is estimated to reach US$2.33billion. Further anticipated that this revenue will demonstrate a steady annual growth rate of 14.89% from 2024 to 2028. India is witnessing a surge in the implementation of smart city initiatives, leveraging advanced technologies to improve urban infrastructure and enhance the quality of life for its citizens.
The Smart City Mission launched by PM Modi in 2015 encourages the drive towards Smart Cities in India.
Can you talk about the capability of Hexagon in delivering smart solutions?
Hexagon’s Digital Reality and Autonomous Technologies are proven to be critical to Smart Cities around the world, delivering smart solutions for public safety and administration; manage transportation, utilities, and communication infrastructure; digitally map geography and physical property; and integrate resiliency into industrial and commercial assets to ensure our cities and nations remain sustainable.
Hexagon delivers at a huge scale and has, in fact, delivered the digital twin of entire countries, such as the Netherlands, in partnership with Cyclomedia.
Follow: InsightConvey
