Development of a 3D internet collaborative platform dedicated to the management of real estate objects in urban areas
Conception and development of a 3D internet collaborative platform dedicated to the management of real estate objects in urban areas which extends the architecture for modelling semantics of urban objects.
Status > FINISHED - 26-Apr-2012
Technological Area
1.2.14 / Internet Technologies Market Area
12.1.2 / Real estate Start Date > 02-Feb-2009
End date > 02-Feb-2012 Duration > 36 Months
Actual cost > 1.62 M€ Participating countries > FRANCE, GERMANY | Main contact GROUPE ARCHIMEN
Rue Rene Char, 2
210 00 -DIJON > FRANCE
Tel. +33 3 80 53 95 95
Fax. +33 3 80 53 96 04 Mr. Benoit Vervandier > C.E.O.
b.vervandier@archimen.net http://www.active3d.net Organisation type > SME |
Project Description
The 3D software market dedicated to real estate management is constantly evolving under the pressure of tough environmental laws and regulations. Software manufacturers have to adapt their products and identify priorities for R&D efforts in order to develop tools addressing sustainable development of urban areas.
GROUPE ARCHIMEN is a French SME (Small and Medium sized Enterprise) specialised in software for real estate management (www.active3d.net/archimen). Their software is able to manage single building objects only. Requirements exist concerning integration of these buildings into their environment.
LAT/LON is a German GIS (Geographical Information System) software developer. The software is not dedicated to building management but to geographical management including 3D city models.
The two companies have already checked that their technological software environments are compatible.
The partners are setting up a 24-month project aimed at developing a 3D internet collaborative platform dedicated to the management of real estate in urban areas which will extend the architecture for modelling semantics of urban objects.
Technological Development Envisaged
Handling of 3D city models and building models is today well established in their respective domains and based on international standards. The building models are included in real estate technical software. Geospatial data for city models is handled by 3D-aware GIS Software. However, there are no well-established interfaces between the two domains and the respective software packages.
Main contact lat/lon
Aennchenstr., 19
3177 -BONN > GERMANY
Tel. +49 228 184 960 > Fax. +49 228 184 96-29 Mr. Jens Fitzke > C.E.O.
fitzke@lat-lon.de http://www.lat-lon.de Organisation type > SME
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Contribution to project
The organisation is the technical partner of the SIG-A3D project. The company will contribute to each task needing its expertise on geospatial and internet-based information systems.
Expertise
Since the foundation of the organisation, LAT/LON's activities have focused on the know-how about open standards for geospatial information processing. This is the basis for consulting, software development, training and support such that customers can rely on a comprehensive service package focused on open solutions.
The commitment within the DEEGREE project illustrates that vendor independence and standardisation are closely coupled to the concept of ‘Free Software’ at LAT/LON. Currently, DEEGREE is the most substantial implementation of OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) and ISO standards in the field of Free Software. It builds the foundation for numerous productive components of spatial data infrastructures - in GERMANY, Europe and worldwide.
* SERVICES:
- Consulting for spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) and standards of Open Geospatial Consortiums (OGC);
- System setup: software development, adaptation of solutions, integration and configuration of GI-systems on the basis of degree;
- Support for your own employment of degree;
- Training and workshops about OGC & SDI.
* PRODUCTS:
- deegree Web Services: OGC-services like WMS (Web Map Service), WFS (Web Feature Service), WCS (Web Coverage Service) and CSW (Catalogue Services for Web);
- deegree iGeoPortal: basis for web-based SDI-Clients;
- deegree iGeoSecurity: extensive security mechanisms for spatial data infrastructures;
- deegree iGeo3D - 3D-City and Terrain Models;
- deeJUMP: the SDI-Desktop.
Contribution to project
The organisation is the project leader and will manage:
- the preparatory works;
- the progress of development parts;
- the tests and validation phase;
- technical project management.
Expertise
GROUPE ARCHIMEN develops a collaborative web platform called Active3D. This software is used to follow and manage information around the life cycle of each building, from the beginning during studies and building construction to maintenance and facilities.
Active3D is a collaborative platform which is used as a support for data exchange and data repository. This platform won the technological innovation gold medal at the international show BATIMAT in Paris in November 2003. It has been marketed since this date. Currently, several modules are being developed, such as Electronic Document Management (EDM). This application is used during the design and the construction steps to store and exchange documents (contracts, plans, invoices, pictures, etc.). It is also used during the exploitation and the maintenance steps to reach the documents which are attached to IFC objects of the Digital Mock-Up (DMU) in 3 Dimensions (maintenance contracts, user manuals, etc.). A module dedicated to the facility management has been developed which makes it possible to dynamically build a trade view of a building from an IFC 2x3 file. A set of tools has been included in this application (a query engine, a document generator, an alarm manager, a task planner and an IFC viewer). Each IFC object can easily be handled by any process. The IFC objects can be configured to contain Web service links from electronic catalogues of furniture and equipment, documents, ad hoc data or rules. All information can be managed by a 3D graphical interface certified IFC 2x3 by the International Alliance for Interoperability (www.active3d.net).
This platform is mainly used to federate all the actions realised on a building during its lifecycle, to merge all information relating to these actions in semantic graphs, to extract some trade views of the building by combining information collected during the lifecycle from heterogeneous sources, and to handle all these views through a dynamic and adaptive 3D interface. Currently, the Active3D platform is supporting more than 100 specific building information systems where more than 400 actors from all civil engineering domains collaborate at each step of the building lifecycle. This platform was bought by French administrations (e.g. the Administrative Council of Burgundy, the city of Paris, etc.) and private companies.
In 2003, Active3D won the gold medal of innovative technology at the International Show Batimat’03 held in Paris. In 2008, more than six million square meters of buildings were managed with this architecture.
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