Public agencies test digital twin tool for improved asset monitoring
December 19, 2023
John Barone, ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½¡¯s infrastructure technology lead, shares how to improve bridge monitoring with digital twin technology in Engineering News-Record
Public agencies are testing a tool that could take monitoring of bridges and dams to a higher level by using data from drones and sensors in a digital twin. Bentley¡¯s iTwin Applications for Situational Intelligence aims to provide operational insights, improve decision-making and augment inspection processes by using reality meshes.
The city of Denver agreed to let ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ monitor a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge over the Platte River using the tool. ¡°It¡¯s a unique bridge¡ªcable-stayed with columns arching away from the bridge,¡± says John Barone, infrastructure technology lead with ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½. ¡°We¡¯re still in the process of getting data.¡±
The ²ÝÝ®´«Ã½ team uses drone footage to create a reality capture of the bridge, along with an array of sensors to capture real-time conditions, combining the existing conditions model with the bridge design model.
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