Digital Twins

Build a digital twin faster than ever.

Optimise operations by effortlessly creating digital twins of real-world systems.

What is Anacle Gemini?

Anacle Gemini™ Digital Twin is a cloud-based visualisation platform which enables collaboration across real estate operations. Developed on the Unity Gaming Engine for rapidly building 3D representations of a building and its assets, the platform unlocks architectural, BIM, operational and financial data and presents this valuable insights back to the building owner and operator, within the context of an accurate virtual model. Viewed through desktop, mobile or smart glasses, with enhance diagnostics capabilities with “X-Ray Vision”.

Full virtual replicas.

A digital twin is a data-rich, interactive model which mirrors its built asset, both in appearance and substance.

Gain a holistic view.

Connect real-life assets with their IoT data, giving users both holistic and granular visibility of the information that matters most to them.

Learn from the data.

Simulate future “what-if” scenarios, gain new insights that are invaluable for the efficient running of a facility.

Why use a digital twin?

Digital twins are an exceptional way of capturing buildings and spaces in immersive 3D and can move the needle across many industry use cases. For decades, engineers have used computer-aided design (CAD) to create 3D twins of buildings and other assets—including NASA spacecraft. Now, with the convergence with smart building systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, see your building and its digital twin connected and watch them evolve together over time.

Enhance tenant experience

Monitor live and historical temperature, occupancy, and air-quality data within rooms and open spaces to improve occupant comfort.

Equipment uptime

Remotely diagnose equipment issues with immediate access to all relevant operational data to enable faster decisions.

Improve energy efficiency

Look for spikes in energy usage, inefficient systems, or wasteful practices. Identify trends, patterns, and areas of improvement.

Maximise asset performance

Quickly pinpoint and address equipment and process anomalies from the plant floor to improve worker productivity and efficiency.

Digital twins. Real-world applications.

Digital twins are proving instrumental to different industries, for commercial real estate and corporate real estate, across the asset lifecycle from aquisition, construction to operation. Here are some examples:

Digital Workplace

Smart Cities

Industrial & Warehouse

Retail Malls

Data Centres

Portfolio & Investment

Stages of Digital Twin evolution.

According to the Verdantix maturity model, there are five stages of digital twin evolution. Essentially, the more mature the twin is, the more valuable it becomes.

1. Descriptive Twin

Acting as a foundation for a facility’s data, all of the building-related information is consolidated into a virtual model which accurately reflects its real-world structure.

2. Informative twin

This goes beyond housing the building’s information, it connects to IOT and sensor data giving you complete visibility of how your assets, spaces, and systems are operating together.

3. Predictive twin

A digital twin can use its historical data to run analytics and predict trends—enabling the operator to take a more proactive approach, preempting issues before they arise.

4. Comprehensive twin

As the digital twin continues to evolve, real-time simulation for future “what-if” scenarios become possible. At this stage, the insights gained are truly invaluable for the efficient running of a facility.

5. Autonomous twin

The ultimate business value comes at this final stage of maturity. The twin will have the data and processes established to automatically take action based on the insights it delivers.

How to Create a Digital Twin.

Building and scaling a Digital Twin requires a 5-step approach: creating a blueprint, capturing the space, building the initial digital twin and data model, then boosting capabilities.

Aligning stakeholders on a clear vision of Digital Twins is a crucial first step. A blueprint should define; the types of twins the organisation will pursue, the order for building them to maximize value and reusability, the way their capabilities will evolve, and their ownership and governance structures.

Digital twins 3d models can be created from variety of plans or scans. Anacle has developed a 2.5D Space Editor that allows users to update the space of your building in a quick and easy way. With Autocad files, the 2.5D space can be
created within minutes and then tagged to get the metrics from the system.

Scan to CAD plan:

Schematic Scan to Plan:
Raster (image) schematic plans created from sectioned views of the point cloud. This is a low-cost way to visualize the layout of a space, and an ideal option for projects that don’t require scaled CAD plans.

Architectural Scan to Plan:
2D AutoCAD AIA-compliant architectural drawings, to scale and accurate to ¼” to ⅝” (USIBD LOA30). Great for space planning, rentable area calculations, renovation planning, and facilities management scenarios.

Scan to BIM:
Scanning pros can come to your site and perform 3D Laser Scanning with powerful Geosystems scanners. Anacle will use point cloud data to create an Autodesk Revit model.

Architectural Scan to BIM:
Suitable for use in subsequent design work by an architectural firm or in facilities management platforms.

Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) Scan to BIM:
Suitable for retrofit or pre-renovation planning, or for pipe, ducting, and conduit routing and coordination.

Other ways to capture space range from 3D Laser Scanning and Virtual Walkthroughs, to Drone and UAV or Mesh Models. All can be layered into a digital twin.

Anacle’s developers, artists, and engineers work with the Unity Game engine to build and deliver custom real-time 3D experiences for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), mobile, desktop, and web.

We can now prepare your 3D and CAD data with flexible data ingestion pipelines faster than ever before. Importing of more than 40 different CAD and 3D file types, preserving critical hierarchy and metadata for your application, while letting you configure your data to perform on any target device.

Anacle lead the design and build for digital twins. We gather all stakeholders from business, IT and data science teams to ensure solutions and visualitations meet objectives.

The data model is built around the four pillars of data integrity: integration, data quality, enrichment, and location intelligence. All four are essential, but for many organizations, integration is the foundation without which the other three cannot deliver on their full potential. Integration ensures that data can be synchronised across multiple platforms, that information is kept up-to-date, and that ultimately, corporate data can be brought together under one roof where it can truly provide maximum value with advanced analytics.

A digital twin can use its historical data to run analytics and predict trends—enabling the operator to take a more proactive approach, preempting issues before they arise.

Once the digital twin’s initial use cases are up and running, it’s time to expand its capabilities by adding more data layers and analytics to support new use cases such as what-if simulations and prescriptions through the use of AI and advanced modeling techniques.

Unlock new insights.

Digital twins have become critical business tools for leading companies, the technology is now more accessible than ever, no matter their level of digital sophistication. As a result, Anacle digital twins have become key tools for optimising processes and unlocking new insights for decision making.

Lease and financial performance.

Unlock the power of your lease and asset portfolio with a unified data source for critical insights that improve lease portfolio performance.

Energy and consumption.

Analyse energy consumption and usage spikes, both in entirety and in each space within the building.

Maintenance and repairs.

Improve asset management and reduce maintenance costs by providing accurate insights into breakdowns, repairs and performance.

Vacancy and utilisation.

Optimise space management, fill vacancies and plan the best tenant mix with utilisation and financial insights.

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