Geo Week News

2 days ago | geoweeknews.com | Eric Van Rees

Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division last month announced the global “as-a-service” roll-out of its Digital Factory solution. Digital Factory-as-a-service deploys a team of Hexagon scanning experts to manufacturers worldwide to capture highly accurate up-to-date information about their plants and equipment. This process identifies needs, defines workflows for collecting data, and delivers BIM models and custom services to help leverage and analyze the full potential of the factory data.

4 days ago | geoweeknews.com | Matt Collins

For the business world, the last couple of years has been defined by the boom around artificial intelligence. While some forms of this tool – and related innovations like machine learning and computer vision that have effectively been brought under the AI umbrella in mainstream conversations – have long existed, the emergence of large-language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have captured the minds of people around the world, both positively and negatively.

5 days ago | geoweeknews.com | Matt Collins

Sponsored by OXTSReal-time localization is a crucial capability for many applications within the geospatial industry, and a growing number of applications outside of it as well. Consider, for example, the growing market around autonomous vehicles. For these vehicles to be deemed safe for use, OEMs have to be able to accurately and reliably verify the vehicles location throughout its journey, whether that’s out in the countryside, in a built-up urban environment, or even a tunnel.

1 week ago | geoweeknews.com | Matt Collins

One of the common themes you’ll hear these days when talking with people in the AEC industry, particularly firm leaders, is that the reputation around the sector is deservedly changing. After years of a (sometimes exaggerated) reputation of being technological laggards, that is clearly no longer the case, and really isn’t how even forward-thinkers in the industry think about their colleagues anymore.

1 week ago | geoweeknews.com | Eric Van Rees

Topcon Collage Site software enhancementsCollage Site by Topcon is an innovative field software platform designed to collect, process and view point cloud data in real time, directly on-site. Traditional scanning workflows require capturing data in the field, returning to the office, and then processing it into a usable point cloud.