FEATURE
A value innovation approach helps more FMs experience the benefits of visualisation technology in a fit-for-purpose way while introducing new capability.
Mapping buildings Visually mapping data provides a number of benefits:
• Quicker intuitive understanding.
• Better communication and collaboration with colleagues making it easier to explain why work, such as renovation or refurbishment, needs to be approved.
• More transparency of the often hidden ‘iceberg’ of site team work.
• Easier to spot clusters e.g. frequent maintenance activities in a room or building.
• With multiple sites there’s less need to travel meaning you can operate more sustainably while saving time and money.
• Contractors are better able to operate on a first visit first fix basis.
Different levels of visualisation can provide these benefits and so a ‘pick-and-mix’ approach depending upon organisational need is required.
Interactive site and floor plans By mapping data on your existing plans you can immediately get started. They provide an at-a-glance view of jobs or assets. Equally importantly they show where no work is needed – i.e. those areas which are performing well.
This helps shape decisions about where to direct resources for maximum effect. You may have intuitively focused on the red markers in the screen shot given it’s used as a warning colour. In this example it shows urgent jobs so without any prior knowledge you were already instinctively homing in on the spaces needing attention.
Real-world 360° images What if we could integrate a 2D plan view with a 360° view to give us a Google Street View type experience but indoors?
Cameras such as the one to the right, costing £300 - £400, create 360° images called photospheres.
At this price point FMs can create and update photospheres as and when needed without needing specialist training. They also don’t have to rely on external assistance unless there’s a particular need to.
Photospheres can show jobs or assets, in a real-world view as well as on a plan in a CAFM. This view can be zoomed and panned and the 360° photospheres linked together allowing you to walk a building from the comfort of your desk.
• Tag a point on the plan or in 360° and see it co-located in both views.
• Visually pin-point an asset needing work rather than relying purely on a description. No more repairs to the wrong assets.
• You, and contractors, can see any access issues/ prepare draft quotes without visiting the site.
• Visually mark-up areas that might need refurbishment.
3D scans and models 3D models offer another way to manage data enabling you to explore a space from multiple angles.
The hardware for creating scans is rapidly developing and reducing in cost. For high end scans expensive scanners are still needed but consumer level devices, costing around £1,000, can now be used for fit-for-purpose scanning putting the power to create and maintain them directly at operational FM level.
Scans can be used for identifying the location of works and assets. Importantly this data is still available to see in the plan and 360° views providing complete flexibility whether you’re interested in that birds’ eye or in-room view of your data.
Remember I mentioned IoT and BIM? By linking any IoT enabled devices to data in the plan, 360° or 3D visualisations they become digital twins of the real-world.
This means you can immediately and readily assess asset performance. For example, monitoring indoor air quality or remotely viewing which asset is failing.
A heat map of current and historical information emphasises this even more. Imagine presenting this to colleagues or decision-makers when trying to convey which spaces need refurbishment work.
There’s no need to be an expert to quickly appreciate where work is needed.
These 2D visual insights provide a birds’ eye view of data which a textual screen can’t deliver. Technology now allows us to go one step further by complementing 2D with 360° and 3D data displays.
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These simple digital twins can become the first step on the journey towards BIM by providing a feedback loop from the operation and maintenance (O&M) as-maintained state back to the as-built, as-designed states.
A value-based approach to innovation with the customer always in mind will help the FM industry move forward as a whole. Using this strategy cascades the benefits of new and existing technology to all - democratising and levelling up the playing field.
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