When you see those two acronyms above, GIS and BIM, do you immediately grasp what this post is going to be about? Do you know what both of those acronyms represent? Their relevance to OSS? They’re not exactly widespread OSS terms.
Many would be familiar with GIS (Geographic Information Systems). We’ve all seen OSS data, especially network topologies, overlaid onto map / GIS views.
How about BIM (Building Information Modeling)? Have you ever come across BIM representations of telco assets? BIMs are used for the 3D representation of objects, like the mobile tower below.
BIMs have been used by architects, civil engineers, construction workers and many others for years. We haven’t had much use for them in telco yet. But that’s sure to change once we embrace asset lifecycle management in the third dimension – and consider them in the third-dimension from end-to-end – all the way from design to build to maintain to decommission – to bring greater situational awareness to our widespread workforces.
As reported on Engineering News-Record, two of the dominant players in the network design space – Esri and Autodesk – have announced a collaborative product, which provides a cue for our future-of-work in telco too. Esri’s GIS and Autodesk’s CAD / BIM products had previously been evolving side-by-side for years. Merging the combined benefits of their data sets required significant manual intervention. The Esri – Autodesk collaboration mans GIS-to-BIM workflows and experiences are more seamless.
Why would two massive organisations (Autodesk has a market cap of $45B, Esri is a private company, but whose annual revenues are believed to exceed $1B) seek to work together on joint products? Probably a number of reasons, but the increasing application of digital twins / triplets is surely one market they’re seeking to serve.
This is an exciting space to see what other products follow and evolve to augment our OSS.
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