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Who are you? Hello! I’m John Tapsfield – CTO of Urban Hawk Ltd a massive massive realtime engine for simulation of GIS and internal spaces (and data, RF, Teleco and Network access data – and even radar data).
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What is your industry and profession? Product & Project management, design and one time Drupal Web Development company owner (everything needs more abstraction layers…) – for Urban Hawk it’s all about finding the right partners to provide data and the right customers to offer data back into. Our focus is transport but a lot of queries are very similar and we’re looking at more hollistic modelling- e.g. beyond the digital twin of a key point of infrastructure to include the externalities and transport and logistics that serve it – since nothing exists in a void (except CAD models and time expired 3D twins). Where do you plan to use your new Digital Twin Knowledge? Personally/professionally?
For the benefit of the community and develop a network which will allow us to tie together lots of disparate capabilities. Inherently we have a positive sum benefit to seeing a common standard emerge – however we can also be a point of conversion (a neccessity given our product) since not everyone needs the huge 3D or 4D datasets (we do spatial data over time – which gets horrendously large quickly).
In short we want to move the needle along – its’ not certain yet if our front end is just a feature or a service – since a lot of the customers we’ve spoken to like the effects they can render in Unreal or Unity – but the data layer beneath is often just a model *(ie strip away a wall / change something and it’s just an empty mesh beneath).
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Why have you decided to join the DTHub?
The network benefits and to see what the SOTA and what opportunities exist with the Digital Twin Hub and it’s membership.
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Have you participated in any of our meetups, or events?
Not yet, but I am tracking them and hope to attend soon – life and schedules are very busy on all fronts at the moment!
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Do you have any examples of work that you have done using Digital Twins?
We’ve pulled in an open street map database of the UK and can instantiate massive chunks of it at the same time – then zoom down to station level. So 50m > 10cm.
It depends on the use case of course – and we’ve simulated everything from ship wakes – to sense through the wall radars for firefighter tracking. To quote Start Trek – Context is for Kings – and we wish to provide that to our user base.
You can see some of the publicly published work here:
We’re open to partnerships, proposals and invitations! Do please get in touch. We’re always happy to speak to people in this field.
Thanks and looking forward to hearing more from you all!
John
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Who are you? Hello! I’m John Tapsfield – CTO of Urban Hawk Ltd a massive massive realtime engine for simulation of GIS and internal spaces (and data, RF, Teleco and Network access data – and even radar data).