What’s new?

Past few months OpenCities released some new cool stuff…

 

Error Pages

With the next update, we will release a new Error notification feature. From now on, if we experience difficulties, we will notify the users by showing an “Error page” prior to showing the project view or the OpenCities editor. Depending on the severity of the issues we’re experiencing, we will show two types of pages:

•  One that notifies the users that the project might not run as expected (backgrounds may not load, a project might be very slow, objects might be missing), where the user can still choose to access the project to view it or work on it.
• The other, is where the user is notified that we are experiencing issues but without the option for the user to enter the editor or view the project. The latter will be shown only when OpenCities is completely down and can not be reached, which we hope will never happen.

In both cases, the users will be notified that something is wrong, that our team is working on it, and can expect a fix for the problems as soon as possible.

 

Auto-Populate search values for Advanced Query

The Advanced Query Tool now automatically populates the possible values within the properties values list. The filtering of possible values is executed as the user chooses values for the properties. It is based on previous selections and the list will keep refining based on these selections.

This offers a better user experience, as the user does not need to know exactly what they need to search for. This Advanced Query Tool is in a pilot phase and can be available to users on request.

 

Linked Document Download

Advanced Query and Object selection searches are also available in the Advanced Query tool which now enables ProjectWise documents related to the Query executed in OpenCities to be brought up.

This way, OpenCities becomes a single access point for both the graphical representation and the documentation in ProjectWise with the available downloading option for the documents, providing any stakeholder quick access to all documents related.

Siemensstadt Square Project: A Twin in Berlin

Bentley Systems and Siemens are collaborating on a massive project in Berlin, an entire city district of over 70 hectares called, appropriately, Siemensstadt Square (Siemens City). By 2035, this space will be occupied by industrial operations, commercial activities, research, education, and social infrastructure. The challenge is to create a sustainable, inclusive living environment while continuing industrial operations. It’s an exciting urban infrastructure project

To achieve that vision, Siemens is building the district twice – first in the digital world and then in the real one. During the planning and designing phase, right through to construction and operations, a digital twin of the city will enable all stakeholders from engineers and architects to surveyors and construction workers to collaborate and connect. By giving the general public access to the digital twin, the city planners can also facilitate dialogue with the community, taking their concerns and ideas into account as construction progresses.

This is how we see the future of Siemensstadt leveraging the power of interactive 3D infrastructure digital twins. That’s how exciting infrastructure can be.

Watch for yourself in this video or visit the project link Siemensstadt Square project

Bentley’s Year In Infrastructure (YII):OpenCities projects Winners and Finalists

In this year’s Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure (YII), Sydney Airport won the Facilities, Campuses and Cities award. They outlined a passionate presentation to the jurors on how Digital Twin has introduced operational efficiency within their workforce across the various departments, creating a collaborative working environment and increasing their confidence in making informed decisions within seconds. They justified savings of $ 1m AUD on just a handful of use cases, and predict that the savings will increase as more colleagues and data sources are connected to create an evergreen, holistic digital twin. They plan to rollout out the solution to ~500 users in 2023. Congratulations on your big win!

The Kaunas University of Technology, Center for Smart Cities and Infrastructure, also a Finalist in the same category, gave an outstanding presentation on their Kaunas Digital Twin. This Digital Twin is a continuous project focusing on the digitalization of the built environment by integrating different digitalization technologies and applying them to practical real-world tasks.

Thank you both for sharing your success with our products and your successful implementation of your Digital twins.

You can watch both presentations here:

• FACILITIES, CAMPUSES, AND CITIES – Sydney Airport
• FACILITIES, CAMPUSES, AND CITIES – Kaunas University of Technology