From point cloud to target system: an end-to-end information chain for Hamburger Energienetze.
What emerges when four companies, each among the specialists in its field, don't merely place their expertise side by side but consistently combine it?
Lang&Lang GmbH, ioLabs AG, Rink Vermessung GbR and BIK GmbH took on this challenge together as part of a two-stage European tender issued by Hamburger Energienetze.
The task: from the physical asset to a reliable digital as-built record
The brief is demanding: a consistent, structured and digitally usable as-built data model is to be created for the substations and switchgear installations of Hamburger Energienetze.
This involves far more than digitising existing information. The data must be reliably captured on site, structured, modelled and quality-assured – and then be usable end to end in the designated target systems Revit, SAP, ePLAN and Forma Build (ACC).
From the physical asset through to the digital model, a continuous information chain is created.
And all of this in a particularly demanding environment: energy infrastructure is critical infrastructure. Alongside the professional and technical requirements, KRITIS requirements and heightened information security standards must therefore be rigorously observed.
Four competencies – one end-to-end solution
This is precisely where the strength of our joint approach lies.
HWR Rink Vermessung uses state-of-the-art technology to create a highly precise digital replica of the existing installations and infrastructure. On-site reality, in the form of point clouds and photographs, is the starting point of the digital process chain.
ioLabs AG contributes its distinctive capabilities and experience in developing custom software and automation solutions for model creation. In particular, ioLabs AG will structure and visualise the point cloud data, link it together and make it available for further digital use, and integrate Autodesk technology (Revit, ReCap, Forma).
BIK GmbH takes the captured data and harmonises, structures and links it so that it is available to our client as knowledge that can be retrieved on demand.
Lang&Lang, as experienced project managers with a strong affinity for IT and processes, shape digitalisation from an engineering and lean management perspective. Lang&Lang design end-to-end digital processes and create the conditions for efficient cross-company collaboration in the cloud. They guide change.
What is decisive is the connection between these four individual disciplines.
From the high-precision survey of the physical asset through modelling, structuring and quality assurance to the delivery of information in the target systems, a continuous digital process and data chain emerges.
In doing so, we deploy current technologies deliberately where they create tangible added value – without losing sight of the particular requirements of a KRITIS environment.
The result is a reliable digital foundation for planning, operation, collaboration and future decisions.
Taking the next steps together
We are delighted to now be realising this innovative solution together with Hamburger Energienetze.
Two exciting and challenging years lie ahead. Two years in which we want to do more than deliver a demanding technical solution. Our ambition goes further: as a cross-company project team, we want to show what becomes possible when specialists consistently combine their competencies, share knowledge and explore new paths together.
And with the results and experience from this project, we want to provide impetus that reaches beyond the project itself – for the digitalisation of energy infrastructure and for the energy sector as a whole.
Four companies. Four highly specialised competencies. One joint project. And one shared conviction:
The best digital solutions don't come from one party being able to do everything, but from specialists combining their competencies into a seamless whole.
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