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Susan Smith
Susan Smith has worked as an editor and writer in the technology industry for over 16 years. As an editor she has been responsible for the launch of a number of technology trade publications, both in print and online. Currently, Susan is the Editor of GISCafe and AECCafe, as well as those sites’ … More » IMAGINiT on “The challenge of managing big datasets”January 9th, 2015 by Susan Smith
At Autodesk University 2014 held in Las Vegas in December, Joe Hedrick, Infrastructure Solutions Team Manager, IMAGINiT Technologies, spoke with GISCafe about how projects in general are becoming bigger, along with ever-increasing use of reality capture. IMAGINiT is a provider of software, training, support and services to design and engineering companies and Autodesk Authorized Reseller and Autodesk Training Center.  The InfraWorks 360 Model Builder cloud service allows users to select a city-scale area from a map of the world in order to generate 3D city models in minutes. “Bigger datasets, more partners and consultants are involved,” said Hedrick. “We continue to see a huge increase in people looking for ways to manage data. We’ve had several contracts with the army where they are managing everything from facility drawings to various documents and spreadsheets. In addition, private and commercial engineering and architectural firms are looking for ways to share data and projects.” IMAGINiT will sometimes have to build tools inhouse, but mostly they use Autodesk Vault for integrations and data storage. “Commercial firms may want to tie into accounting, and we have integrations into some of the popular accounting packages out there,” said Hedrick. “We’re in the middle of a big one for the government. We are using our system and then programmatically writing to the data tables that they have in place.” A cheaper solution to integration and managing data is Autodesk’s Fusion A360, said Hedrick. “I think it will change how we manage data. It’s going to integrate very nicely into the design platforms and apps.” With data management, Hedrick said the biggest challenge is the size of the models. “How do you share a model that could be several gigabytes? With one of the army projects, we’re talking about 3 TB of data. How do we share that information? With pure sizes, there’s not a great way to share that amount of information. This becomes particularly difficult when you incorporate scanned data into it.” Hedrick said it used to be hard to find anyone to embrace the cloud but now the government is beginning to embrace it and the security is better. The cloud holds a lot of promise for managing large datasets and is being offered as a service in the InfraWorks 360 Model Builder cloud service.
Among the supporting products for data management is InfraWorks. InfraWorks from Autodesk addresses the conceptual design and planning space of a project, a capability Autodesk didn’t have before. This product is a standalone, built from the ground up, not incorporating past Autodesk products. It works in conjunction with Autodesk Civil 3D, and you can take data out of one and put it in the other. InfraWorks takes existing information of all types and geospatial information to develop accurate depictions of 3D cities. Tags: Autodesk, Autodesk InfraWorks, cloud, crowdsourcing, geospatial, GIS, IMAGINiT, location, mapping, mobile, social media Categories: 3D Cities, 3D designs, analytics, asset management, AutoCAD, Autodesk, Big Data, cloud, cloud network analytics, data, geospatial, GIS, hardware, image-delivery software, location based sensor fusion, location based services, location intelligence, mapping, mobile |
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