The terms “Intelligent Community” or “Smart Park” refer to a type of building that incorporates technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and artificial intelligence (AI) into traditional infrastructure to achieve comprehensive monitoring, management, and service of the community/buildings. By connecting equipment, facilities, and systems within the community, it enables the transmission, sharing, and response of data, thus improving management efficiency and operational benefits. Additionally, it can provide residents and users with more intelligent and comfortable services and environments.

Introduction

Hightopo Software has developed multiple intelligent community digital twin systems using its self-developed graphics engine, “HT for Web.” These systems can realistically recreate the 3D scenes of buildings and provide detailed displays of security equipment, fire protection systems, lighting, air conditioning, elevators, water supply and drainage, power equipment, and their statuses. Combined with the data dashboard on both sides, people can intuitively obtain information on asset data, environmental data, security data, and other building-related information from the system.

Additionally, the system can further achieve personnel and equipment management, energy consumption monitoring and adjustment, safety monitoring and early warning, intelligent traffic management and other functions within the park through human-computer interaction, information sharing, and other means. This creates a comfortable, safe, and convenient living and working environment for people.

Energy Management

Hightopo software integrates the functions of various units within a community. It provides global management of security, energy efficiency, transportation, environment, equipment, and assets within the park through data visualization, achieving refined management of park energy. This can reduce total energy consumption, improve energy utilization, and decrease management costs. For instance:

1. Air conditioning monitoring and management: By collecting and analyzing the operational data of air conditioning systems, this system can monitor the status of air conditioning units in real-time. It can also raise an alarm for equipment anomalies and allow for remote monitoring and adjustment of the equipment. Additionally, the system can use AI to calculate the temperature that achieves the best energy efficiency ratio based on the current environmental temperature, and synchronize it in real-time to all air conditioning equipment. This achieves the goal of energy saving, emissions reduction, and cost reduction.
2. Lighting control: This feature supports remote control of the on/off function and brightness levels of various lighting facilities within the park. It allows for remote monitoring and adjustment of lighting equipment, ultimately leading to improved efficiency of the lighting facilities.
3. Power Monitoring: Monitor the power equipment in the park to grasp its operating status in real-time. Raise alerts and alarms in case of abnormal situations and take timely measures to ensure the stable operation of the power equipment.

Security System

The security system integrates video surveillance, patrol systems, access control systems, and fire safety systems to create a comprehensive security network. This allows for a visual security system and effective allocation of resources to ensure the safety of residents, personnel, and property within the community.

Video Surveillance

The system can showcase the park’s camera locations using 3D scenes, allowing for easy interaction through mouse clicks to access the corresponding monitoring videos. Moreover, it can highlight the alarm monitoring devices for quick and convenient management.

Patrol

The system can obtain and display patrol routes and points in real-time in the virtual 3D scene by connecting the locator of security personnel. This achieves digital twins between the 3D and real-world scenes, effectively improving the security management.

Access Control

The system also supports marking access control points in the 3D scene and integrates access control system to monitor real-time access information for each access point.

Fire Protection System

These systems support real-time viewing and management of firefighting equipment. Additionally, they also allow for the creation of emergency plans and firefighting simulations. This helps to improve fire safety levels and reduce personnel and property losses.

Traffic Management

Hightopo Intelligent Community supports comprehensive management of personnel access, vehicle access, parking spaces, elevators, and other aspects within the park.

Elevators

In the Intelligent Community system, we use proportional restoration to incorporate elevator models into a 3D scene. We then combine them with real-time elevator operational data to achieve real-time display of elevator running status. Furthermore, the system can highlight elevators with abnormal alarms and notify maintenance personnel, greatly enhancing the response efficiency for elevator malfunctions and ensuring personnel safety.

Parking Lot

Hightopo created a 3D model of the parking lot and accurately replicated the main facilities to scale. By tapping into parking space data, the system can monitor and restore real-time parking space usage. Additionally, it dynamically updates and displays analytical data on vehicle flow, types, and time periods based on multi-dimensional data such as space and time. When combined with the database, it can also provide real-time summaries of daily parking space usage in the park, thereby effectively improving traffic efficiency and parking space utilization efficiency.

Barrier Gate

The Hightopo “Intelligent Community” allows people to view the status of access control devices, access data, and access alarm data in a 3D scene. Additionally, through connection to the backend device control interface, it provides the ability to remotely open and close doors, manage permissions, and perform other necessary functions.

Power and Water Supply

Energy management involves monitoring and managing the usage of energy in buildings, including electricity, lighting, air conditioning, and water supply and drainage. It involves analyzing the relationship between equipment data and energy consumption. By regularly evaluating and improving the energy performance of equipment, different building equipment systems can operate efficiently under varying conditions, ultimately achieving the goal of optimizing energy conservation.

Power Distribution

Hightopo enables users to visualize the route of the distribution line by combining it with building models. Additionally, IoT equipment can be used to monitor power data, which allows for prompt alarms when power failures occur, ensuring the safe operation of the power system.

Illuminating System

By simulating various lighting devices in a 3D environment and connecting them to the lighting control system, “Intelligent Community” can establish a link between reality and the 3D scene, allowing operators to monitor and control the status of all lighting devices within an office remotely. This results in reduced daily lighting energy consumption and cost savings.

Air Conditioning

The “Intelligent Community” showcases the pipelines and equipment of the air conditioning system to provide information about the wiring, temperature, humidity, air quality, and other related data. The system also allows for remote control of air conditioning equipment from the 3D scene, enabling real-time maintenance and troubleshooting. This helps to improve air quality within the community and increase the efficiency of the operations and management personnel.

Water Supply and Drainage

This section primarily focuses on the monitoring and management of a building’s water supply, drainage, and sewage treatment systems. Hightopo integrates various data such as water quality, quantity, leakage, pressure, and sewage treatment monitoring into a 3D scene for visual display. This helps operators to understand the real-time status of water supply and drainage, and monitor equipment operation status, abnormal information, and other information. As a result, it helps achieve the goals of safe drinking water, resource conservation, building safety, etc..

Property Management

The property management module is also an important module. It typically includes aspects such as human resource management system, work order system, and more. This helps the property managers to manage properties more efficiently, thereby improving property service quality and customer satisfaction.

Work Order

The work order system offers statistics and displays the completion status, unfinished status, and trends of work orders within the community. It also helps allocate and track work orders to improve work order processing efficiency and building maintenance quality.

Human Resource

The Human Resource Management System offers an easy-to-use and visually appealing dashboard to track and display employee-related data, such as recruitment, training, attendance, and salary. By utilizing this system, people can effectively manage their employees, and enhance employee performance, work quality, satisfaction, and skill levels. Moreover, with the ability to collect, analyze, and report employee information, performance, and salary data, managers can make informed decisions and improve overall management.

Others

Oblique Photography

Using oblique photography (OP) is a quick way to create 3D models of buildings. This provides detailed information about the terrain, building surfaces, roofs, and surrounding environment. By refining the building models, we can display multiple angles and scales, allowing users to observe and analyze in an all-round manner.

At the Hightopo Smart Park Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) system, we use oblique photography technology to create a 3D model of the entire park. By combining this technology with geographic information systems (GIS), we’re able to accurately capture information about the park’s buildings, roads, facilities, and surrounding environment.

Video Fusion

HT utilizes graphic image processing technology to overlay video images onto 3D scene graphics. The video is adjusted based on the camera’s position, angle, and field of view within the 3D scene, allowing the video image to seamlessly blend into the 3D environment. Video fusion offers a more intuitive and comprehensive visual representation, aiding users in comprehending and analyzing real-time surveillance videos on location. This is highly advantageous in areas such as security monitoring, emergency response, and decision-making support.

Traffic Flow Simulation

The traffic flow simulation utilizes real traffic data and behavior models to generate a lifelike, visually engaging road environment. By merging a three-dimensional park scene with vehicle models, the simulation replicates the movement and interplay of vehicles on the road. The traffic flow simulation enables users to examine and analyze road traffic flow, traffic conditions, and congestion under various scenarios, which has immense value for traffic planning, optimization, and the development of intelligent transportation systems.

BIM

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a three-dimensional model data in the management information system of the construction industry. Engineering professionals can use BIM to obtain relevant information data, and more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure. Smart parks overlay BIM building data onto map scenes, realizing the combination display of BIM+GIS. By separating the construction of assets on different floors and within floors in the BIM model, the building construction process is dynamically restored and demonstrated.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a data model used in the construction industry. With BIM, engineering professionals can efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure by accessing relevant information. Hightopo “Intelligent Community” utilize BIM building data overlaid onto map scenes. The BIM model separates asset construction on various floors and within floors, dynamically restoring and demonstrating the building construction process.

Summary

This article presents the Intelligent Community Collection and Hightopo Digital Twin Control System. It comprises modules for managing energy, security, efficiency, and property, along with additional features, such as oblique photography, video fusion, traffic simulation, and BIM building construction. The system can be viewed through a three-dimensional scene, which helps operations personnel grasp the real-time status of various aspects and monitor equipment operation status and abnormal information. This leads to improved management efficiency of the community, reduced energy consumption, and cost savings.

Hightopo Software insists on independent innovation and development. In addition to providing VR/AR visualization technology, it also provides web visualization application solutions for BIM, GIS, XR, MR, 2D configuration, and 3D configuration. Our self-developed graphic engine “HT for Web” not only supports the ability to provide graphical configuration SCADA, but also supports building low-code and zero-code IoT platforms at the PaaS and SaaS levels. Hightopo products have been widely used in various fields such as smart cities, parks, buildings, factories, intelligent manufacturing, water, energy, photovoltaics, wind power, electricity, new infrastructure, operation and maintenance, government affairs, transportation, medical, finance, and scientific research.

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