Denis Browne

Intro to Matrix…

SAP has been around for 35 years. Taking you through what we’ve done for a customer Implenia. 3D rendering of a building so that customers can immerse themselves in an environment. Better than styrofoam models they’ve been using before.

Can look at how buildings will function when they’re brought online, safety issues, etc.

Showing a model of a house.

Have inserted sensors into the model. Can control it from the virtual environment. Turning lights on and off on the virtual model and it’s reflected in the real model house.

Blocks the light with his hand to simulate the bulb blowing. Virtual model spots this and creates a ticket to request that the bulb is request. Client can then go in and see how long it’s going to take to be replaced and change the priority.

Denis sometimes forgets his keys… with the Unity system and this environment, Sebastien (his helper) can open the door for him).

Also have asset tracking.

More and more companies are interested in managing their workforce.

Opening and closing the door on the model makes the door open on the virtual model, it’s very accurate, good for security monitoring.

Can optimize the building, find the carbon footprint, what’s turned on and off, what systems are using energy. Can do all this and remotely turn things off and on. Implenia get paid for reducing costs for their clients and use these systems to do this.

Implenia manages entire metropolitan areas in some cases. Every building they build today has sensor networks embedded.

Everything is going to be tracked and traced.

Showing a picture of the Internet. In 5 years, the sensor network will be hugely bigger. “A mere flea next to this picture”. The sensor network will run the world in the future. Should make the world a better place to live.

Might be odd that old stodgy dinosaur SAP is at Where2.0. Hoping that this presentation will make it clear what we can do in the location based business.

The Business Case for Simulation, Gaming & Virtual Worlds

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