Work information modelling

• US 10,423,905 B2
• Filed: 02/03/2016
• Issued: 09/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Hexagon AB)
• Original Assignee: Hexagon Technology Center GmbH (Hexagon AB)
• Inventors: Pettersson, Bo
• Primary Examiner(s): Kassim, Hafiz A
• Application Number:
  US15/014,380
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224927A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,329 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 15/00 Surveying instruments or accessories not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063112 Skill-based matching of a person or a group to a task
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063118 Staff planning in a project environment
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/08 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation

Abstract

Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method for an automated construction data interchange in a work information modelling system with a server means and a mobile client device built for establishing a communication link to the server means. The server means stores a general construction database with structured datasets of object entities of physical construction components with a hierarchical structure.

Claims

1. A method for an automated construction data interchange in a work information modelling system, with

at least one server means, storing a general construction database, the database comprising:

structured datasets of a plurality of object entities of physical construction components, wherein the datasets comprise CAD information and attribute information of the object entities, with

a hierarchical structure of the object entities representing a desired construction result to be established by the physical construction components and

a mobile client device for a mobile executing entity with a variable place of action, built for establishing a communication link to the server means;

the method comprising;

surveying on-site spatial location information of the executing entity at its place of action by location tracking of the executing entity with a location tracking system at the mobile client device,

computing an automatic filtering and preparing of a specific on-site task information with respect to a required handling sequence of one or more of the physical construction components by the executing entity to establish the desired construction result with a filtering unit, wherein the automatic filtering is based on;

a reading of an identifier associated with the executing entity and role associated to the executing entity,

the surveying of the on-site spatial location information of the executing entity,

accessing the structured datasets and the hierarchical structure, and

reading an actual time information that is synchronized with the server means; and

providing the specific on-site task information for handling the physical construction components to the executing entity via the mobile client device, with a dynamic updating of the construction database and the specific on-site task information, and

handling the physical construction components by the executing entity according to the specific on-site task information,

wherein the communication link between mobile client device and the server means is at least occasionally offline, and wherein the filtering is done with;

a pre-work online communication during which one or more of the specific task information are downloaded and locally stored at the mobile client device for offline access,

an at least occasionally offline working of the executing entity on his specific task information, wherein resulting information of the specific task information is locally buffered by the mobile client device, and

an uploading of the buffered resulting information upon establishing a post-work online communication to the server means; and

wherein a tool of the executive entity is automatically controlled and configured in real time based on the specific on-site task information at the tools on-site spatial location.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automatic filtering is done according to the spatial location information of the executing entity and according to spatial location information of the physical construction components by an automatic bidirectional real-time online communication between the mobile client device and the server means via the communication link.

3. The method according to claim 1,

wherein the downloaded and locally stored specific task information is downloaded in a higher detail level for a defined spatial area around the spatial location of the place of action and in a thereto compared lower detail level in adjacence of the defined spatial area.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automatic filtering of the specific on-site task information comprises an automatic generating of a list of physical construction components, auxiliary materials and tools needed for the specific on-site task information by the executing entity at its spatial location.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the automatic filtering of the specific on-site task information comprises an automatic generating of a list of physical construction components, auxiliary materials and tools needed for the specific on-site task information by the executing entity at its spatial location,

with an automatic filtering of the list for availability of its list-items at or in vicinity of the spatial location of the place of action and providing the list or a subset thereof to one or more executing entities, preferably according to the specific roles of the executing entities.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific on-site task information is presented to the executive entity in form of augmented reality.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific on-site task information is presented to the executive entity in form of augmented reality, with virtual views and/or video clips of the specific on-site task information and/or the desired construction result.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the specific on-site task information is presented to the executive entity in form of augmented reality,

graphically overlaid by a dimension measurement information, a handling sequence, an interactive manual and/or a link to online help-hotline, service-hotline, spare-part-hotline, which is corresponding to the specific on-site task information.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile client device comprises a camera means for taking an image of the executing entity and/or an on-site environment of the executing entity and built for providing the resulting image to the server means.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein the image is automatically assigned to corresponding object entities of the database according to the on-site spatial location information and/or according an image-recognition and/or fitting with respect to CAD-data of the object entity from the database.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein a human executing entity is equipped with a camera means that is comprised in glasses, a helmet, ear protection or safety glasses, and built to provide image information to the mobile client device, wherein the camera means comprises a two and/or a three dimensional camera means, preferably a stereo imaging means, a RIM-camera, a structured light imaging means, a SLAM imaging means and/or a laser-scanning imaging means.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile client device comprises a location tracking system for surveying on-site spatial location information, comprising a GPS, a SLAM-Navigation, an IMU and/or a radio or visual navigation system.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the physical construction component and/or the executing entity comprises a tag,

with an RFID or optical code, and

the mobile client device is reading the identifier associated with the executing entity and/or the physical construction component from the tag.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the tag is a location trackable tag and the mobile client device is spatially locating the tag on-site.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the mobile client device is tethering with other on-site devices and tools, by one or more local near field mesh networks established by the mobile client device which is functioning as gateway to the server means, wherein the mobile client device is specifically filtering and locally providing on-site task information to on-site devices and tools that lack a direct communication link to the server means.

16. A work information modelling system for automated construction data interchange, comprising:

one or more server means, storing a general construction database with structured datasets of a plurality of object entities representing physical construction components and a hierarchical structure of the object entities representing a desired construction result to be established by the physical construction components,

one or more mobile client devices for a mobile executing entity with a variable place of action,

each of the server means and the mobile client devices comprising a communication interface to establishes a bidirectional communication link of the mobile client device and the server means,

wherein the mobile client device comprises a surveying unit for location tracking of on-site spatial location information of the executing entity at its place of action, and

the mobile client device comprises an automatic filtering unit, configured to automatically filter and prepare a specific on-site task information with respect to a required handling sequence of one or more of the physical construction components for the executing entity directed to establish the desired construction result, wherein the automatic filtering is based on;

a reading of an identifier associated with the executing entity and a therewith linked role associated to the executing entity,

a surveying of the on-site spatial location information of the executing entity and/or of the physical construction components,

accessing the structured datasets and the hierarchical structures of the database, and

reading an actual time information that is synchronized with the server means;

and wherein the mobile client device is configured;

to provide the specific on-site task information for controlling the physical construction components to the executing entity via the mobile client device, and

to establish a dynamic updating of the construction database and the specific on-site task, and

to control the handling of the physical construction components by the executing entity according to the specific on-site task information,

wherein the communication link between mobile client device and the server means is at least occasionally offline, and wherein the filtering is done with;

a pre-work online communication during which one or more of the specific task information are downloaded and locally stored at the mobile client device for offline access,

an at least occasionally offline working of the executing entity on his specific task information, wherein resulting information of the specific task information is locally buffered by the mobile client device, and

an uploading of the buffered resulting information upon establishing a post-work online communication to the server means; and

wherein a tool of the executive entity is automatically controlled and configured in real time based on the specific on-site task information at the tools on-site spatial location.

17. The system according to claim 16, wherein the mobile client device is built to establish an local mesh network with on-site tools by a local communication interface of limited range, and

the filtering unit is built to filter information exchanged in-between the on-site tools and the datasets of the database according to the on-site location information.

18. A mobile client device for a system according to claim 16, wherein the mobile client device comprises a camera unit built to take images and/or videos of the on-site location, wherein the camera unit is comprised in a personal protective equipment for a human executing entity, preferably in a helmet.

19. A non-transitory computer program product with program code being stored on a non-transitory machine readable medium, the program code being configured to execute and operate an automatic filtering of specific task information from a construction database based on spatial location information and a role of an executing entity in a method comprising:

surveying on-site spatial location information of the executing entity at its place of action by location tracking of the executing entity with a location tracking system at a mobile client device,

computing an automatic filtering and preparing of a specific on-site task information with respect to a required handling sequence of one or more physical construction components by the executing entity to establish the desired construction result with a filtering unit, wherein the automatic filtering is based on;

a reading of an identifier associated with the executing entity and role associated to the executing entity,

the surveying of the on-site spatial location information of the executing entity,

accessing a structured datasets and a hierarchical structure, the structured datasets being of a plurality of object entities of the one or more physical construction components, wherein the structured datasets comprise CAD information and attribute information of the object entities, with the hierarchical structure being of the object entities representing a desired construction result to be established by the physical construction components, and

reading an actual time information that is synchronized with a server means; and

providing the specific on-site task information for handling the physical construction components to the executing entity via the mobile client device, with a dynamic updating of the construction database and the specific on-site task information, and

handling the physical construction components by the executing entity according to the specific on-site task information,

wherein the communication link between mobile client device and the server means is at least occasionally offline, and wherein the filtering is done with;

a pre-work online communication during which one or more of the specific task information are downloaded and locally stored at the mobile client device for offline access,

an at least occasionally offline working of the executing entity on his specific task information, wherein resulting information of the specific task information is locally buffered by the mobile client device, and

an uploading of the buffered resulting information upon establishing a post-work online communication to the server means; and

wherein a tool of the executive entity is automatically controlled and configured in real time based on the specific on-site task information at the tools on-site spatial location.