EVENT — HERON technology for Museum documentation and Tourism activities

23^th July 2019, Italy — Presentazione del lavoro di rilevamento dell'area espositiva Museo Ridola.

Si rinnovano i successi e la scelta della tecnologia HERON per lo sviluppo di attività Turistiche e Museali. Questa volta l'interesse arriva da parte del Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali (MIBAC) e dal polo Museale della Basilicata per progetti dedicati allo sviluppo del territorio. 

Il 23 Luglio 2019 nella storica Sala conferenze del Museo Archologico Nazionale "D.Ridola" Gexcel presenterà il progetto di rilevamento 3D eseguito nel Luglio 2018, dell'intera area espositiva del museo Ridola mediante l'uso di HERON iMMS (Indoor mobile mapping system).

La conferenza è aperta al pubblico ed aprirà le porte alla X International Summer School, organizzata dal Comitato Internazionale Fotogrammetria Architettonica - COIFA e dal Prof. Pietro Grimaldi.

Per maggiori informazioni riguardo all'utilizzo di HERON o per partecipare alla conferenza: marketing@gexcel.it

EVOCATION European project: Fellows recruitment

Formare la prossima generazione di innovatori, creativi ed imprenditori del 3D, per affrontare le sfide attuali future nei campi dell'acquisizione di geometrie scalabili e ad alta fedeltà, estrazione di strutture semantiche, elaborazione, visualizzazione e fabbricazione 3D per applicazioni professionali e di consumo. 

Questi sono gli obbiettivi del progetto europeo "EVOCATION-Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication" che vede Gexcel partner insieme a enti di ricerca e Università che rappresentano l’eccellenza europea nella gestione di dati tridimensionali. Finanziato dalla Commissione Europea (call Horizon 2020 sulle reti di formazione europee Marie Skłodowska-Curie), vede la partecipazione oltre che di Gexcel dell'Università di Rostock, che coordinerà il progetto dal CNR-ISTI di Pisa, dal Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung IGD di Darmstadt, dall’Università di Zurigo, dall’Università Tecnica di Vienna, dal Dipartimento CRS4 di Sardegna Ricerche e dall’azienda ungherese Holografika. 

Il progetto, iniziato il 1 ottobre 2018 per la durata di 48 mesi, creerà un collegio di dottorato di primo piano a livello europeo. I dottorandi saranno associati ai partner del progetto e da una lunga lista di istituti che si sono resi disponibili ad ospitare per definiti periodi di tempo i dottorandi stessi. Tra questi enti e aziende sono presenti il Museo Archeologico di Cagliari, le Università di Cagliari e Pisa e l'impresa NVIDIA. 

Il ruolo di Gexcel nel progetto è di affiancare e formare il candidato nel programma di dottorato di ricerca di 36 mesi coordinato tra otto partner accademici e industriali, nello specifico il candidato sarà coinvolto nello studio e nello sviluppo di una pipeline di acquisizione e ricostruzione (strumenti di mappatura mobile e software di elaborazione), focalizzata sulla ricostruzione di geometrie interne 3D e per estrarre informazioni funzionali dalla realtà acquisita. Il progetto EVOCATION si inserisce nelle attività di un gruppo che è stato finora partner maggiore in 14 progetti UE e 4 USA nel periodo 1996-2018. 

Il reclutamento per i ESR borsisti è iniziato. 

Visita la pagina EVOCATION Recruitment per maggiori informazioni sulle pozizioni aperte. 


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Gexcel is the technical partner and contributor of the European project "EVOCATION-Advanced Visual and Geometric Computing for 3D Capture, Display, and Fabrication" financed by the European Union’s (EU) Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie. The Rostock University (Germany) coordinates the project supported by public and private bodies including CNR-ISTI, Fraunhofer, Zurich University, Vienna Technical University, CRS4 and Holografika. Third parties collaborations face the Archeological Museum of Cagliari, Cagliari University, Pisa University and NVIDIA enterprise.


The EVOCATION network of public and private entities is naturally multidisciplinary and multi-institutional will train the next generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative experts who will be equipped with the necessary skills and competencies to face current and future major challenges in scalable and high-fidelity shape and appearance acquisition, extraction of structure and semantic information, processing, visualization, 3D display and 3D fabrication in professional and consumer applications.The project has started on October 1, 2018, will continue for 48 months, to create a European foreground fellows collegium.


The Gexcel role is to support and train the candidate in the 36 months research doctorate program. The candidate will be involved in studying and developing an acquisition and reconstruction pipeline (mobile mapping instruments and processing software), focused on reconstruct 3D indoor geometries and to extract functional information from captured reality. The ESR initially will carry out the research of reconstruction on different inputs separately (3D data and image), then will explore data fusion techniques to improve structure recovery.


Recruitment for 14 ESR fellowships has started.

Visit the EVOCATION Recruitment Page for more information about available jobs.
Learn more about the EVOCATION project

ELISIR project: eco-seismic building regeneration 4.0

Gexcel will provide its own technologies in 3D mapping, fast 3D digitalization, and BIM model update within the ELISIR project. These technologies are essential to drastically reduce costs and times of surveying activities and to assess in real-time the as-built conditions of a building.

ELISIR stands for Energy, Life Styled & Seismic Innovation for Regenerated Buildings and it aims at exploiting the potential of digitization in order to create a very personalized product-service to be offered on the market of the existing building heritage focused on seismic improvement and energy efficiency in a "smart living" way, developing a real "Built in Italy". The research project has been launched last November with a research call funded by the Lombardy Region and will end in May 2019.

Gexcel participates in the project, along with other important partners, using the HERON technology for the rapid survey of buildings, for the as-built data acquisition in the form of a point cloud, and will further develop the product adding the possibility of collecting camera data. Schneider will contribute by developing appropriate sensors for energy analysis, a platform for collecting, storing and processing data and validating them. Valsir will undertake the development of hydraulic connections leveraged by sensors, to monitor all the water consumption of the various users. H&D will craft appropriate financial products to provide "the business model and a brand capable of spreading and introducing innovation in the supply chain" with possible "consequences on foreign markets that will be investigated together with the partners involved". Delta Phoenix will fine-tune the energy seismic plaster. The development of smart windows will be taken care by Italserramenti, which will experiment products with a high degree of automation and intelligence, able to adapt to users' needs and independently manage environmental comfort.

The concept of the project was born at the DICATAM headquarters in the University of Brescia, on the initiative of Angelo Ciribini, one of the leading experts in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and digitization in construction. The second university involved is the Milan Polytechnic, with the Abc department - Architecture, Engineering and the built environment, and in particular with the operating units "Building envelope engineering group" and "Sustainable building process management group". Find more...

SUCCESS CASE — CONSERVATION, RECOVERY AND RESTORATION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

The ancient complex "Convent and Prison of S. Domenico buildings" San Gimignano, Siena (Italy)

PDF versione italiana


PROJECT DESCRIPTION

KEYWORDS: Classification Mapping | JRC 3D Reconstructor | 3D Laser Scanner | Heritage | Architectural

Assignment carried out in 2016 and 2017 for the underground part, commissioned by the Public Authority of San Gimignano (Siena) to the "RTP Borromini" group, a multidisciplinary professional team composed of specialists in architecture, engineering, restoration, and archaeology. The STUDIO ASSOCIATO PERIGEO was involved in the topographic and laser scanners survey. The complicated geometries detected with the 3D laser scanner, together with the accurate topographic survey, were then used for all the subsequent phases of detail analysis and output of a unique georeferenced system. Thanks to the data processing software JRC 3D Reconstructor, it was possible to collect and share 3D outputs from laser scanner scans and an in-depth evaluation of underground constructions of historical and anthropological interest.

Fig.1_Surveying activity

Fig.2_3D coloured point cloud model: a global view of the complex with caves

« Thanks to the Gexcel software, I could complete an important laser scanner survey with high accuracy and quality, very demanding for its features and dimension »

Roberto Pierini
STUDIO ASSOCIATO PERIGEO | Senior Surveyor

NEEDS AND GOALS

• An integrated geometric dataset for multidisciplinary technical activity aimed at reconstructing the cognitive framework.
• Essential geometric data for subsequent conservation, recovery, and enhancement of the historical compendium. 
• Accurate 3D laser scanner survey of façades, cloister, chapel and underground cavities.
• Topographic support.

RESULTS

• Detailed technical table
• Plans, sections, elevations, high-resolution orthophotos and photo plans
• 3D point cloud model
• 3D model flythrough movies
• Mines and tunnels 3D metric survey

Fig.3_Hypogeal tunnels with altimetric colouring

Fig.4_Vertical section and orthographic view of the cave interior

Fig.5_3D coloured model | Global view and internal detail

JRC 3D RECONSTRUCTOR MAIN BENEFITS

• Easy management of a big dataset
• Millimetre precision of the results
• Compatibility of different laser scanners
• Fast third-party software connection

TECHNICAL DETAILS

• SURVEYING SYSTEM: Laser scanner Faro Focus3D X130 - Total station Leica TS06
• SURVEYING AREA: Area: 8.700 m² approximately - Prospects: 15.000 m² approximately
• SURVEYING TIME: Topographic and laser scanner: 6 days (2 operators)
• PROCESSING SOFTWARE: JRC 3D Reconstructor - PointR3
• PROCESSING TIME: Laser models: 30 days (1 operator)

Fig.6_Final delivery | Orthophoto inserted into the 3D point cloud

Fig.7_Final delivery | 3D coloured models

ABOUT

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STUDIO ASSOCIATO PERIGEO | www.studioperigeo.it

The STUDIO ASSOCIATO PERIGEO, by Roberto Pierini and Valentina Tinti, features more than 30 years of experience in topographic, architectural, building and inventory surveys; for public associations and administrations as for individuals, businesses, or professionals in the fields of renovation and design, where it is important to create functional synergies to provide adequate metric datasets necessary for consistent and sound tasks performance.

4D Inspector® won the FARO Asia Pacific Product Innovation Award 2014

22^nd of January, 2015, Singapore
During the FARO Asia Pacific Distributors' Meeting the innovative application 4D Inspector^® & Scan Armor^® has won the FARO Product Innovation Award 2014.
This award is recognized to the company that made the best innovative solution for the 3D documentation instruments of FARO.

Gexcel has won the award thanks to the 4D Inspector^® solution, that combined with the Scan Armor^® for Faro is able to transform the Focus^3D in an accurate and affordable 3D+Time (4D) monitoring system.

Mr. Giorgio Vassena (president of Gexcel) and Mrs. Giorgia Rossi (International Sales Manager of Gexcel) have received the award directly during the gala dinner that has been organized at the 70^th floor of the Swissotel The Stamford in Singapore.

INTERVIEW — Integrating Surveying and Geomatics Data Using 3D Data Capture and Analysis Tools [published on 3D Visualization World]

7^th May, 2014, Berlin, Germany_The 3D Visualization World magazin published the interview of Gexcel's CEO. If you want, learn more about that by reading the interview!

http://www.3dvisworld.com/features/interviews/8099-interview-integrating-surveying-and-geomatics-data-using-3d-data-capture-and-analysis-tools.html

Gexcel's Collaboration with Microgeo S.A. Chile for new software solutions in monitoring and data processing

Have a look to the news published from our partner Microgeo S.A. from Chile

English_Microgeo S.A. consolidated in the development of solutions for the monitoring and processing of laser scanner data. The activity took place during days 6 and June 7, 2013. This time we had the pleasure of participating in training with our important strategic partner: Gexcel company with its important data processing solutions for laser scanning as JRC 3D Reconstructor, gexcel R³ and the last solution OPMMS  (Open Pit Mining Monitoring Solution) developed with the support of Geodesy Area of Microgeo S.A. Gexcel company born and maintains a strong partnership with the European Research Centre (JRC) based in the town of Ispra, Italy. We are proud to have the knowledge, research and development offered by this important strategic partner.

Italiano_Microgeo S.A. consolidata nello sviluppo di soluzioni per il monitoraggio ed elaborazione dei dati laser scanner. L'attività si è svolta nei giorni 6 e 7 giugno 2013. Questa volta abbiamo avuto il piacere di partecipare alla formazione con il nostro importante partner strategico, la società Gexcel con le sue soluzioni di elaborazione dati le scansione laser come JRC 3D Reconstructor, gexcel R³ ed ultima nata la soluzione OPMMS (Open Pit Mining Monitoring System) sviluppata per il monitoraggio delle cave con il supporto dell'area di Geodesia di Microgeo S.A. L'azienda Gexcel nasce e mantiene una forte partnership con il Centro dio Ricerca Europeo (JRC) con sede nel comune di Ispra, Italia. Siamo orgogliosi di avere la conoscenza, la ricerca e lo sviluppo offerti da questo importante partner strategico.

3D Forensic: mobile high-resolution 3D-Scanner and 3D data analysis for forensic evidence

Gexcel is one of the partners of the 3D Forensic research program, founded by the European Commission (Seventh Framework Programme) with the aim to study and develop advanced solutions for the 3D documentation on forensic applications.
The reserach program is under the co-ordination of  Dr. Peter Kuhmstedt from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena (www.iof.fraunhofer.de). 
The other partners are the Forensische Opsporing Politie Zeeland (The Netherlands), DelfTech BV (The Netherlands), Lucas Instruments Gmbh (Germany), Enclustra GmbH (Switzerland) and Crabbe Consulting Ltd (UK). 

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Gexcel è uno dei partners del programma di ricerca 3D Forensic, istituito dalla Commissione Europea (Seventh Framework Programme) con la finalità di studiare e sviluppare soluzioni avanzate per la documentazione 3D nelle applicazioni in ambito forense.
Coordinatore del programma il Dr. Peter Kuhmstedt del Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF di Jena (www.iof.fraunhofer.de). 
Gli altri partners: Forensische Opsporing Politie Zeeland (Olanda), DelfTech BV (Olanda), Lucas Instruments Gmbh (Germania), Enclustra GmbH (Svizzera) e Crabbe Consulting Ltd (Regno Unito).