OpenPiiM

OpenPiiM framework — Project Information Integrated Management for assets' Life-cycle Management.

PiiM

This is a technological framework that helps professionals and companies to close the existing gap between the BIM-like abstract data and the factual data captured from the real world, in order to streamline all the manipulation of project information, to reduce costs due to inefficient processes and to achieve successful projects.

— Key features

The PiiM technology is developed with flexibility and modularity in mind, since the several industries have a wide range of needs and capacities all around the globe. In order to respond to the requirements of any type of project (let's say public infrastructure, or private buildings, or industrial initiatives, manufacturing endeavors, etc), PiiM integrates features for both fundamental technologies, applicable for any and all kinds of assets construction & management projects, and edge technologies for the most ambitious projects that will reshape the future of human kind. Some of these features are commented next.

• Core modules: The PiiM technology is built around 3 core components that communicate the project information in a two-way fashion, allowing users to control, manage, track and audit the relation among all the virtual and real world data manipulated in the job site.

• Real-time connectivity: Supported by modern technologies like WiFi and IoT (internet of things), PiiM connects digital and analog sensors to computing devices through local networks or internet, setting up a environment for near real-time communication between the project's virtual data and the real world data, improving with it, the decision making processes among all the stakeholders of any type of project.

• BIM integration: Most of modern software for designing, documenting and managing asset projects, support BIM data integration and standard protocols. PiiM is built from the ground up to work seamlessly with international standards and software tools, implementing BIM data structures and data types, offering users an impressive level of general cross-platform compatibility.

• Open-code implementation: The PiiM technology aims for mass adoption and future-proof development. By adopting an open-source software approach, it allows the global community to research and improve upon the features of the framework. This will lead to a greater market adoption and an overall better technological evolution, while helping BIM expand beyond the AECO indutry on a wider adoption base as well.

• Forward compatibility: Current implementation of PiiM technology is built to allows professionals and companies to make use of modern cameras, drones, lasers and sensors to capture real world data from the job site, link it to its virtual correlated model (digital twin) and communicate it to the decision making agents; while preparing the foundations for future technologies to work seamlessly with PiiM.

— Products compatibility

Modern AECO industry is so complex and specialized, that no single product could respond to the growing needs of professionals and projects. That's how PiiM promotes the creation of several products, both hardware & software, working integrally to effectively interface and communicate the real world data and the virtual data in favor of everyone involved in the project's development and life-cicle. The three types of products that PiiM foresees being developed anytime in the future, are as follows.

• Job site trackers: Passive and active devices that utilize digital and/or analog technologies to detect and measure the real world equivalent to that on the virtual data available from the project's information models.

• Monitoring software: Suites of cross-platform applications for mobile and/or desktop computing devices that help professionals and companies to monitor and control the real world's live-feed/asynchronous captured data in order to compare and match it to the virtual models for the project.

• Online platforms: Web services that allows users to communicate and manage virtual data in real time with the project's stakeholders (designers, contractors and managers, etc).

These general categories offer a huge range of opportunities for companies and individuals, to create new products, devices & apps and to develop innovative businesses around a common integrated framework for PiiM adoption among projects on any kind of industry.

FIND OUT MORE

To find out more about this initiative, please feel free to send your comments and contact us.