To integrate with NVIDIA Omniverse, Bentley Systems has extended its iTwin platform. The goal is to provide an artificial intelligence-based graphics pipeline for real-time visualization and simulation of digital twins of infrastructure. NVIDIA Omniversewas developed specifically to create photorealistic, physics-simulated shared virtual worlds.

A Platform for Analyzing Digital Twins

Bentley iTwin is an open platform that enables engineering organizations to create, visualize, and analyze digital twins of infrastructure assets. Digital information managers use this platform to incorporate engineering data created by various design tools into a living digital twin and align it with real-world data, IoT data, and other related data without disrupting their tools and processes.

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang discusses his company’s and Bentley Systems’ goals for improving iTwin:

“Modern infrastructure is a huge feat for engineering. NVIDIA and Bentley share the ambition to create infrastructure-based digital twins that are so accurate and realistic that they will revolutionise the entire process, from infrastructure design to operations. NVIDIA Omniverse was built to do just that – create shared, physics-based, photorealistic virtual worlds. We are excited to see Bentley developing applications for the digital infrastructure twins in NVIDIA Omniverse.”

The NVIDIA Omniverse and Bentley iTwin

Symbiosis
NVIDIA’s platform integration enables millimeter-accurate digital engineering content to be visualized. This will enable photorealistic lighting and environmental effects modeling across multiple devices, including web browsers, desktops, tablets, and virtual and augmented reality headsets. iTwin allows users to virtually explore massive industrial plants and offshore structures as if they were moving through the infrastructure in real time. This platform can prove useful in many applications such as orientation or road safety optimization.

Greg Bentley, CEO of Bentley System, explains the utility of NVIDIA Omniverse in iTwin software:

“Visualization and simulation are useful in many use cases for digital infrastructure twins. The collaboration between Bentley iTwin and NVIDIA Omniverse provides immersive, real-time 3D/4D experiences that enable true-to-life, physics-based simulations of even the largest and most complex infrastructure assets. GPU computing is transforming the world of engineering and construction, and promises to unleash the potential of artificial intelligence for advanced simulation and analysis in digital infrastructure twins.”

Translated from Cas d’usage : Comment iTwin de Bentley Systems intègre NVIDIA Omniverse