Den 15 oktober, under konferensen The Year in Infrastructure 2018, avslöjade Bentley Systems Incorporated att de förvärvat svenska Agency9. Agency9 har redan försett hälften av Sveriges större kommuner med digitala tvillingar för stadsplanering och webbaserad 3D-visualisering. Med förbättrade lösningar vill Bentley göra alla städer digitala med OpenCities Planner (tidigare Agency9 CityPlanner).
Sedan 2012 har Agency9 dragit nytta av 3D-modeller skapade i Bentleys ContextCapture för visualisering av infrastruktur representerad i GIS-data, terrängmodeller och BIM. Bentleys nya molntjänst iTwin™, som lanserades på konferensen, ger nya funktioner som möjliggör stadsplanering på högre detaljnivå med OpenCities Planner.
– Now that we’re part of Bentley, we’re confident about achieving the full global potential of Agency9’s innovations. My colleagues and I, and our forward-thinking users in the Nordics, have been noted for pushing the envelope of geospatial integration and visual performance to new levels of detail. Now, as contributors toward unique city-scale digital twin cloud services from Bentley, we can foresee the realization of our users’ vision to advance from urban planning to improving cities’ asset performance, skriver Håkan Engman, vd Agency9 i Bentleys pressmeddelande.
– Our many city users globally have been asking for the useful capabilities which Agency9 has successfully implemented throughout Sweden, to take further advantage of their reality modeling programs. In fact, when we combine Bentley ContextCapture’s 3D surveying advancements (based on hybrid aerial, UAV, and ground-based imagery) with our Connected Data Environment (CDE) technologies for geospatial-to-BIM integration, we make city-scale digital twins as a cloud service broadly accessible. Ultimately synchronizing reality and ‘virtuality,’ OpenCities Planner offers the perfect web solution to enable every city in going digital, säger Phil Christensen, senior vice president reality modeling, Bentley.
