Our smartphones are filled with apps that track numerous things like our heart rate, running speed, and sleep patterns, but what can this new world of internet-connected devices do for our work lives in industry? Growth of a new class of products called “connected devices” or the “Internet of Things (IoT)” will usher in a new era of smarter, more cost-effective factories. These devices will make production data visible and useful, and will do much to help factory managers make more strategic decisions. This class will cover emerging trends in the Internet of Things and introduce a new, easy-to-implement application for managing factory operations. The cloud-based application uses data collected from wireless, non-intrusive sensors, and displays it in the context of a digital model in order to deliver actionable insights for energy and production management.

Today, there are more than 16 billion active wireless-connected devices, and that number will more than double and exceed 40 billion by 2020, according to ABI Research. With more and more smart things surrounding us in smart homes, offices, streets, and cities, can our 2D and 3D design also become smarter and connected? Can our design data become a smart living thing that connects to the physical world, monitors and interacts with the surrounding environment, and helps deliver performance visibility toward predictive maintenance and reduced downtime? The answer is yes! In this class we will explore new ways of building “smart connected” design and demonstrate how you can connect your design with physical microcontrollers and communicate with sensors in real time. We will also show you how to turn your design into an interaction-on-demand system that enables anyone to interact with any device at any time, all with the power of Autodesk 360 web service and Internet of Things (IoT).

Technologists from Topcon Positioning Systems, Lenovo, and HP share how big data is influencing tomorrow's technologies, and offer insights into the Internet of Things (IoT), including ambitious projects already underway.

Interest in the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow as governments, companies and individuals begin to realize the potential that a data-driven world has to offer. This talk explores how the construction industry can use the data it collects via tools like BIM and sensors to feed into the wider IoT agenda and the benefits this could bring. We will discuss how we can utilise the data we collect for a variety of purposes including benchmarking and continuous improvement, while also considering how we can combine our data with data sets from other sectors to create greater insights for the industry, client, and end user. Finally, we will look at how we can manage some of the challenges of being a data-driven industry including data management and storage, pain/gain share, ethical considerations, and the need to recruit staff with different skill sets.

The Research Team at Autodesk, Inc., has been developing technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) since before people called it that. Project Dasher is a building performance management tool that displays historical and real-time sensor data inside a building model. The Research Team has taken the learning acquired while developing Project Dasher and used it to create technology that addresses the needs of the broader IoT market. This session will look at how IoT APIs (application programming interfaces) from Autodesk Research can be used to display information in websites integrating the viewer from the Forge Platform to inform the design process and even power generative design. This session features Forge and Dynamo Studio. AIA Approved

Industry 4.0 is the current and developing environment in which disruptive technologies and trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, Blockchain, virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the way we live and work.This proof of concept case study demonstrates how Blockchain technology can be adopted in the construction management process by utilizing IOT, Blockchain platform and BIM CDE (BIM 360) for martial supply chain monitor and control. In this presentation, we will cover the understanding of Blockchain technology, the process map for the implementation, the results and outcomes of the current case study.

Commercial buildings are on the verge of the biggest transformation in history. Internet of Things (IoT) is making connected buildings a reality, and adoption is on the rise across architecture, engineering, building technology, real estate, and construction industries. The use of IoT data for building modeling offers tremendous opportunity to optimize the design, construction, retrofit, and operations of buildings. But just having access to data doesn’t unlock actionable insights. Vladi Shunturov, founder and president of Lucid, will explain how we can harness the power of Building IoT for teams across any number of disciplines, from energy management to finance, operations, tenant communications, and more. He'll explain how to turn what were once reactive processes into proactive opportunities, and share proven best practices and use cases to arm attendees with information they need to turn disparate data from connected buildings into strategic assets. This session features Building Ops. AIA Approved

We all know the people who possess seemingly superpowers that enable them to get the job done no matter what. One of our most powerful tools, the digital world, can bring out the superhero in all of us.
Want to go back to your office ready to save the day? Are you ready to be the office superhero? If so, then this session is for you.
As digital technologies such as generative design, augmented reality, the internet of things (IoT), and artificial intelligence transform the processes of design and creation; what will the impact be?
 Are these technologies changing the way we approach and answer questions about the best way to design or build something?
 What does this change mean for living, working, and designing in the modern age?
 Join Autodesk Explorer-in-Residence, Jonathan Knowles, and special guests from Amazon, Intel, Microsoft, HP, Lenovo, and Dell for a fascinating conversation about how this new era is shaping the future of how things are made.

Hear about how Fusion Connect customers are profiting from the Internet of Things (IoT) and what connected products have done for their business. Expect to hear some great success stories and valuable advice about those who’ve embraced connected products and have begun building new business opportunities from IoT. This session features Fusion Connect ( Formerly SeeControl ). 

The emerging IoT space holds enormous potential for positive social, environmental, and financial impact if it is built with the most important node at its center: people. In order for the next wave of innovation around connected devices to happen, people must be able to understand the technology, relate it to their lives, and envision and prototype solutions to real-world problems, even when these problems are relevant only for the few. This, in turn, will only happen when the Internet becomes a material that is accessible to non-engineers and non-experts who can grasp and deploy interactions with the Internet in the physical world as easily as they can with physical materials.

Parsons will highlight the capabilities available within an airport digital twin by showing our work to support the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport digital twin project. The digital twin includes a main runway and passenger terminal. We’ll detail our work to help define digital governance standards, develop a runway-specific asset ontology, and integrate data across multiple source systems: Civil 3D software, Revit software, Infor EAM, Johnson Controls, Veoci Part 139 airfield inspection software, Esri GIS, and ViewMondo weather station data running within the Microsoft Azure Digital Twins cloud. The twin provides real-time updates via Internet of Things (IOT) runway sensors that specify temperature, surface temperature, humidity, and water film. This session will share unique insights and lessons learned regarding the technical and management workflows to plan and execute a digital twin for critical infrastructure assets. A digital twin addresses the industry challenge of how to automate and unify the management of complex civil infrastructure.

With limited resources and increased pressure to deliver value to clients, general contractors struggle to utilize technology to enhance productivity while maintaining safe worksites. Leading organizations like Skanska are turning to emerging Internet of Things (IoT)-based innovations to solve these challenges. By researching, piloting, and evaluating construction technologies, Skanska is determining better ways to track people and assets in order to build smarter and safer. This presentation will focus on the opportunities, challenges, and proven practices around using IoT and real-time location systems (RTLS) to know which resources are on a jobsite and how they’re interacting with each other. By providing unprecedented real-time visibility into construction operations and safety incidents, software like Spot-r by Triax are helping organizations like Skanska mitigate operational risks and enhance efficiency on the job.

What are the possibilities when we talk about IoT (Internet of Things) and BIM (Building Information Modeling)? Well, when we integrate through Forge intelligent models and Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, we can have a world of possibilities and insight with machine learning. In this lecture, you will see how data collected with BIM 360 software to make an inventory were connected with equipment in the building to monitor what was going on and make predictive analysis, in order to cut building maintenance costs. You’ll see how BIM 360 Ops software can be used to open and close maintenance tickets.

Learn how to automate the exchange and augmentation of information with Autodesk Tandem technology using Safe Software's FME no-code data-integration platform. Together we’ll construct automations to extract Autodesk Tandem data to business intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI and Tableau. And we’ll update Autodesk Tandem information with new data, ranging from Microsoft Excel to Internet of Things (IoT) streams.

Autodesk Research has been exploring the intersection of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Internet of Things (IoT) for the last decade. Project Dasher (http://dasher360.com) integrates sensor data with model data from Autodesk's Forge platform to contextualize IoT data in 3D. This session will look at what is happening with Dasher, but also will talk in detail about the Forge capabilities that Dasher has used—which are available to all Forge developers—to build a digital twin integrating real-world performance data.

Windows Universal Platform is redefining product experience on cross-platform devices by blurring the device dependencies, and enabling the user to run the same product across all Windows 10-supported devices. This enabled us to explore new possibilities for AutoCAD software drawing experiences on futuristic devices like HoloLens, Surface Hub, Continuum, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this session, we will showcase our explorations: How AutoCAD software can change the future of making things by breaking boundaries of conventional desktop software. How small devices (Phone with Continuum) are carrying AutoCAD 360 web app and getting transformed to desktop experience just by connecting any size of the display. We’ll cover virtual-reality CAD exploration, where 3D reality mixes with 2D virtual shapes for a fast, powerful, and accurate visualization. No prerequisite required, as we are exploring new ways to use and work with AutoCAD software drawings. This session features AutoCAD 360 and AutoCAD. AIA Approved

The Internet of Things (IoT) has made it possible to gather real-time data about your critical business assets. This enables you to collect data about asset condition, performance, and usage and turn it into real actionable insights. Coupling IoT with BIM 360 Ops software and reorganizing teams to align with the customer journey, a data-center owner was able to automate the management of data and switch servers. Everyone in the organization has an idea for improving work but not everyone is empowered to deliver it. Learn how delegated development empowers anyone in the organization to innovate without adding risk of impacting other areas of the organization. In this session, you’ll learn how various systems fit in the ecosystem, and how to decide on which technologies will help accelerate digital transformation. Workflows should be designed to be flexible, robust, and efficient. You will be exposed to industry best practices for workflow-automation design.

Learn how NVIDIA Omniverse can help unlock collaboration and simulation at enterprise scale. We’ll use the full capabilities of graphics processing unit (GPU) computing to explore various AEC workflows from conceptual design, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), energy simulations, and Internet of Things (IoT) using a platform built for AI-enhanced full-scale data and real-time feedback. We’ll explore workflows that enhance your interactions with the tools you use, not replace them. Learn about using data connections between Revit software, 3ds Max software, Maya software, and many others.