Enhancing Digital Maturity in Newfoundland and Labrador with Reality Capture and Digitization Technology Applications

数字成熟度对商业生态系统的健康至关重要。数字成熟的公司，即在使用数字库存或电子商务等基本技术和数字建模、现实捕捉或光学处理等先进技术方面具有竞争力的公司，更具可扩展性、弹性、出口准备和盈利能力。然而，在纽芬兰和拉布拉多(NL)，“许多企业，特别是那些更传统行业的企业，并不完全意识到他们可以如何应用数字化，或者他们可以看到什么具体的好处。技术解决方案也不是一刀切的。企业必须得到支持，以评估他们的需求，确定技术可以使他们受益的领域，然后找到并实施最合适的解决方案。”(1)北大西洋学院希望扩大其创新服务能力，为其日益增长的迫切需要的合作伙伴公司提供这种数字支持。北大西洋应用研究与创新学院(OARI)积极利用其世界级的地面和机载LiDAR(激光成像检测和测距)、3D地图和高光谱成像资产和团队，以推进现实捕捉和数字化方面的专业化。为了支持数据驱动的数字测绘项目，以解决当前NL业务的“数字不成熟”问题，OARI使用了其价值3500,000美元的现实捕捉和数字化仪器的便携式库存。为了满足工业对现实捕捉和数字化解决方案日益增长的需求，现在需要更多的人力专业知识来充分调动这项技术，以接触到更多的企业，以增强其数字成熟度。在配备了所需的学院研究人员后，计划活动的结果是在民族解放阵线全面部署一个可持续的现实捕捉和数字化中心。目标是继续与矿业部门建立价值数百万美元的战略伙伴关系，但扩大到其他部门，特别是医疗保健、林业、公用事业、环境监测以及酒店和旅游业。然而，要做到这一点，需要专门的人力资源，将这项技术部署到已知但尚未确定应用的其他部门，如资产数字化和管理、现有和建成条件分析、业务信息建模和业务流程数字化。

Digital maturity is vital to business ecosystem health. Digitally mature companies, ones that possess competence in the use of both basic technologies, such as digital inventories or e-commerce, and advanced technologies, like digital modelling, reality capture or optical processing, are more scalable, resilient, export ready and profitable. However, in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), "many businesses, particularly those in more traditional sectors, are not fully aware of how they can apply digitization or what specific benefits they could see. And technological solutions are not a one-size-fits- all. . Businesses must have supports to evaluate their needs, identify areas where technology can benefit them, and then find and implement the solution that is the best fit." (1) College of the North Atlantic wishes to expand its innovation service capacity to provide precisely this digital support to its growing list of partner companies urgently in need of it. College of the North Atlantic's Office of Applied Research and Innovation (OARI) has actively engaged its world class terrestrial and airborne LiDAR (Laser Imaging Detection And Ranging), 3D mapping and hyperspectral imaging assets and teams to advance a specialization in reality capture and digitization. To support data-driven digital mapping projects to address the current "digital immaturity" of NL business operations, OARI employs its $3,500,000 portable inventory of reality capture and digitization instruments.To execute on the growing demand for reality capture and digitization solutions for industry, additional human expertise is now required to mobilize fully this technology to reach more businesses to enhance their digital maturity. When resourced with a required complement of Faculty Researchers, the outcome from planned activities is the full-scale deployment of a sustainable Centre for Reality Capture and Digitization in NL. The goal is to continue multi-million dollar strategic partnerships with the mining sector but to expand to other sectors, particularly health care, forestry, utilities, environmental monitoring, and hospitality and tourism. To do this, however, dedicated human resources are needed to deploy this technology to other sectors where it has known, and yet to be determined, applications such as asset digitization and management, analysis of existing and as-built conditions, business information modelling (BIM), and digitization of business processes.