RE: [x3d-public] LoadSensors: create via SAI? Monitor an ExternProto?

["Len Bullard" <cbullard@hiwaay.net>]

Humbling.   I begged Intergraph to look at X3D while I was on the W3DC BoD.
They finally did in public safety but only because MTA demanded it and there
was some work with NIST over in mechanical, but otherwise, the 3D folks
turned their noses up at X3D until Eric Maranne showed them what he could do
for dispatch simulation with VRML.  I don't know what they are doing now,
but if you guys ever see the Australian Intergraph folks, they are a bit
more imaginative than the Huntsville headquarters crew.  They should see
this.

Intergraph was sold to a San Francisco money company.  Maybe Tony should go
see them.  The new owners may have more imagination than the current
management of the old regime.

len


From: Con.Caris@csiro.au [mailto:Con.Caris@csiro.au] 

Thanks Len. 

We've been working steadily on this as part of a large research project
in mining equipment automation for the past 5 years. Tony Parisi has
been providing invaluable support with Flux and for our Java SAI
implementation. We actually run a standalone Java client that runs Flux
(ActiveX Control) in a Java panel.

This is a heavy duty application which monitors a machine that spans 250
meters in width (located 140 meters underground) and cuts over 3000 tons
of material in an 8 hour shift. We embed the mining equipment model
within a geological model that integrates many individual X3D PROTOs
that we instantiate dynamically as the user requires ie., no large
monolithic models to initially load (see attached image). The X3D
scenegraph and the SAI is excellent for doing this.

Soon we'll be monitoring 3D models in real-time from 3 different mine
sites in Australia. We're going to set up a small control center at our
research site that will enable us to display the models on a large
projection screen and switch between them.

You really can produce high quality visualisation for industry with X3D
and drive it dynamically from external sources. It would be great to see
if there are other examples like this. We've been doing this since the
days of Cosmoplayer and Netscape4, but I haven't seen too many
industrial applications.

The SAI and EXTERNPROTOs are our life blood if this arena.

Con.

-----Original Message-----
From: Len Bullard [mailto:cbullard@hiwaay.net] 
Sent: Friday, 8 December 2006 2:40 PM
To: Caris, Con (E&M, QCAT)
Cc: www-vrml@web3d.org; x3d-public@web3d.org
Subject: RE: [x3d-public] LoadSensors: create via SAI? Monitor an
ExternProto?

Aside from the thread, nice jpeg.  

That's got to be an impressive 3D system.  Intergraph's mechanical folks
should see that.

len


From: owner-x3d-public@web3d.org [mailto:owner-x3d-public@web3d.org] On 

We also rely heavily on the SAI for our control applications which
stream real-time sensor data, from large scale underground mining
equipment, into our 3D worlds - see attached image. Data is streamed
from over a thousand kilometers through secure VPNs (24 x 7) into these
models which we monitor remotely. It's important to know that the
EXTERNPROTOs have loaded completely before we can start piping data into
the Transforms (via the SAI) of the model. 






-------------------------------------------------------------------------
for list subscription/unsubscription,
go to http://www.web3d.org/cgi-bin/public_list_signup/lwgate/listsavail.html