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Smart Shipyard

Smart Shipyard Digital Twin

The scene substrate for a whole-yard smart shipyard build. 3D scanning creates a captured scene of the entire yard, covering slipways, block storage yards, fabrication and paint shops, cranes, quays and yard waters, managed in layers: captured background, equipment and vehicles, AI events and as-built geometry each form their own layer and update independently. Safety, operations monitoring and build accuracy verification all sit on this scene - camera fields of view, violation and fall events, block positions and deviation results share one coordinate reference, and managers see the whole yard from a browser. The scene is rescanned as the yard is rebuilt, and the other layers do not have to be remade.

Smart Shipyard Digital Twin

Customer challenges

1

The yard is large, with slipways, storage, workshops, quays and waters spread out and no unified spatial view

2

Each system has its own base map, so events and positions cannot be compared in one picture

3

Camera placement is decided by experience, and the blind spots blocks create are found only after an incident or a missed detection

4

After rebuilding, new workshops or new quays, existing drawings and models fall behind

5

Rare violation and incident footage is scarce, making AI models hard to validate before deployment

6

Whole-yard digitalisation runs in phases and lacks a common substrate able to carry all of them

7

Existing 3D data is mostly design models, which differ from the yard as built

Customer benefits

One spatial view of the whole yard, replacing each system's own base map

Safety, progress and accuracy data compared in the same scene

Camera coverage can be validated before purchase, avoiding wrong buys and blind spots

A yard rebuild only needs the background rescanned, with other layers reused

The captured scene reflects the yard as built, not the ideal state of a design model

Every phase of digitalisation shares one substrate, so later additions need no rebuild

Browser based, so management and the safety office need no specialist software

Key features

Whole-Yard Scene

3D scanning builds a captured scene of slipways, block storage yards, fabrication and paint shops, cranes, quays and yard waters, with interior spaces included as required, and scene origin, coordinate reference and scale defined once and shared by every system.

Layered Asset Management

Manages captured background, equipment and vehicles, AI events and as-built geometry as separate layers that update independently, so a yard rebuild only needs the background rescanned, with version management and previous scenes retained.

Event & Asset Mapping

Maps camera positions and fields of view into the scene and locates safety violations, falls into water, block positions and deviation results together, with zoned rules and owners for stations, storage areas, hot work areas and quay exclusion lines.

Web 3D Viewer

Runs in the browser with rotate, pan, zoom and reset to default view, locates and follows a chosen block, crane or event, and provides layer toggles and event list switching.

Before & after

Before No unified spatial view of the yard, each system with its own base map After — with Linker AI Nexa A captured whole-yard scene with one coordinate reference shared by every system
Before Events and positions judged across different screens After — with Linker AI Nexa Safety, progress and accuracy data shown side by side in one scene
Before Camera placement by experience, blind spots found afterwards After — with Linker AI Nexa Coverage validated in the scene before installation
Before Drawings and models fall behind after a rebuild After — with Linker AI Nexa A rebuild means rescanning the background only, other layers reused
Before Rare incident footage is scarce and models are hard to validate After — with Linker AI Nexa Synthetic footage fills the gap in rare incident training data
Before Existing 3D data is a design model that differs from the yard as built After — with Linker AI Nexa The scene reflects the yard as built and updates with construction