DIGITAL TWIN: MURALLA DE ÁVILA AND ESCUELAS MAYORES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA
About this good practice
The realisation of the digital twin of the Avila Wall and the Escuelas Mayores of the University of Salamanca is a project for the digitisation of Natural and Cultural Heritage as anti-pandemic measures, the result of COVID-19. The research project of the TIDOP group (Information Technologies for the Intelligent Digitalisation of Objects and Processes) is led by Diego González Aguilera, professor in the Department of Cartographic and Terrain Engineering at the University of Salamanca.
The project in both cities combines 3D technology and artificial intelligence with the aim of generating a three-dimensional digitisation to predict conservation problems of historic buildings and anticipate to offer different solutions, as well as to serve different studies of researchers, combining history and technology.
Among the advantages offered by the digitisation of cultural heritage with wearable technologies, present in the Avila Wall and the Escuelas Mayores of the University of Salamanca, are:
- The process is intuitive, easy to apply and low cost.
- It is more efficient than laser or photogrammetric techniques, with metric properties of an accuracy of 1-2 cm.
- It has a high variability of sensors and LoRaWAN network parameters, as well as BigData performance and analysis.
- It is an ideal method for complex scenarios of Cultural Heritage with historical value.
Resources needed
It comes from the subsidies of more than 4 million € granted by the Spanish government last year 2021 to different municipalities for digital transformation projects in administrative processes and the adaptation of their management to digital media. Salamanca received 538,764€ and Ávila 217,138€
Evidence of success
Today the digitisation team has more than 60 employees and is still growing, with experts in the most advanced geospatial technologies to date. It also holds patents and intellectual property (software) and has more than 200 projects contracted so far, with a wide network of clients.
This model has already been replicated in other places in Spain, for example several churches in Seville or the chapel of San Pedro in Aguilar de Campoo.
Potential for learning or transfer
It facilitates possible remote access to historic buildings through sound and detailed images and a combination of images and three-dimensional models, among other elements that complete the virtual navigator.
It configures a metric documentation of the monuments and buildings with a high level of detail, around one centimetre, which could facilitate the taking of measurements on these generated models if necessary, generating derived cartographic products.
The ease of cataloguing the monument, its easy reconstruction thanks to the metric work, as well as the dissemination of historic buildings on an international level, in addition to the tourist promotion of monuments and buildings, which can be given a greater capacity for attraction.
Digital cufflinks offer a wide range of possibilities in CH and wearable digitisation techniques represent an effective solution to problems of preventive conservation of the monument.
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Saint Mary the Royal Foundation of Historic Heritage