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| SIMLAB is a WGAN Marketing Partner --- Text Me 5 Minutes Before WGAN-TV is Live | WGAN-TV | 10 SIMLAB Tech Partner Integrations for AEC, Facilities Management and Building Management Systems (BMS) | Guest: SIMLAB Founder and CEO Marek Koźlak, PhD Engineering | 5 PM Poland | 11 AM ET) on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 | Episode: 247 | www.SIMLABinc.com and www.SIM-STAGES.com @Jedrzej @SIMLAB  www.SIMLABinc.com | www.SIM-STAGES.com | www.Procore.com | www.Matterport.com  www.SIMLABinc.com | www.SIM-ON.com | www.ibm.com/products/maximo.com | www.Matterport.com WGAN-TV - 10 SIMLAB Tech Partner Integrations for AEC, Facilities Management and Building Management Systems Hi All, [Transcript (below)] Are you wondering how to: ✓ Control smart buildings with live sensor data visualized inside Matterport or NavVis digital twins? ✓ Use IBM Maximo and SIM-ON together for proactive asset maintenance and streamlined task tracking? ✓ Integrate building automation tools like KNX, NETxAutomation, and SmartThings into one unified platform? Stay tuned! On WGAN-TV Live at 5 (5 PM Poland | 11 AM ET) on Wednesday, 18 June 2025, our guest is: ✓ SIMLAB Founder and CEO Marek Koźlak, PhD Engineering Together, we’ll explore how SIMLAB empowers professionals in Construction, Facilities Management, Building Automation and Property Managers to use these SIMLAB tech integrations: 10 Key SIMLAB Tech Integrations 1. Matterport – industry-standard for immersive 3D twins 2. NavVis – alternative laser-based indoor scanning platform 3. IBM Maximo Applications Suite – enterprise asset management powerhouse 4. KNX IoTech – gold standard for smart building automation 5. NETxAutomation – advanced interoperability for BMS 6. FIBARO by Nice Group – plug-and-play smart devices 7. Schneider Electric – intelligent energy and automation systems 8. Smart Home – customizable home automation setups 9. SmartThings – Samsung’s connected device ecosystem 10. Homey – flexible IoT hub for residential control What You’ll Learn ✓ How to turn your 3D digital twin into a live operations center for real estate, commercial or hospitality spaces ✓ How SIMLAB STAGES helps AEC teams document and compare building progress visually and spatially ✓ How SIMLAB bridges traditional BMS and IoT into a single, real-time, interactive 3D experience ✓ How global companies use SIMLAB to streamline maintenance, reduce costs, and elevate smart property engagement Questions I’ll Ask Marek Facilities & Smart Building Use Q: How does SIMLAB SIM-ON unify control and data across platforms like KNX, FIBARO, Schneider, and SmartThings? Q: How does the Matterport + SIM-ON integration with IBM Maximo drive ROI for enterprise clients? For AEC & Construction Teams Q: How does STAGES improve site communication, milestone validation, and error reduction during construction? Q: How do STAGES users compare scans and BIM models to spot discrepancies and plan better? Tech Innovation Ahead Q: What’s next for SIMLAB’s roadmap with AI, open APIs, and digital twin navigation across multiple platforms? Why This Episode Matters ✓ See how to scale digital twin tech across industries and countries ✓ Understand what makes SIMLAB unique among digital twin providers ✓ Learn how 10 leading technologies work better—together—with SIMLAB Learn More ✓ Watch WGAN-TV Podcast episodes featuring SIMLAB ✓ Read We Get Around Network Forum posts about SIMLAB Questions I should ask Marek during this WGAN-TV Live at 5 show? Watch all WGAN-TV Podcast episodes featuring SIMLAB on the WGAN-TV Podcast playlist on YouTube: WGAN-TV News About SIMLAB (or your favorite podcast app). Best, Dan P.S. Want to "read" ahead? Here are some short SIMLAB marketing videos ... Video: Turn PROCORE Data Into Pooject Insights | Video courtesy of SIMLAB YouTube Channel | 13 May 2025 Video: How to make smart property in 3D? | Video courtesy of SIMLAB YouTube Channel | 22 May 2025 @Jedrzej @SimlabSales @SIMLAB Video: STAGES - Over time construction monitoring solution and cross-sector communication platform | Video courtesy SIMLAB YouTube Channel | 16 May 2025 Video: SIM-ON & NETxAutomation - Digital Twin next-generation BMS | Video courtesy of SIMLAB YouTube Channel | 12 June 2023 |
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| Text Me 5 Minutes Before WGAN-TV is Live | WGAN-TV | 10 SIMLAB Tech Partner Integrations for AEC, Facilities Management and Building Management Systems (BMS) | Guest: SIMLAB Founder and CEO Marek Koźlak, PhD Engineering | 5 PM Poland | 11 AM ET) on Wednesday, 18 June 2025 | Episode: 247 | www.SIMLABinc.com and www.SIM-STAGES.com @Jedrzej @SIMLAB Transcript (Video Above) - - Are you wondering how to control smart buildings with live sensor data visualized inside Matterport or NavVis Digital Twins? - - Are you wondering how to use IBM Maximo and SIMLAB SIM-ON together for proactive asset management and maintenance and streamlined task tracking? – Are you wondering how to integrate building automation tools like KNX, NETxAutomation, and SmartThings into one unified platform? Stay tuned. Hi all. I'm Dan Smigrod, founder of the [www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com] Today is Wednesday, June 18th, 2025. You're watching WGAN-TV: a podcast for digital twin creators shaping the future of real estate today. We have an awesome show for you: 10 SIMLAB Tech Partner Integrations for AEC, Facilities Management, and Building Management Systems [BMS]. Our subject matter expert is SIMLAB founder and CEO, Marek Koźlak. Marek, thank you for being back on the show. - Hi, Dan. Hi all. Thank you for having me here. It's a pleasure to be with you again. - For today's show, we will assume that our viewers are already a pro with Matterport or NavVis and have watched previous WGAN-TV Podcast shows about SIMLAB STAGES and SIMLAB SIM-ON at: www.WGAN.info/SIMLABonWGAN Is it okay if I role play with you? - I love those kinds of interviews, so yes, of course. - Awesome. So please call me Sam. I am a construction manager at a general contractor in Atlanta. We've been using Matterport for construction progress monitoring, including for a 100,000 square foot five-story building, and we're a Procore shop. I read about SIMLAB STAGES in the We Get Around Network Forum and watched some of the WGAN-TV Podcast shows about SIMLAB STAGES. I feel like our present workflow is just not working for us in terms of how we're doing things and SIMLAB STAGES seem like it was the right solution for us. What are the top three ways SIMLAB STAGES can help us get more out of Matterport with construction progress monitoring? - Okay, Sam, fantastic. You are already within the Matterport ecosystem. That's great. That means that you are aware of digitalization, you know how to do it, let me help you to be more effective. So first of all, I would like to ask you how we are using your Matterport scans. Are you doing this in periods of time? Each week? Once a month? Or are you capturing a special moment on your facility construction? - Every week, we are doing construction monitoring. So we are doing Matterport scans on a weekly basis. We have a very large meeting of all our stakeholders, all the trades. - That's already great because that means that you have a lot of data. What we are specialized in within the SIMLAB family is that we are bringing this data in a context of time. So if you are saying that you are scanning with the Matterport each week, we are able to create for you a timeline of the building and tell the story of your work, of your construction monitoring progress. Which means that we can create a timeline which actually shows you week by week, what's changed on the split-screen effect or a timeline system where we are allowing you also to go even beyond Matterport data. We are allowing you to understand the construction side within all of the documents. So using Matterport as kind of the dashboard for all of the asset management within the Procore, as you said, but also for all of the other file formats. So imagine that you have on the construction side, general constructor, you have the engineers, you have also regular workers, but you have the investor who would like to know what's happening. So eliminating traveling to the site, which is basically why we are using Matterport on your weekly meetings. We can right now create a story about how that's changing. So, step one, do the scan. Step two, feed the data, and step three, present the data. That means that we are building a visual story, how everything changes. And on the previous [www.WGAN.info/SIMLABonWGAN] that we are showing exactly how STAGES works, you can see the beautiful split-screen to compare Matterport scans side-by-side. You can see how the situation is changed within the time on the next one. This is a great visualization toolkit that actually eliminates the engineering data for all of the stakeholders around your construction site. And the most fantastic way is that ... that data can be later on transferred to all of the facility owners in the next stage of the building lifecycle. So that means that if you want to remove some unneeded weekly scans, you can do it and then pass the most crucial data towards your facility owner and the people that are actually paying the bill for this construction. - Let me ask you a follow up question because it seems like this split screen and timeline that you mentioned are really the key. The challenge that we presently have with the way we're doing construction progress monitoring with Matterport, we do the weekly scans and then we kind of figured out on a very large monitor that we're opening up two browsers and on one side, we're putting week one construction or the BIM model. And then on the other side of our screen, we're putting week two or week three, trying to understand if there is any clash detection, are there any issues with the electrical, plumbing, and mechanical stages. But we find this really awkward of trying to run two browsers within one monitor and then kind of walk through the Matterport. It seemed like it would be a great solution, but it seems really klugy that the way we're trying to understand a space. Sometimes we run into a problem and we need to go look at that problem point in various stages of construction. Could you just elaborate a little bit more on how you solve this problem for us? How SIMLAB STAGES solves this problem for us? Particularly with both the split-screen and you mentioned a timeline view, if you could just expand on that as well. - Yup. Both the features that you just mentioned are working within the same application, the same project. It's not to separate monitors to separate applications that you can need to stack to each other. It works within the same application. And it means that all of the changes which are happening in, for example stage one, in stage two of the project, they are visible and they are synchronized. The data between them is also synchronized. So if you are doing a MatterTag in our system, it's called a note or punch list or RFI, then this data, if it's not solved in that particular moment of time, it's being automatically transferred to the next scan, next model, next step on the timeline. And this is allowing you to track the open subject, close the subjects in that particular moment within the exact team that is actually assigned to that problem. But additionally, we don't only stack and compare Matterport with Matterport. We compare Matterport with additional file formats. So if you have BIM engineers , and then you have a Matterport scan, which is as-built data, this is the first time you can actually clash it to each other and basically see if the progress of construction is going in the correct direction. If there are some mistakes which are found on the as-built model, which are looking different in the design model in your Revit file. And this is where STAGES becomes powerful because it brings not only Matterport with a next Matterport scan; but Matterport with IFC data from Revit; Matterport with the blueprint; Matterport with FBX; OBJ data; Matterport with the point cloud. If you have any other scanning system, even much more precise than Matterport because you need to have a precision and measurement feature for that particular job site, then you can take a point cloud, a very detailed, massive gigabyte of data point cloud and clash it together with the Matterport to see basically how does it look and where are the- - So if I may, we're doing exactly what you described today because we do use BIM and we have point cloud models and we actually have some blueprints and yet others, Revit for example. So it sounds like that the two things that are super-helpful for SIMLAB STAGES for our projects are that within one browser, that we can look at these -- compare either different file formats, BIM point cloud, Matterport, and easily go to a point in one place within that 100,000 square foot project as an example, and then have it immediately show that same point in a different time period or in a different file format to do a deeper dive. So that synchronization sounds awesome. And then the second is the timeline feature that you mentioned. It sounds like, just for sake of simplicity, we're scanning on the first of every month that we literally could go to September 1, October 1, November 1, December 1, January 1, and look at the model at that time period and even do it side by side. Is that? - Exactly. This is the main concept of STAGES but also going once behind it. Now imagine that you can continue the timeline once the construction is complete so you can monitor what's happening with the building, not maybe week by week, but year by year, what's happening in the next year, the following year, 10 years from now, what we need to do with the renovation and how the building is aging, how the paint is aging on the walls, how the cracks are happening on the concrete. To monitor those things and make sure that we are keeping an eye on the story of the building within the Matterport timeline or split-screen effects. - Awesome. I mentioned that we're a Procore shop and I did see on the SIMLAB website, www.SIMLABinc.com that SIMLAB STAGES has Procore as a tech partner? - Yes. - Can you talk about that integration since we're already using Matterport and then if we go ahead and use SIMLAB STAGES. What happens in terms of Procore? Is this all totally seamless? - If your company is using Procore already, then you can stick within the Matterport environment only. Why? Because we are 100% integrated into the Procore ecosystem. With the API, we are sourcing all of the data of your projects from Procore. So all of the documents, all of the data records, which you have under your project in the Procore, we are able to read and transfer this data into the Matterport XYZ location. That means is that you can continue the documentation from Procore into the Matterport timeline, Matterport visualization, but also, you can create a new data, new facts, new problems, new documents, new points of interest inside of the Matterport, and then equip it with the Procore documentations and then send it back to the Procore. So it's a two directional, very deep communication between Matterport and Procore, which allows non-Procore users or non-Procore experts to work with a Procore very detailed data on your construction site. - So just for clarification, Matterport plus SIMLAB STAGES plus Procore is a completely seamless integration for us? - Yes. - And the data travels both directions? - Yes, with one account you have access to all of your Matterport documentation, all of your Procore documentation, and you can work visually instead of using a database as Procore is. - And then just for clarification, SIMLAB STAGES is an official partner with Procore? - Yes, we are partners. We are part of the Procore ecosystem and Procore Marketplace. We just released this integration. So you will see a lot about that subject shortly in the social medias and in [www.WGANForum.com] - And again, just want to double check about your relationship with Matterport, does SIMLAB is an authorized Matterport partner? - We are a Matterport technology partner. We do not sell Matterport services, not to compete with Matterport. We are giving all of the Matterport Service Providers an option to upgrade the experience with those great integrations with additional partners to add and reach the Matterport data and ecosystem with much more data. - Okay, great. So we're super interested in actually getting started with SIMLAB STAGES plus Matterport plus Procore. What would be our next step? - Well, this is where we feel that we are special within our offering because as I mentioned a little bit, now where we're on a construction site and you completed your project, the next step is how to reuse the same data within the building maintenance and operation. So from STAGES, there is one single button which says export. You can select of course what kind of the data, which kind of the STAGES would have the documentation, which RFIs which punch list you want to share within the maintenance team. But we are doing the handover from the construction process into the maintenance and operation- - And I'm sure there's an onboarding process and I'll be fine with your onboarding process, but is it the next step for me to go to www.SIM-STAGES.com and request a callback from a representative of SIMLAB? - You can go to www.SIM-STAGES.com and there is a place that you can contact us directly or just follow one of the links under this interview and we are going to be more than happy to get back to you in person. - Okay, great. And I can imagine us doing this on this 100,000 square foot project, it's five stories. This will be a good start for us. That said, I'm anticipating, we have a project coming on board for about two million square feet and I'm just concerned that trying to do the weekly construction progress monitoring with Matterport, it's just going to be too slow a process, too cumbersome for the capture. It's just too much. Is there another solution that would enable us to easily do two million square feet and still work with SIMLAB STAGES and Procore? - Yes, I would say that there's a couple of options that you have. First of all, you can start scanning with the Matterport, they have the devices in your company. But if you are very much about the speed of capturing the data, you can use just regular video footage or we are also partnering with a German technology which is complementary to the Matterport in the size of the facility with NavVis. I don't remember if that's well-known for the US partners and customers. The backpack, which is so popular in Europe. And that means that with this laser scan technology, you can capture a full airport in one day with the digital twin model. That's the- - Did I hear you correctly, in one day, we could scan 2 million square feet with a NavVis backpack? - Yeah, basically yes. Yeah, if you can walk that space with your regular walking speed, this is basically what you can scan at the same time and capture the data as a digital twin model. - Okay, and that's www.NavVis.com? - Yes, www.NavVis.com. The company is from Europe, from Germany. And this is a great example. We have several customers and we know that a couple of the customers we know are using mostly NavVis for the space, but then they are combining the space with the Matterport for the details. So this is where SIMLAB STAGES gets into the picture. That means that you can have one technology for scanning, it can be a point cloud from another systems like Faro, Leica or Trimble or it can be a NavVis, to scan a full size airport. And then particular rooms and high detail engineering equipment might be kind of the Matterport within the one space, one ecosystem and this is what SIMLAB STAGES provides. We are trying to be independent from one exact technology stack and provide all of the needs in one environment. - Sounds like you're the Switzerland of hosting platforms. - Yes, actually I would not call it host because it still stays within the Matterport space or NavVis space or any other technology. We are visualizing this in one environment, making life much easier for everybody, aligned with one particular building, with many teams cooperating with different file packages or software packages. - Great. Just one last question, just want to confirm, NavVis is an official tech partner with SIMLAB? - Yeah, we are a tech partner from NavVis. We also have access to the technology for the API. So whatever is on your NavVis account, we are able to place it inside of SIMLAB STAGES or SIMLAB SIM-ON software. - Awesome. I look forward to getting started with you. So I'm out of my role play there for Sam. I'm going to jump in if you don't mind another role play on a different topic. - Okay, that's fine with me. - Okay, I'm Taylor. I'm the head of facility management for five office buildings, including two we recently bought that have different kinds of IoT sensors/devices. We've been using Matterport MatterTags for our MEP spaces, our mechanical, electrical and plumbing spaces for asset management. I read about SIMLAB SIM-ON in the [www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com] and watched some of the WGAN-TV Podcast shows about SIMLAB SIM-ON. We're just not happy with how we're doing facilities management with the Matterport platform. We really thought using these MatterTags would be awesome, but it really has turned out to be a very cumbersome project and it doesn't really accomplish everything that we've been trying to do. What are some of the ways that SIMLAB SIM-ON could help me get more out of Matterport for facility management? - Well, great to meet you, Taylor because this is basically where our sweet spot for the company is. We want to help facility owners and facility managers to feel more comfortable with their buildings. So step one, do the scan. If you have a Matterport, perfect. Beautiful visualization, which shows you the exact status of the building. What we are doing, we are taking MatterTags to a much higher level of performance, which means that we create MatterTags on Steroids, we call them nodes in our system. Of course, your job is not lost in respect to how much time you spend creating the MatterTags in your existing system because we are importing everything that you did inside of the Matterport. So, we are assigning this to the several categories of the equipment of the assets inside of the building and we give you much, much more on top of that. Good example, if you are having an asset management system, like for example IBM Maximo, which is- - Yeah, our company uses IBM Maximo, but we haven't figured out how to make Matterport and IBM Maximo work together. Is that in SIMLAB SIM-ON? - That's SIMLAB SIM-ON. Of course, you can hire a couple of programmers and do it yourself in the next one or two years, but it's the off the shelf solution, off the shelf feature for SIMLAB SIM-ON. That means that whatever assets or whatever recourse you have in your facility, according to your IBM Maximo, we are able to capture this data and visualize it back inside of the Matterport environment. And both ways, then we can inside of the Matterport environment, which is SIM-ON for us as the framework of this digital twin model. We can create an IBM asset and then link it directly to your software and to your IBM ecosystem. So that's the things that can definitely help you and make your life much easier because as we know, the IBM Maximo is quite an old system. Also, without any visualization. That means that Matterport can become your window into your asset library within the IBM Maximo. - Well that's what we were thinking, oh we really like IBM Maximo, it lets us track all our assets and do some predictive analytics about equipment that's likely to fail, etc. So we're super on board with IBM Maximo, but we felt like we wanted to be able to kind of share with the non-techs that don't use IBM Maximo, a visual metaphor using Matterport in order for people to be able to walk through a Matterport digital twin and actually be able to see tags of each of the assets easily. But I guess we thought somehow Matterport would just work somehow with IBM Maximo and it doesn't. So is that really that SIMLAB SIM-ON? You're the- - Yeah, that's our bread and butter. That's how you work with SIM-ON, it's just a drag and drop feature and functionality. You just need to identify the asset, connect it inside of your Maximo with our special API software. But for you as the regular users just select the target, drop it on the Matterport space and that's all of the linkage. Drag and drop, no programming, pretty easy features for everybody, who are not technical, as well. - Marek, we're pretty far down the road of manually adding MatterTags within the Matterport spaces. Is there some way that you can help us migrate all our existing MatterTags? I think you mentioned nodes. Can you help us migrate our existing MatterTags? - Yeah. - Please give me a solution? - If you have your existing tags already in the Matterport, for us, it's just pretty easy to import and export features. You can load it in from the CSV file for example, or JSON files from your, and the other systems. But if you have those kinds of questions, just contact us. We can do this for you and make sure that it works correctly. But if you are already having one of those systems like Procore or Maximo, we are able to just go there, read it and for you just drag and drop. Because even if you're going to load this to our system, you need to identify the position in the space. So this is the only job we require from you. If you have like five, 100, 1,000 tags, please show me what's in the space. And that's the only drawback is that you need to do it manually. But you are not there yet with the object recognition and understanding the customer buildings yet. - Okay. So again, just for clarification, I just want to double check that SIMLAB is an IBM Maximo Application Suite official partner? - Yes. - I mentioned that we've acquired some other buildings. We've worked so hard on our existing buildings to standardize on certain IoT sensors/devices and all of a sudden, we bought some other buildings and they're using different sensors. And is this something you can help us with? - Oh yes. This is also where we are very much specialized. This is the one of the first features that we were designing and actually creating inside of SIMLAB SIM-ON, which is the building automation control and IoT sensor control. That means that if you are into the subject and you are trying to work with the big automations, you will find out there are a number of formats regardless of where you are in the geographic area of our world, there are different standards. Most of them are like- - Maybe tick off some of them and that'll help prompt. - KNX, Modbus. - Go slowly for me. - KNX, Modbus. - We use KNX, we use Modbus, What else? - Okay, so as you know, those two don't talk to each other and to do it, you need to have a lot of programming, some hardware devices in the middle as the Google translator, let's call it, to make it work. What we are doing, we are able to connect over 50 different communication protocols for the building automation systems and devices and make them work together in one ecosystem. Which means if you already have a building which is like 20, 30 years old with existing Modbus or BACnet protocols driving the HVAC systems or security cameras or any other automation control, then you are able just to buy a cheap sensor for like $100, $200 from any other existing today on the market 30 years later. Automation providers, producers and just make them work even if it's a different format in different protocol of the communication. So our partners like NETxAutomation from Austria are masters in this kind of Google translate communication between different protocols. What we are doing, we are taking their technology under the hood of the Matterport and allowing you to connect all of the systems in a building into one visualization environment of Matterport. This is huge because right now, we are under several projects where we are getting to the existing buildings for a big brands which are having a problem where there's always this engine room where there's always this IT guy sitting or like a manager of the building, facility manager sitting in that basement or somewhere in a small room without the doors. And in that case that we are working right now, they have eight different computers with eight different monitors, one for HVAC, another for the security control, another for the motion detections, another one for the blind systems or like a light control. And this system does not talk to each other. - Yeah, it sounds like you're describing our various office buildings and we've been pulling our hair out. So it sounds like NETxAutomation is a solution for eliminating the Tower of Babel of all these different devices that don't talk to each other. So is it kind of like all the sensor data goes through NETxAutomation in order to then present it within a- - Then that's what we do. We then bring our visualization toolkit where we bring the assets already existing from IBM Maximo or the ones that you'll put manually. But also we are taking this IoT control and building automation control from existing very expensive and complex systems. They simply don't talk to each other. Since now they are starting to talk to each other, now you can optimize the performance of the building. Now you can work on the economy of the sustainability of the building where one system can have amplifications on working on another system. So this is how digitalization helps to drive your building more eco-friendly, but also more being more aware of what's happening in it. This predictive maintenance you said before, that's also a part of it, which pump is... Okay, the pump which we identified malfunctioned after five or 10 years of use, where the same pump is used in the same engine room in that building, right? How many of them are there? Where is it? In what ecosystem is working? What's the temperature? What's the moisture of the room, this is how digitalization will allow you to be much more eco-friendly. - Yes. - And much more aware. - And I thank you and I mentioned that we have multiple locations and I'm the head of facilities management, so I'm really trying to monitor all these pressure, temperature, moisture, all these different sensors and I'm pulling my hair out because they're all different standards. In fact, I made a little list of some of just some of the sensors we're using from KNX IoTech, FIBARO by Nice Group, Schneider Electric, Smart Homes, SmartThings from Samsung. Are these all things that would play nice together? - Yeah, this is what you said. Mostly, it's a brand of the producer of the equipment and they are using different protocols. Of course, they don't talk to each other. What we are providing, as I said before, is the Tower of Babel translate of all of this to make one working ecosystem. So there are at least 20 I can add to that list, which you might have in your building and you aren't even aware of them. But we can connect all of the data. We can be a single source of truth for all of the documentation in your buildings, making you much more aware and visualize it in a 3D space of digital twin models. - I kind of feel like I'm trying to watch or change channels while watching TV in my living room. And in order to change among 10 different channels, I literally have to have 10 different TV sets because the standards for television are all, each channel somehow has their own way to broadcast television. It's really crazy. - It's always being done. The problem is on the construction side, that's why having one software that is serving for the full lifecycle of the process from construction to the maintenance and operation and the handover data is I hope solving this problem. But how is it done today? If you are building a commercial building, you are scoping out HVAC installation. And this is coming with software to drive that system and the control panels. Then you are scoping out the lighting to another company which is doing that part of the thing. Then you have elevators and the shafts, which are working with different systems. And those systems, they have their own individual applications to be driven and the control systems and they are missing all of those one level above solution. And this is where we are fixing this in existing buildings. And this is where I see it's a huge chance for digitalization companies and capturing services companies where we can help existing buildings -- not only the new ones -- being more effective and bringing the data all together in front of your eyes. - So I know you mentioned that this NETxAutomation kind of solves the Tower of Babel. Do I need to place an order with SIMLAB that's different from my order with NETxAutomation? - It's very simple technology combined all together. So we can do it separately, but what we strongly prefer is that SIMLAB be a one-stop shop for your problems and we can do it under the hood of one project. - That would be my preference would be just to have one company contract and have -- So I could do that with SIMLAB and you'll sell me the appropriate license that I need for NETxAutomation for our project? - Yeah, yeah. You don't even have to know there is a NETxAutomation behind the closed doors. But what we want to do, we want to make you feel more comfortable with that building and bring all of the data in your dashboards. - And so just to confirm that SIMLAB is an official partner with KNX, with FIBARO by Nice, Schneider Electric, Smart Home, SmartThings from Samsung, these are all official partners as part of your tech stack? - Yes. - Awesome. I did notice one other tech partner on your website, Homey. I was thinking about maybe doing a little project in our house. I'm kind of... I'd like to kind of be able to play in the house. Can you talk to me a little bit about Homey? Just for a moment about Homey? - Yeah, I feel that you are a little bit like in my shoes because working with those big commercial buildings, bringing the technology of today's doors and today's front lines, it's fine. But you know, what about my house? So we also integrated a couple of technologies, which are only for and are preserved as the homeowner IoT systems like Homey for example, Fibaro as well. Samsung SmartThings also works from home. So if you want to use the same technology that you are using at your work at your home, you can actually, do not even need to call us. You can go to [www.SIM-ON.com] ... get to the software, register yourself and put your credentials for Homey or Fibaro or SmartThings and start using this when you have the multiple scan already done. - Okay, great. And if I'd like to talk to a SIMLAB representative about SIM-ON, I would just go to www.SIM-ON.com or www.SIMLABinc.com and just fill out a form and get a callback from someone at SIMLAB that could help? - Or you can go to our YouTube channel just by Googling, searching for our name and there's a lot of tutorials helping you to do this, experience yourself with a little bit of the effort and just in a couple of minutes. - Okay, so your YouTube channel is @SIMLABinc - Yes. - Okay, thank you. And I also noticed there were a lot of related videos about SIMLAB, SIMLAB STAGES, SIMLAB SIM-ON, and then [www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com] and then I obviously took some time to look at some of the other WGAN-TV Podcast episodes that we're doing deep dives on this topic at: www.WGAN.info/SIMLABonWGAN So I'm going to come out of character here. I'm no longer Taylor, I'm back to being Dan. Take a moment, Marek. And maybe at a big picture level, 30 seconds, a minute, just the big picture of how you would describe SIMLAB STAGES. - Well, if you want to control your construction process, this is the one toolkit to keep all of the data in one place, not only for the construction, but this is the priceless data for you. If something is broken or you need to do a quick fix five, 10 years later, this is your insurance policy that your construction is being well monitored and you have all of the data in place. - And take 30 seconds or a minute and tell me about SIMLAB SIM-ON, big picture. - Okay, if digitalization and 3D scanning is already existing in your mindset and you are thinking about capturing your space, you need to have data that works with your space, live data from your asset management systems, from your building automation systems or even solving the problems on site. And this is what SIMLAB SIM-ON helps you with. Within the 3D digitalization of Matterport images, which are easy and intuitive for all of the stack of the personnel that you are hiring in your building. - And for SIMLAB SIM-ON, is it Matterport and NavVis? - NavVis as well. - And other file formats? - We don't, we are planning on it because we want to have SIM-ON to work also with the blueprints. So maybe just a picture of the blueprints, but that's under development. So as I said, we want to be kind of agnostic with the preferred solutions for different purposes. If you want to have a large space, you need to go with the NavVis. If you want to have a quality and a visual experience, Matterport is the case. If you are just a homeowner and you want to do with your blueprint or with your sketch or picture, just you the picture. - Okay. So on the construction progress monitoring, once the construction project is done, can the SIMLAB STAGES project then move to SIMLAB SIM-ON for facilities management? - Yes, with one button, you export the data to SIM-ON. There's a simple process that takes a couple of minutes only and it allows you to select which data you want to transform from the construction towards the face maintenance operation. Because not everything is needed, but the one that is important, you can just send it like this. And since STAGES and SIM-ON are the same ecosystem of the products, one login allows you to always go back to the STAGES if you want to have a full timeline of the building and the full story of the construction back to your attention. If not, just select which scan, which data, which assets are important for the maintenance, and then just export it to SIMLAB SIM-ON. So you can use it with a much bigger number of the users of the same building. It can be a maintenance team, it can be subcontractors, it can be banks, it can be insurance agents, but also tenants in your facility. - Awesome We've talked about five websites. I'd just like to repeat them. So for our viewers that are interested specifically in construction progress monitoring in the AEC space is go to: www.SIM-STAGES.com If you're interested in facilities management, go to: www.SIM-ON.com You can always go to the parent website: www.SIMLABinc.com From there, you can also get to STAGES and to SIM-ON and any of those three sites, you can complete a form to have a representative of SIMLAB get back to you. In addition, Marek, you mentioned the SIMLAB YouTube channel as a source of a lot of short training videos. The SIMLAB YouTube channel: @SIMLABinc And then, we've done a number of WGAN-TV Podcast episodes with SIMLAB, both on SIMLAB STAGES and SIMLAB SIM-ON. And you can see all those episodes at the short link: www.WGAN.info/SIMLABonWGAN And certainly, we've written a lot about SIMLAB, SIMLAB STAGES, SIMLAB SIM-ON, in the We Get Around Network forum: www.WeGetAroundNetworkForum.com Marek, thanks again for being back on the show. - It was my pleasure. Thank you very much. - So for Marek in Poland, I'm Dan Smigrod, founder of the We Get Around Network Forum in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Thanks for watching WGAN-TV Live at 5. |
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| Hi Dan and SIMLAB team, After watching this impressive overview of SIMLAB's tech integrations, I believe there's one game-changing technology that could take SIMLAB "through the roof" - 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). As someone working with Matterport, I've been amazed by the photorealism and performance that 3D Gaussian Splatting offers. The technology delivers unprecedented levels of detail with accurate lighting and reflections while maintaining real-time rendering speeds. What makes 3DGS particularly exciting is that it's now accessible directly on mobile devices through apps like Scaniverse, which can process scans on-device I'm especially impressed with SIMLAB's desktop solutions. The desktop STAGES standalone software already supports various file formats like .ifc, .fbx, .obj, .xyz and .e57, and provides split-screen modes for simultaneous navigation. Since SIMLAB STAGES already supports various point cloud formats, adding PLY support for 3DGS data would be a natural extension. Imagine combining SIMLAB's powerful IoT integrations and timeline features with the photorealism of 3DGS - it would create one of the most comprehensive and visually stunning digital twin platform on the market. Would love to hear if this is on SIMLAB's roadmap! |
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| @MeshImages Thank you for watching and this level of detail. @Jedrzej @SIMLAB Double-checking that you saw above from @MeshImages @MeshImages The weekend has already started for SIMLAB team. May be Monday before you hear back. Thanks for your patience. Best, Dan |
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| @MeshImages FYI ... This free webinar is Saturday, 21 June 2025 at 11 am ET (3 PM UTC) Free IVRPA Webinar: Gaussian Splatting | Part I: Getting Started Dan |
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| @DanSmigrod thank you, I've been following this workshop series from IVRPA already for a while. Great speakers and topics covered there. Now they also dive into Gaussian Splatting. I guess we will see great content created with this new technology in the coming years. | ||
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