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Google Maps Now Supports Apple’s CarPlay

Tech giant Google has announced major changes in the Google Maps on Apple platforms, which will change how the navigation app works for cars. Google Maps will now work with the dashboard view on Apple’s CarPlay screens, allowing users to see maps and media controls side by side. The feature will start rolling out with the next iOS update.

Three years after it pulled Maps from iOS for Apple Watch, Google has announced the return of Maps to the smartwatch alongside support for Apple’s CarPlay dashboard. Google Maps on Apple Watch will help users navigate by car, bike and public transport, or on foot. The app will also provide ETA and step-by-step directions for the destinations already saved.

Seamless Navigation • Users can see maps and media controls • Car, bike, and public transport or on foot navigation • ETA and step-by-step directions

HawkEye Introduces All New Geolocation Data Service for Large Regions

Advantages • Massive data collection across a broad area • Deeper situational awareness • Periodic data and analytics of areas of interest HawkEye 360 Inc. has started offering a daily Regional Awareness Subscription (RAS) service, which delivers mission-critical insights by allowing organizations to identify, monitor and analyze signal behavior over time. Large-scale RF signal mapping provides deeper situational awareness in these regions, with the datasets enabling trend analysis using traditional and Artificial Intelligence algorithms. HawkEye 360 will work with customers to define a RAS that can span millions of square kilometers. Current RAS collection areas include the Mediterranean, South China Sea, and the Korean Peninsula. HawkEye 360 curates a collection plan that routinely gathers a combination of high-demand signals.

Trimble Introduces New Version of Quadri Cloud-based server

Trimble has introduced a new version of its Quadri Cloud-based BIM server and collaboration platform. This solution will offer an innovative common data environment platform for infrastructure projects, specifically to the European market. Quadri promotes both open formats and third-party software in a bi-directional workflow. Planners, designers and contractors can use their preferred engineering software and add a shared, live project model. The open format software further allows project owners to stay abreast of their project through an equivalent model. All changes in a project are tracked including change history. Quadri will be offered as a software-asa-service solution for model and issue management, bundled with Trimble’s file data management system, Trimble Connect.

Feature Packed • Promotes both open formats and third-party software in a bi-directional workflow • Users can use their preferred engineering software and add a shared, live project model • Customers can access information and documentation to all or any participants

Faro Trek Integrates Automated 3D Laser Scanning with Spot Mobile Robot

FARO Technologies Inc. has announced the release of FARO Trek, a fully autonomous 3D mobile scanning integration built in collaboration with Massachusetts-based robotics firm Boston Dynamics. The solution combines cutting-edge scanning speed and accuracy of the FARO FocusS Laser Scanner with Spot, a quadruped robot capable of remote and autonomous data capture in challenging environments.

Suited for general contractors and construction managers to verify production and quality on jobsites, Trek leverages Spot’s Autowalk feature to create a repeatable automated scanning workflow. This allows for streamlined data collection and improved efficiency. The information collected is the same each time, ensuring enhanced analysis and reporting. Autowalk automates the inspection process after operators initially program the route walking alongside the robot. Relying on sophisticated sensors, Spot is then able to repeat that same route autonomously, and even makes minor adjustments to complete the job.

Exclusive Features • Designed for remote user operation and autonomous sensing • Uses a series of integrated sensors to understand dynamic environments and avoid obstacles or people • Enables data-rich reality capture via an automated experience

Orbital Insight’s GO Property to Give Foot Traffic Analytics Solution to Real Estate Industry Orbital Insight has released GO Property, the real estate industry’s first foot traffic analytics solution built for all asset classes. Real estate customers such as Avison Young, CenterSquare, and Jamestown partnered with Orbital Insight to design an AI platform that can objectively create true trade areas, identify demographic shifts, and determine the best acquisition candidates. GO Property will make it possible to access data anywhere in the US with just a few clicks. Orbital Insight transforms billions of daily anonymized and aggregated mobile location data points to create daily foot traffic estimates and useful KPIs to quantify real estate property performance points.

Major Highlights • Near real-time property visitation levels on a daily basis • True trade areas based on actual customer activity • Demographic trends and customer behavior Autodesk’s ArchiveHub to Boost Auditing, Documentation Tasks for BIM Projects Autodesk has introduced ArchieveHub to help construction managers collect BIM project data for handover documentation or auditing purposes. ArchiveHub is a plug-in for BIM 360, developed by AEC software specialist Matterlab. ArchieveHub allows users to download and browse a complete copy of project information, including version histories, issues, attachments, RFIs and names of companies and individuals. The tool retains the original project data and file structures, including metadata, and comes with a dedicated desktop viewer that makes it possible to filter and search the database via a similar interface to BIM 360.

ArchiveHub will help professionals who have contractual requirements to keep records of projects.

Safe and Smart Storage • Archives can be automated, set at user-defined intervals • All information and file structures are kept intact,

‘minimizing risks of error or incomplete data’