Virtual TAS

Actionable Insight. Our Disaster SMART Tasmanian Communities Workshop is on. A room full of passionate stakeholders who want to make a difference. Enzen Australia Virtual TAS NNNCo (National Narrowband Network Co) #disaters #disaterresilience #climateadaptation #iot #digitaltwin

Community Disaster Resilience. It is critical as we look globally at recent hurricane events in the US, record rain and flooding in Europe, and severe storm events locally in Tasmania. The greater frequency and intensity of these events requires us to adapt our infrastructure, assets, communities and the way we do things. With Tassie now having a very rich spatial and situational data foundation, the opportunity is with us to collectively mine and process that data to deliver actionable insights and use cases to increase community resilience to bushfires, cyclones, flooding and severe storm events. I'm looking forward to engaging with stakeholders at our second Disaster SMART Tasmanian Communities workshop in Hobart next week to translate data into outcomes. At Enzen Australia we are proud to work with the Preparing Australian Communities program owner, the Commonwealth Government, and our delivery partners Virtual TAS, 42-24, and NNNCo (National Narrowband Network Co) to support our communities. #disasterresilience #digitaltwin #IoT #situationalintelligence #AI #communityresilience

Great to speak about Virtual TAS and our Vision at the Geospatial Council of Australia's at the State of GIS (TAS) conference today in Hobart. Good to see a strong turn out from the GIS and Spatial community. Looking forward to our official market launch next week. #Digitaltwin #GIS #AI #IoT

How can communities in Australia become more resilient to the devastating effects of bushfires caused by climate change? As part of the federal government’s Preparing Australian Communities disaster resilience initiative, Enzen Australia has launched Disaster Smart Tasmanian Communities (DSTC). Central to the project is Virtual TAS, a 4D digital twin of Tasmania’s above ground infrastructure, built and natural environments, created by Enzen Australia for its partnership with 42-24, the technology subsidiary of TasNetworks. The video below showcases how the 4D digital twin LiDAR dataset can help manage risk by quantifying fire hazards and assessing the effectiveness of risk remediation methods. A ‘hazard reduction burn’ is one tool for managing bushfire risk. The digital twin, with its rich multi-spectral and forest penetrating sensors, offers multiple ways of quantifying the change in flammable biomass associated with such burns. Industry standard analysis methods such as NDVI (Normalised Difference Vegetation Index) use both visible and NIR (Near Infrared) optical wavelengths to directly measure plant health, and therefore assess forest recovery after the fire. This is complemented by volumetric analysis methods such as biomass estimation. Biomass is categorised into low, medium and high height strata and visualised as separate colour bands. The forest-penetrating LiDAR data also allows us to view directly the density of vegetation in cross section, picking up the thinning of vegetation within the fire zone. On the flip side of the coin, managing the proximity of assets such as electrical poles and wires to flammable material is crucial to preemptively reducing risk. The digital twin offers best-in-class monitoring of vegetation clearances at scale across the electrical network, helping to keep communities safer and more resilient to natural disaster. Look out for more videos in the coming weeks on LinkedIn, as we showcase how the DSTC is improving the safety, wellbeing and prosperity of communities in Tasmania. To learn more about Virtual TAS’s mission, visit: https://lnkd.in/gmwQ-jiN #energy #digitalisation #Tasmania #energytransformation #energytransition #netzero #utilities #digitalreality #assetperformance #disasterresilience #LiDAR #AI #BigData #smartutility #netzeroemissions #AI #smartgrid #smartforest #climatechangeadaptation #bushfires #smartgrid #digitaltwin #IoT #LoRaWAN

The climate emergency is seeing a rise in extreme weather across Australia. From severe floods to raging bushfires, such natural disasters have devastating consequences for the safety, wellbeing and prosperity of urban and rural communities. Our Disaster Smart Tasmanian Communities (DSTC) project uses the latest in spatial data technology and AI to mitigate the risk caused by such disasters in the Australian state. DSTC is funded by the federal government as part of its Preparing Australian Communities disaster resilience initiative. Powering the DSTC project is Virtual TAS , a 10-year joint venture between 42-24 the technology subsidiary of TasNetworks and Enzen Australia. In the video below, you can see how Virtual TAS is creating a 4D digital twin of Tasmania’s above ground infrastructure, built and natural environments, captured at high resolution for the specific purposes of supplying new high-quality LiDAR spatial datasets for all sorts of Digital Twin use cases. By capturing the built environment in its context, users can see the proximity of infrastructure to natural hazards like falling trees and flammable material. The outcome of Virtual TAS is a virtual world view of spatial data at high efficiency and low cost. With the data available to Tasmania’s businesses and communities, the state is able to make smarter infrastructure decisions and improve its disaster resilience in the long term. Look out for more exciting use cases and videos in the coming weeks on LinkedIn, as we showcase the different capabilities and potential of Virtual TAS and the DSTC. To learn more about Virtual TAS’s mission, visit: https://lnkd.in/gmwQ-jiN #energy #digitalisation #Tasmania #energytransformation #energytransition #netzero #utilities #digitalreality #assetperformance #disasterresilience #LiDAR #AI #BigData #smartutility #netzeroemissions #AI #smartgrid #smartforest #climatechangeadaptation #bushfires #smartgrid #digitaltwin #IoT #LoRaWAN