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In 2023, AI 2.0, represented by large models, officially entered the competitive commercial stage, marking the halfway point of the 16-year Earth Clone Program by 51WORLD.
On August 18th, the brand-new 51CIM 2.0 platform was unveiled at EC6, featuring six core capabilities that support the CIM 2.0 platform: the next-generation digital foundation AES 5.0, the next-generation business development platform WDP 5.0, the next-generation simulation platform ISE 2.0, the next-generation AIGC product matrix, the next-generation digital asset platform DTA, and the digital twin creation loop.
51CIM 2.0 Officially Released
On August 18th, the 6th Earth Clone Program Conference (EC6), organized by 51WORLD, was grandly held in the Suzhou Industrial Park.
One of the six major specialized forums within the EC6 conference, the Urban and Park Forum, focused on topics related to urban governance and park management empowered by technologies such as digital twins, 5G, and AI. It provided guidance for the development of smart cities and smart industrial parks. During the Urban and Park Forum, 51WORLD’s Urban and Park Division officially launched the highly anticipated new generation CIM 2.0 platform.
51CIM is designed to address issues related to sensitive data, high performance, large data volumes, and the reuse of GIS data. It creates a dynamic, sustainable, and cloud-native architecture for three-dimensional data foundations, offering a low-cost, low-code toolkit for digital twin urban scene and application development, empowering industry applications to meet the diverse needs of users.
As the development of digital twin cities enters deeper waters, 51CIM continues to innovate and evolve. The all-new 51CIM 2.0 further extends the depth and breadth of its applications, achieving a comprehensive upgrade in functionality, performance, and many other dimensions!
Six Core Capabilities of CIM 2.0
The all-new CIM 2.0 platform possesses six core capabilities, which are essential for the next generation of digital twin cities. These include the next-generation digital foundation, the next-generation business development platform, the next-generation simulation platform, the next-generation AIGC product matrix, the next-generation digital asset platform, and a self-controlled digital twin creation loop.
The Next-Generation Digital Foundation AES 5.0
51AES (All Element Scene) is a fully self-developed digital foundation by 51WORLD that integrates all real-world physical elements. It possesses the capability for real-time rendering of ultra-large-scale scenes and all-element unitization. AES 5.0 brings another round of upgrades in precision, speed, and capabilities, enabling the CIM platform to generate larger, more precise, and more dynamic all-element scenes with finer and more realistic results.
Higher Precision: Each frame can handle several billion triangle faces, ensuring higher fidelity in replicating elements such as roads, buildings, rivers, lakes, and vegetation.
Faster Speed: It can generate a high-precision scene of 1 square kilometer in just 10 seconds, and even thousands of square kilometers can run smoothly at high frame rates.
Enhanced Capability: It is compatible with mainstream 3D data formats such as GIS, OSGB, BIM, FBX, and more. AI intelligently supplements scenes like roads, buildings, vegetation, and water bodies, resulting in a more comprehensive set of data elements and a more complete spatial representation.
The Next-Generation Business Development Platform WDP API + CIM API
The next-generation business development platform, WDP 5.0, has achieved integrated project and platform delivery, which means ‘delivering a project equals delivering a platform.’ This promotes a two-way transformation between project-based users and platform users. It focuses on the common needs of non-professional developers, professional developers, and end-users, continuously lowering the threshold and costs for scenario creation and panel development. This attracts an increasing number of developers and end-users to engage in digital twin development and applications.
Leveraging WDP 5.0’s open API calls and flexible interaction, CIM customers can achieve micro-scene editing and business development.
WDP API: Platform basic services provide users with foundational capabilities. With its completely new object-oriented design and more user-friendly interaction, it is suitable for various industries.
CIM API: It offers expanded services for the urban industry. This new upgrade supports the loading and rendering of larger-scale and larger-volume data, providing users with robust business-related capabilities, with a focus on planning, construction, emergency response, urban governance, and other business scenarios.
The Next-Generation Simulation Platform ISE 2.0
ISE (Infinite Simulation Engine) is an open digital twin simulation engine with simulation data access and representation, simulation algorithm services, event simulation, and three-dimensional design simulation capabilities. With the rich platform simulation capabilities of ISE, the CIM platform facilitates the transition from the visual stage of digital twin scenario construction to the simulation stage, encompassing finite element simulation, hydrological simulation, traffic simulation, and more.
The all-new ISE 2.0 provides three new capabilities:
ISE VTK (Simulation Data Access and Representation): It supports the access to simulation result data from multiple sources and provides diverse updating and representation methods. It can achieve capabilities like heat maps, grids, flow fields, point clouds, volume rendering, and finite element analysis. It supports various industries to encapsulate and develop industry-specific functions on this basis, enhancing the delivery capability for industry requirements.
ISE Mass (Simulation Algorithm Services): It offers a complete set of simulation capability frameworks from the algorithm layer to the data layer and visualization layer. It provides diverse solutions for the needs of different user types. By providing complete simulation entity data structure standards and improving compatibility, it supports the integration of industry simulation capabilities with other industry APIs.
ISE Event (Dynamic Event Editor): It offers features for dragging and placing characters, vehicles, objects, and special effects (fire effects, explosion effects, leakage effects, etc.), as well as path animation and event animation editing. Users can organize and compile dynamic events on their own. This can be applied to various emergency plan management, plan compilation, plan drills, and implementation.
The Next-Generation AIGC Product Matrix
AIGC has broken the triangle of good quality, fast speed, and low cost, significantly reducing the cost of creation and reshaping the digital twin industry.
51WORLD has been actively exploring application implementation and has developed three AIGC applications: AIGC-WORLD, AIGC-WDP, and Scenario Copilot.
These three AIGC applications integrate three core technologies: pre-trained large language models, digital modeling, and reinforcement learning. They assist developers and ordinary users in creating 3D content, developing applications, training autonomous driving, and more, using natural language interaction. This lowers the product adoption threshold and brings lower costs and higher benefits.
Leveraging 51WORLD’s experience and practice in the field of AIGC, the CIM platform achieves autonomous and intelligent generation of three-dimensional scenes.
The Next-Generation Digital Asset Platform 51DTA
Digital assets and data elements are recognized as the fifth category of production factors and are expected to have unprecedented commercial and practical value in the future. The 51DTA digital asset platform will provide centralized management, sharing, and multi-cloud distribution of massive digital assets and cloud rendering applications, meeting the needs of 51CIM users for rapidly loading 3D content.
Before using DTA: Assets are scattered, difficult to locate, low reusability, lack of maintenance, inconsistent standards, and varying quality.
After using DTA: Unified digital asset management, unified quality standards, unified maintenance, convenient search, high reusability, support for official data, and custom databases.
The Digital Twin Creation Loop
51WORLD has been vigorously promoting the localization and compatibility of its products, fully supporting domestic software and hardware platforms. It has already completed compatibility with mainstream domestic operating systems and hardware. Additionally, at the EC6 conference, 51WORLD, in collaboration with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and Suzhou Newland NewTech Group, initiated the establishment of the Digital Twin Creation Loop Ecosystem Alliance.
The alliance is dedicated to providing a comprehensive and mature creation loop service for enterprises and ecosystem partners with a demand for domestic digital twin applications. This aims to accelerate the replacement of the entire digital twin industry chain with domestic solutions.
In the future, 51WORLD will continue to strengthen its independent research and development capabilities, actively participate in alliance building, and introduce new dynamics to ensure information system security and enhance the autonomous and controllable capabilities of the industry chain.
The establishment of the alliance, along with 51WORLD’s all-encompassing technology independence strategy, will provide strong support for the autonomy and controllability of the CIM platform and the domestic replacement of the entire industry chain.
The Three Major Versions of CIM 2.0
The CIM 2.0 platform is divided into three versions: Air, Pro, and Max.
CIM 2.0 Air (Basic platform, ultimate cost-effectiveness)
Product Positioning: Designed for the construction of digital twin operations and management for small and medium-sized parks. This includes but is not limited to parks, communities, hospitals, schools, venues, exhibition centers, museums, scenic areas, etc., meeting the need for rapid deployment with extremely low construction costs and fast implementation.
Value Capabilities: CIM 2.0 Air is divided into ‘Scenario Edition’ and ‘Business Edition.’
The majority of digital twin scene construction for parks, communities, hospitals, schools, venues, exhibition centers, museums, and scenic areas can be covered and utilized.
The Business Edition is suitable for turnkey projects, with quick reuse of standard business processes in dozens of industry lines. It offers management and monitoring capabilities based on business data, achieving the integration of time-space data and business data, as well as closed-loop business processing. It provides standard UI design, business design, and custom data interface integration, allowing standard project delivery without the need for a professional development team.
CIM 2.0 Pro (Standard platform, market mainstream)
Product Positioning: A standardized product designed to cover the mainstream markets of digital twin cities and parks. Based on the next-generation business development platform, industry-standard plugins/standard business packages, the focus is on data-driven and business collaboration. This enables the rapid construction of applications for large parks and small to medium-sized urban industries, helping customers achieve digital management and accelerate digital transformation and upgrade.
Typical Use Case: Beijing Chaoyang Jianwai Street Smart Government Platform
Beijing Jianwai Street has been actively promoting digitalization and exploring a ‘one network, one brain, one platform’ digital governance system to create an innovative grassroots governance model that encompasses all elements, covers the entire process, and ensures comprehensive security. By continuously exploring the use of digital twin concepts and technologies like the city’s brain, they have integrated data and models as the foundation, linking buildings, events, organizations, and the population in the jurisdiction to a digital system foundation. This has evolved into a virtual model consistent with the real world, allowing for precise scheduling and management of full-scale data.
CIM 2.0 Max (Custom platform, industry benchmark)
Product Capabilities: Focused on professional customization, creating an industry benchmark for CIM applications. In addition to empowering urban foundational applications with the next-generation business development platform and industry-standard plugins, CIM 2.0 Max also emphasizes high-value scenarios like simulation and decision analysis. Through system customization and reconstruction capabilities, it monitors the development and trends of urban operations. It achieves the synergy and intelligence of governance capabilities.
Typical Case: Wuxi Economic Development Zone Digital Twin Platform
The ‘Wuxi Economic Development Zone Digital Twin Platform,’ jointly constructed by 51WORLD and the Jiangsu Provincial Institute of Surveying and Mapping, is an excellent practice of integrating physical space and digital twin space in the era of the digital economy. This case is focused on the goals of ‘seeing, foreseeing, and emergency scheduling’ and centered on ‘good governance, benefiting the people, and promoting business.’ It places great importance on the establishment of an efficient city operation management center, creating a unified digital twin foundation, and accelerating the development of a fascinating chapter of Chinese-style modernization in Wuxi. By enhancing data applications and capability support, it has built several application scenarios such as urban planning and city investment, forming six major collaborative characteristics encompassing space, equipment, data, events, construction management, and industry. It contributes to Wuxi’s ambition to ‘become a city example of Chinese-style modernization and create a demonstration area for high-quality development, embodying the new development concept.
Conclusion
With the formal release of the ‘Overall Layout Plan for Digital China Construction,’ the construction of digital twin cities has officially entered deep waters, marking a digital revolution in the urban industry.
The introduction of the 51CIM 2.0 series of products signifies a new evolution of next-generation digital twin technology in the field of smart cities. It brings unprecedented opportunities for every participant in urban construction, management, planning, and operations.
51CIM 2.0 will accelerate the widespread application of digital twin technology in the smart city domain, enabling city managers to better understand urban operations, make wiser decisions, use resources more efficiently, and provide better services to citizens. This will not only expedite the development of smart cities, laying the foundation for digital governance and innovation but also provide strong support for the construction of Digital China. It will promote the role of digital twin technology in national development, driving cities towards a more intelligent, sustainable, livable, and resilient future.
