First Global Twin Deployment
First Kognitwin deployment outside Norway.
Lesson
Full-stack can mean more than code or front- & back-end.
The lesson in full: While I considered myself a full-stack developer before, this experience dramatically expanded my perception of that term: interpreting customer needs and feedback cycles on the ‘front’; data integration, contextualization, ever-green delta pipelines on the ‘back’; multi-region synchronization and images deployment on the ‘infrastructure’. The downside: doing full-stack in such an ‘end-to-end’ way requires a big ‘context-window’, making handover extremely complicated.
What it is
After the successful Enterprise Framework Agreement, the first ‘global’ Kognitwin deployment outside of Norway covered 5 facilities in Trinidad & Tobago. I took on the deployment lead role for ~1 year, working closely with the end user on a daily basis with a team spanning 3 continents. Key aspects included: direct customer communication requiring close collaboration; data integration with both ‘offline’ data (3D models, video, 360 images) and ‘live’ data via webhooks and third-party APIs; feature development including PnID Quality Dashboard, Iframe with synchronized camera, HTML Overlays for the internal 3D engine; and multi-region resource management and synchronization in Azure.
Results
- Deployed to 5 offshore facilities in Trinidad & Tobago.
- Scale out of singular customer thinking.
- Architecture and pipeline framework for data integration.
Tools and technologies
Data Integration · Webhooks · Multi-Region Infrastructure · Azure
Lineage
Built on lessons from Digital Twin Platform, First Twin Admin.
Lessons carried into Drawings to 3D Scene, Situation Awareness Cockpit, Task Orchestration V2, Deployment CLI and SDK, Real-Time 2D/3D Collaboration, Point Cloud Streaming.