Data Acquisition Service for ENCORE Architecture
The main objective of ENCORE H2020 project is to increase the share of renovated stock in Europe and worldwide by providing effective and affordable BIM tools that cover the whole renovation life-cycle (from data collection to project execution, and commissioning/delivery). ENCORE will also provide mechanisms for the dwellers or owners to validate the project, either on-site with Augmented/Mixed Reality solutions, or on-line. Once the project is validated, ENCORE will automatically generate the work planning for the construction works, and once finalized, ENCORE will provide continuous monitoring of the energy consumption to ensure the non-degradation of the renovation works. The Data Acquisition Service (DAS) is a part of BIM based Support Tools and is considered as an External System that belongs to the Data Sources layer within the ENCORE architecture. As a part of the Data Sources layer, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) will collect point-clouds and photographs that will be uploaded into the Data Capture layer for off-line processing in the ENCORE Engines. In this talk we give a detailed description of the first prototype of DAS, describing its hardware and software components, which includes 1) UAVs electronics and avionics, 2) on-board sensors, 3) ground station, 4) communication system, 5) UAVs software modules, and 6) ground station software modules. We also present the simulation results, as well as preliminary experimental results obtained by manual control of a single UAV.