1. Integrate with a wide range of
data sources and tools
Integrate Shared Reality with a wide variety of data sources and tools to unlock its full potential. This includes support for popular CMMS/EAM/ERP, GIS, IT/OT systems as well as Document Management Systems (EDMS) through various file formats, APIs, and more. Data sources and systems of record remain master. Shared Reality boosts their usage, with no need to migrate any data!
With automated API-based updates and intuitive 3D navigation, users can efficiently interact with critical asset information, improve decision-making, and streamline operations.
CMMS/EAM, ERP integration at equipment level
Enhance operational efficiency with integrated equipment-level data visualization in Shared Reality. Our solution connects your CMMS, EAM, or ERP systems with Infobox, providing direct access to key technical information within your 3D reality context.
Example of equipment Infobox following CMMS, EAM, ERP information integration
Key Capabilities:
- Customizable Infoboxes: Display equipment technical attributes (and sub-equipments) tailored to your needs.
- Flexible Data Integration: Integrate Infobox tailored content from .CSV, .xlsx or .Json file format, typically extracted from CMMS/EAM/ERP systems and imported into Shared Reality.
- Automated Updates: Ensure data accuracy with automatic API-based integration at your preferred frequency, keeping the key technical information up-to-date without manual intervention.
- Interactive Information Access: Include hyperlinks for direct access to your CMMS/EAM/ERP… systems.
- 3D Accessibility: Engage all users, including Field workers and subcontractors to view key technical data from 3D equipment selection.
Integration Examples
This integration ensures a centralized, intuitive, and engaging way to access critical asset information, streamlining maintenance, operations, and decision-making.
Drawings (P&ID, PFD, isometrics…) integration for a complete technical representation
Enhance your 3D Reality context by integrating existing P&ID, PFD, isometric drawings, and more, ensuring a comprehensive digital representation of your facility. Shared Reality supports multiple formats and helps you efficiently link legacy flowsheets symbols with 3D Reality assets.
Example of P&ID drawing integration
Key Capabilities:
- Multi-Format Compatibility: Import drawings in SVG, multi pages PDF, JPG, and other image formats for maximum flexibility.
- 3D Association: Link P&ID diagrams at symbol and line level directly to the 3D equipment and pipes of your facility for enhanced contextual understanding.
- CMMS/EAM/ERP Data association: Enrich drawings with equipment technical data, providing a unified view of assets and their operational status.
- Intuitive Navigation: Seamlessly switch between 2D drawings, 3D Reality representation and 1D technical attributes with cross-highlight for better analysis and decision-making.
Integration Examples
This integration bridges the gap between process engineering documentation and 3D reality, improving maintenance, operations, and asset management.
GIS Integration for any Geospatial areas of interest
Enhance situational awareness by integrating geospatial data from your GIS systems directly into your 3D Reality Model context. Shared Reality enables the visualization of critical zones within your facility, ensuring better operational planning and risk management.
Example of ATEX zones integration
Key Capabilities:
- .GeoJson Integration: Extract from GIS systems your Geospatial areas of interest at the .GeoJson file format and import them into Shared Reality.
- Geospatial Data Overlay: Display ATEX/hazardous areas, confined spaces, Asbestos/Lead sampling points, MMR/MRI, and more within the 3D Reality.
- Optimized Decision-Making, safety & compliance: Visualize and track critical safety areas to improve maintenance, inspections, and operational workflows.
Integration Examples
This integration bridges GIS and 3D reality, offering a comprehensive, data-driven view of your facility for improved efficiency and risk mitigation.
Telemetry & sensors data integration through SCADA and/or data historian
Streamline operations by integrating (real-time) sensor data and IIoT insights directly into Shared Reality. Our solution bridges 3D Reality Models and telemetry systems, reducing the time spent searching for critical asset status or alarms.
Key Capabilities:
- SCADA & Data Historian Connectivity: Extract information from your OT systems and import them into Shared Reality. For Realtime sensor data and deeper integration, see section “3- Extend”
- Unified Information Access: View equipment metadata from multiple OT systems in a single, interactive infobox.
- Contextualized Data in 1D/2D/3D: Navigate seamlessly from technical records to 3D Reality Models and 2D drawings, ensuring quick and informed decision-making.
- Direct System Access: Open a session in your system of record directly from the infoBox hyperlinks for deeper analysis.
Integration Examples
This integration eliminates information silos, enabling faster diagnostics, improved monitoring, and smarter asset management within a fully immersive 3D Reality Model.
Ground/Orthophotography integration for full 3D reality context
Enhance your 3D Reality Model with precise ground topology integration using .TIFF Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and .GeoTIFF orthophotos file format. Shared Reality seamlessly incorporates your high-resolution geospatial data (or the data provided by third parties) to provide an accurate representation of your facility’s terrain.
Example of .TIFF Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and .GeoTIFF orthophotos integration
Key Capabilities:
- .TIFF and .GeoTIFF Support: Import and visualize ground topology with industry-standard georeferenced imagery.
- Enhanced 3D Context: Integrate real-world terrain data for a more immersive and realistic visualization.
- Automatic Google Maps Data integration: If no orthophoto is available, we extract relevant terrain information from Google Maps to ensure a comprehensive 3D Reality.
Integration Examples
This integration enriches your digital twin, providing a more contextualized and data-driven experience.
EDMS (Document Management System) integration for procedures, datasheets…
Enhance asset management by integrating your Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) or any data storage (Microsoft SharePoint…) directly into your 3D Reality Model. Access critical documents effortlessly, ensuring teams have the right information at the right time.
Key Capabilities:
- Comprehensive Document Integration: Link procedures, datasheets, drawings, safety reports and more to their corresponding assets.
- Contextualized Access in 3D: Open relevant documents from the infobox hyperlinks, reducing search time and improving efficiency.
- Materials Sampling Reports: Easily access sampling reports directly from each sampling point within the 3D Reality, ensuring compliance and safety monitoring.
Integration Examples
This integration bridges technical documentation with 3D reality, providing a centralized, intuitive, and efficient way to access and manage critical information.
2. Connect with deeplinks
Bring the integration to the next level with Shared Reality deeplinks.
Deeplinks are URLs with a predefined syntax that allow direct access to an activity in another web application when clicked. Shared Reality generated a dedicated URL that can be added to your Enterprise tools for each piece of equipment. Add your own deeplinks into the infobox to perform specific actions in your CMMS, EAM, ERP, GIS or any other Enterprise tools.
Enhance workflow efficiency with deeplink integration, enabling seamless navigation between Shared Reality and other enterprise tools. This mechanism ensures a fluid, bidirectional connection allowing users to access the right information in context and take action instantly.
Copy a direct link on each piece of equipment and paste it in your Enterprise tools… Add your own deeplinks to launch predefined actions in your Enterprise systems (OSIsoft PI, SAP PM…)
Key Capabilities:
- Contextual Navigation: Direct users from external Enterprise tools (CMMS, ERP, GIS, etc.) to a specific equipment within Shared Reality’s 3D Reality.
- Actionable Workflows: Launch predefined actions, such as creating a Work Order or updating records, by opening specific workflows in your enterprise systems from a Shared Reality InfoBox.
- Seamless User Experience: Eliminate time-consuming searches by ensuring users land exactly where they need to act, improving productivity and reducing errors.
This bidirectional connection strengthens collaboration between 3D Reality Models and operational Enterprise systems, making Shared Reality a natural Operation System of your Information System (IS).
3. Extend with flexible API and custom connectors
Achieve the highest level of integration and connection by extending Shared Reality with tailor-made connectors. Our expert services ensure fast, deep, bidirectional connectivity, enabling real-time data exchange and automated workflows between your 3D Reality Model and Enterprise systems.
Shared Reality can be continuously extended beyond out-of-the-box features. The expert development services can build on top of that to meet a variety of client-specific cybersecurity or architecture challenges.
Key Capabilities:
- Custom System Connectors: Integrate with tailor-made systems, ensuring a perfect fit for your specific operational needs..
- Bidirectional Workflows: Enable customer-defined interactions, ensuring seamless data exchange and automation across platforms.
- Real-Time IIoT & Sensor Data: Retrieve and visualize live operational insights directly within Shared Reality for enhanced decision-making.
- Customize with ease: Adapt Shared Reality to your workflows with enterprise-specific specific configurations, ensuring the Shared Reality workspace evolves with your needs.
With custom connectors and expert-driven integration, Shared Reality becomes a fully adaptable solution. Transform Shared Reality into a fully interconnected workspace breaking down silos and ensuring a real-time, data-driven, and action-ready experience across all your Information Systems.
