Awarded to control room solutions company JumboVision International, the grant comes courtesy of the Accelerating Commercialisation element of the Australian Federal Government’s Entrepreneurs Programme.
“This grant is a validation of an innovative concept that we developed to counter design frustration,” said JumboVision general manager Lena Kimenkowski.
CADwalk was developed by JumboVision working with Professor Bruce Thomas at the Wearable Computing Laboratory, University of South Australia. It is designed to simplify design and layout planning processes for control rooms and other high-density technical environments. It applies software plus 2D and 3D stereoscopic projectors and motion-tracking cameras to create a 3D, walk-in, moveable design experience that allows clients to visualise and plot arrangements of furniture and technical equipment in real time.
Operating in a 180m2 floor space with a 10m wall screen, CADwalk projects desired room layouts onto the floor in 1:1 scale, assigning tracking devices to an unlimited number of objects such as desks, server racks or machinery.
