Model of the Wastewater Treatment Plant
The installation "Model of the Wastewater Treatment Plant" is an automated model placed on a turntable with an augmented reality.
Complete installation in the museum
Digital twin is precisely synchronized with any movement of the model placed on the turntable. Interacting with an interface, visitors can rotate the model and its digital twin allows to examine the wastewater treatment facilities more closely and to find out how they operate – it literally allows you to take a look behind the scenes.
Concept visualization
The semicircular surface behind the model helps to deliver information not only to visitors directly interacting with the screen, but also to those who standing at some distance away. High-resolution projection demonstrates process chains of water treatment and waste disposal.
User interface visualization
PITCH Engineering Department has carried out the complete cycle of engineering, including the structural design, mechanical system for the turntable, selection and integration of multimedia solutions, industrial product design, development of the automatic control system and controlling program, production control, assembly and commissioning of the installation in the museum.
3D СAD model
Fragments of project documentation
Manafacturing and assembly stages
The rotation system is based on a Beckhoff AM8553 synchronous servomotor controlled by an AX5106 inverter and a WITTENSTEIN alpha epicyclic gearbox. The installation logic is controlled by an embedded BECKHOFF industrial computer. The rendering of the model's position in the augmented reality application is done in real time. Data is exchanged with the Unity application via the PUP9000 (PitchUniversalProtocol) protocol based on UDP transport.
Electric drive system and control cabinet
The video signal source for the Panasonic PT-RCQ80LBE projector is an embedded industrial computer iBase SI-324. The video signal is transmitted via a hybrid copper & fiber cable OPTICIS. A ScreenBerry 2.0 media server is used as a software solution. The acoustic design of the installation involves the Genelec 4020C active loudspeaker system.
User Interface running
The augmented reality application is run on a second embedded industrial computer iBase SI-324. The iiyama TF2738MSC touchscreen is used as the control panel.
Wastewater treatment plant model on the turntable
The operation of the installation is fully automated, as it is integrated with the museum's system of control and monitoring (SUMO). MQTT is used as a universal transport protocol for data exchange between the installation and the central control system, with the client implemented in a TwinCAT3 software controller.
Credits
Made in PITCH
Client: Sila Sveta
Head of development: Vladimir Makhnov
Technical management: Danil Gerasimenko
Multimedia and electrical engineer: Pavel Bezrodniy
Mechanical engineer: Anatoly Krikunov
Process engineer: Vasily Kuraev
*Special thanks go to Alyona Kharitonova who was in charge of the content and visitor experience and helped to describe the ideas behind our technical solutions.
