00:00 Wide
of Arch-OS system
Wide
of Safe-Aim simulator
Over
shoulder shot – Mike Phillips at computer
c.u.
Arch-OS computer screen
Wide
Mike Phillips and computer
“Safe
Aim Ltd” logo on screen - cut to action sequence
Wide
of Bournemouth University exterior
c.u.
Operator at Safe Aim simulator
Guide Voice: A building management system and a
military training aid – two concepts that would seem to have
little in common. But Arch-OS, an 'Operating System' for
contemporary architecture created by researchers at the University
of Plymouth, and Safe Aim’s simulated training system for
military use, developed with help from the neighbouring Bournemouth
University, are both examples of advanced use of Smart
Technology.
00:23 SOT: Mike Phillips, Director of the
Institute of Digital Art & Technology (IDAT), University of
Plymouth –“The idea of a smart system is
that it has imbedded in it, or has embedded in a traditional system
like a car or any kind of mechanical process, a level of
intelligence which allows it to have some responsive ability to its
environment or indeed to its own mechanism so a system which knows
when it’s broken down is said to be
‘smart’.”
00:49 Tilt
down exterior of Portland Square Building
c.u.
Portland Square sign
Pull
back from computer screen
Wide
of building foyer
Guide Voice: The University of Plymouth’s
centre of research for interactive digital media, IDAT, is based in
the University’s Portland Square Building, where they have
developed the Arch-OS system both to manage the building’s
systems and to encourage those working in the building to inter-act
more closely with their surroundings.
01:06 SOT: Mike Phillips –
“What our system does is that it tries to make the
inhabitants of the building a little bit more intelligent by
showing them the systems that they’re interacting with and in
some way giving them a responsibility or a sense of responsibility
on all their impact on all of the aspects of the building that they
might not be too familiar with. So for instance energy consumption,
water consumption, what happens to the building when they’re
not actually in it, what happens to the building when there’s
a lot of people in it and they’re just focused on their
single activity.”
01:38 Wide
– operator at screen. Crosses to other computer
Wide
– 2 researchers at computer screens
Over
shoulder shot; Mike Phillips at computer
c.u.
Arch-OS screens
Screen
showing people flow in building
Student
entering lift
c.u.
pressing “Random” button
Wide
– student in lift, door closing
Researcher
at computer terminal
Guide Voice: The Arch-OS system is able to
reveal the building in a particularly intelligent way, it monitors
the energy system, exposing energy efficiencies, as well as tapping
into the computer and communications networks and the environmental
conditions. But more than this, Arch-OS can use the data it gathers
to create interactive experiences within the building – such
as creating music based on the patterns of human movement through
the public areas. It even has a “Random” lift button,
to encourage occupants to experience other floors to those they
would visit as part of their usual routine.
So are smart systems the way forward for building
management?
02:13 SOT: Mike Phillips
- “Arch-OS I think is very
important as a future technology because it actually involves
people in the solution. It’s not just about slapping on
technological solutions, it’s about getting people to take
responsibility for their behaviour and that I think is something
that every system has to deal with as a future
development.”
02:33 Wide
– Safe Aim Ltd office and simulator
c.u.
on screen action
Exterior,
Safe Aim, Albert Hogg and Prof. Zhang and Dr. Xu
Push
in to Dr Guohe Xu inside cut down Tank turret
Researcher
checks turret controls
Guide Voice: Clearly with an eye on future
development, Safe Aim, also based in the South West of England, has
been creating military training aids for a number of years. Through
a government initiative known as the Knowledge Transfer Partnership
they’ve been able to call on smart technology expertise from
Bournemouth University to help develop their Tank Gunnery
simulator. Studies have shown that suitable simulator training for
soldiers in Armoured Fighting Vehicles could save the UK taxpayer
up to 1.5 million pounds a year, as well as significantly reducing
the environmental impact of training with live ammunition.
03:06 SOT: Albert Hogg, Co-Director,
Safe Aim Ltd., - “We’ve now got on board
the necessary expertise to develop commercial off the shelf systems
for want of a better word, in other words low level PCs and make
them compete in a market that historically has used quite high end
simulation systems and the university was able to bridge that gap
between what the technology was capable of doing at that high level
and what could it really do with the correct expertise imported in
a low based system”.
03:47 Wide
of Safe Aim office interior
Wide
– operator building new course information
c.u.
on screen data
c.u.
operators face
c.u.
Tank model on screen
c.u.
on screen action with voice commands
Guide Voice: The simulator may look like a
glorified video arcade game, but the similarity is misleading. The
visual simulator has obvious connections to gaming but it is the
feedback element that makes this training aid so valuable. The
courses are devised with specific aims and students progress
through training levels as they achieve their targeted grades. This
makes accurate feedback a priority and this is where a smart system
is so important.
04:11 SOT: Professor Jian Zhang, Media
School, Bournemouth University – “Because
it is for training for a real offensive then you have to do all the
real calculations very, very accurately. For example, one of the
things would be to calculate a blast and its effects, the
trajectory of the shell for example and it just had to be very
accurate whereas for a game you don’t really care that much
because everything’s for fun rather than for training; and
the trainee has to gain expertise and skills from this training,
therefore accuracy is the key difference.”
04:45 Wide
over shoulder of operator building simulator course
c.u.
Arch-OS screen
Guide Voice: As these projects illustrate,
there is a clear technological message – the future is
Smart!
04:53
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