Ideas for KAUST أفكار لكاوست
Shamal AI
A live 3D digital twin of KAUST + an AI vision layer — practical ideas for Operations & Maintenance and Industrial Security & Safety.
Ahmed Saleh · Shamal AI × KAUST Visualization Lab · 2026
The foundation التوأم الرقمي
KAUST, scanned into a living 3D twin
- Already built — drone-scanned into a navigable 3D model of the campus, on Desktop & in VR.
- Every asset, room & system pinned with its manuals, history, sensors and open work orders.
- Walk it before you enter it — brief a technician or a responder inside the model.
- One base that both Operations & Maintenance and Safety build on.

Real drone scan of KAUST → a navigable point-cloud twin
Operations & Maintenance التشغيل والصيانة
Inspect from the sky — let AI flag the defects
- Drones + cameras inspect roofs, façades, solar arrays and machinery.
- AI flags cracks, corrosion, thermal hotspots, leaks and missing parts.
- Reports in minutes, Arabic & English — and every finding is tracked in the twin.
- Safer — fewer people at height or in confined spaces.
AI-DETECTED
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
ANOMALY · INSPECT
GEMINI VISIONASSETS · 4FLAGGED · 1
Live Gemini detection over a demo rooftop — boxes are AI-placed on real objects, not drawn by hand.
Industrial Security & Safety الأمن الصناعي والسلامة
Turn every camera into a safety sensor
- PPE & unsafe-act alerts — no helmet, no vest, work at height without a harness.
- Intrusion, restricted-zone, crowd, fire/smoke, fallen-person — the events no one can watch 24/7.
- Drone patrol + Remote-ID for the large perimeter fixed cameras miss.
- A live 3D command view for response — shared with Maintenance.
AI-DETECTED
VEHICLE
VEHICLE
RESTRICTED ZONE
WORKER
WORKER
WORKER
WORKER
NO HELMET
GEMINI VISIONWORKERS · 6NO HELMET · 1
Live Gemini detection on a realistic CCTV-style frame — the AI flags every worker, the vehicles, the cordoned zone, and the one worker with no hard hat.
Our own AI model نموذجنا
Ask it to find anything — live
Our own vision model — no black box, no foreign API. Pick an image or upload your own, type what to find, and it detects it in seconds. The same engine reads your buildings, your cameras and your whole environment.
Analyzing — the first call can take a minute while the model wakes…
One platform · start small لنبدأ
One twin. One AI layer. Start with a pilot.
- Everything on your infrastructure — Arabic & English, a KAUST-based team, data stays in the Kingdom.
- A pilot in 2–4 weeks — one building twinned + AI on a few cameras + one VR module.
- Then scale — full facility, drone patrol, condition dashboard → a campus-wide command view.

One shared operations & command view — the twin + live AI in one place