Operations · Maintenance · Safety التشغيل والصيانة · السلامة
One Twin.
Two Ideas.
A live 3D digital twin of KAUST + an AI vision layer — one intelligence platform for Operations & Maintenance and for Industrial Security & Safety.
Ahmed Saleh · KAUST Visualization Lab & Shamal AI · 2026
O&M · Asset twin التوأم الرقمي
An asset brain you can walk through
- Click any asset → its history, manuals, sensor data and open work orders.
- Navigable in 3D & VR — brief a new technician on a plant room before they ever enter it.
- Stays current — reality-capture scans keep the as-built twin accurate.
- Built on the KVL platform — already running; applied to your buildings & plants.
ASSETS TAGGED
PUMP
PUMP
VALVE
VALVE
VALVE
GEMINI VISIONASSETS TAGGED · 5→ TWIN PINS
Each asset the AI finds becomes a pin in the twin — with its manuals, history & sensors.
O&M · AI inspection فحص بالذكاء الاصطناعي
Inspect from the sky and the camera — let AI flag the defects
- Drone + fixed-camera inspection of roofs, façades, solar arrays and machinery.
- Auto-detect cracks, corrosion, thermal hotspots, leaks and missing parts.
- Reports in minutes — Arabic & English, generated from the findings.
- Safer — fewer people at height or in confined spaces; findings tracked over time in the twin.
AI-DETECTED
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
HVAC UNIT
ANOMALY · INSPECT
GEMINI VISIONASSETS · 4FLAGGED · 1
Live Gemini detection over an AI-generated demo rooftop — boxes are AI-placed on real objects, not drawn by hand.
Safety · AI cameras ذكاء على الكاميرات
Turn every camera into a safety sensor
- PPE & unsafe-act alerts — no helmet, no vest, working at height without a harness.
- Intrusion & restricted-zone — someone in an exclusion zone during crane or hot work.
- Crowd, fire/smoke, fallen-person — the events people can't watch 24/7.
- Drone patrol + Remote-ID for the perimeter — the Shamal drone-monitor dashboard.
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.
Safety · Response الاستجابة للطوارئ
When seconds matter — command in 3D
- Live feeds pinned in the twin — cameras, sensors and drone view in one 3D picture.
- Evacuation routes & muster points mapped; nearest exits by location.
- Reconstruct incidents in 3D for root-cause investigation and training.
- One command view for the security operations centre — shared with O&M.
RESPONSE LAYER
CAM 12
CAM 07
HAZARD
MUSTER
EXIT
Live feeds, hazards & muster points pinned in the 3D twin
Illustrative response layer over an AI-generated campus scene.
Also · Campus environment البيئة
The same AI reads your whole campus environment
- Standing water — the number-one mosquito-breeding and health risk on a hot campus.
- Blocked drainage & wet zones — caught before they undermine roads and foundations.
- Waste, dumping & overgrowth — flagged and risk-scored across the grounds.
- One flight → a campus risk map — feeding both Maintenance and Safety.
From our drone environmental-monitoring work — the same detection engine, pointed at your grounds.
One frame → water, waste, drainage & vegetation, each risk-scored