The Virtual Equipment House
Clients & Partners: Westerberg & Driesel
The Virtual Equipment House
Revolutionizing Smart Construction Equipment Management to Unlock Sustainability, Efficiency, and Profitability
Combining Westerberg's expertise in durable lithium batteries and IoT Smart Metering with Driesel's expansion into sustainable and smart construction equipment, The Virtual Equipment House is a platform of digital twins that opens horizons on managing electrified construction equipment. Making the intangible qualities of electricity usage and sustainability tangible.
With a vision for a whole new class of electrified equipment in the construction industry, this project places a significant emphasis on data utilization, user needs, and automation to achieve intelligent maintenance systems, real-time monitoring, diagnostics, and predictive analytics, while optimizing performance and utilization through data-driven insights.
The platform's elements are meticulously designed. Employing a user experience design approach and methodologies the project outlines functional requirements to prioritize construction professionals to effortlessly manage and monitor equipment. The information experience was architected, wireframed, and tested.
By translating Westerberg's battery expertise into the digital realm, this project carefully considers the technical skills and resources required for platform actualization, backcasting was used to define the roadmap and necessary capacities to go from vision and concept to implementation.