Engineering software firm Bentley Systems has acquired IoT software specialists sensemetrics and Vista Data Vision. The acquisitions will add real-time IoT sensor data to the Bentley iTwin platform.

Users of sensemetrics and Vista Data Vision software include geotechnical engineering firms, land surveyors, and civil and structural engineering firms, as well as asset owner-operators in mining, transportation, and utilities.

Applications include geological, geotechnical, structural, and environmental monitoring including in heavy civil construction, mines, tunnels, dams, and for water resources.

The sensemetrics platform is used for real-time safety and risk monitoring in infrastructure, mining, and construction activities including to measure and visualise civil structural movement, for condition assessment, and to help detect and prevent damage.

Vista Data Vision software is used in analysing and managing project data from real-world engineering projects that require real-time or near real-time observations and can be configured by nontechnical users.

Their respective capabilities will be integrated with the Bentley iTwin platform to enable iTwin users to incorporate data streams from hundreds of sensor types into their own applications. This will include access to a broader IoT ecosystem including data analytics and visualisation through Microsoft’s Azure IoT, Siemens’ MindSphere, and NVIDIA’s Omniverse. 

Bentley Systems CTO Keith Bentley said, “It is exciting to now be able to close the adoption gap between critical infrastructure and IoT technologies by integrating these acquisitions through our iTwin platform to enable living digital twins. We are very pleased to welcome our new colleagues who (from Vista Data Vision) originated and have proven the potential of infrastructure IoT, and who (from sensemetrics) have propagated the standardised cloud platform to now institutionalise it. They have all led the way, and the learning curve, towards this ultimate convergence of ET, OT, and IT, advancing infrastructure engineering and the environment for everyone.”

“We are thrilled to join the Bentley family and look forward to expanding the scope and reach of infrastructure instrumentation projects throughout the world,” said Thorarinn Andresson, CEO of Vista Data Vision. “Combining the capabilities of Vista Data Vision with sensemetrics, through the Bentley iTwin platform, will greatly accelerate our collective users’ benefits from infrastructure digital twins.”

“Combining our technology strengths with Vista Data Vision, and within Bentley Systems as the infrastructure engineering software company, brings closer our goal to effortlessly connect decision makers with condition monitoring data and insights that are critical to the safe and efficient operation of their assets,” said Cory Baldwin, CEO of sensemetrics. “The synergies enabled by extending infrastructure digital twins through infrastructure IoT are compelling, and we are excited to play a pivotal role in this advancement.”