ASIST.

ASIST is one of the product ideas to come out of the company’s Big Ideas innovation competition in 2014. Designed by Andrew Bruce and further documented by Duan Zhao, ASIST, or asset history in real time aims to simplify the task of translating asset data such as the condition of roads and buildings into a comprehendible form. A vast amount of data is gathered and stored to describe these assets, and currently, this data is simply given to the user in tabular form. Although descriptive, this representation of data requires a significant understanding of the domain and is overall difficult and time consuming to analyse.

This has lead to the idea of an augmented reality visualisation of the data. Development of ASIST will transform this data into an intuitively recognisable representation, requiring little specialised knowledge of the domain, and increasing both productivity and user tolerance and acceptance of the system