Steel Plant Digital Twin
A real-time 3D digital twin of Iran’s largest steel producer, connected to live sensors with instant alerts.
Year: 2023–2024We directed the technical and creative work for a 3D monitoring platform at Hormozgan Steel, together with IRISA and Ideh Bonyan Vira. Plant managers watch live sensor data on an interactive 3D plant and receive alerts the moment something changes. With no blueprints available for security reasons, the plant was modeled from photos and research. Draco compression, KTX2 textures, mesh merging, a single texture atlas and LOD keep this very detailed model at 60 FPS.
Technology
- Three.js
- React
- Blender
- Draco
- KTX2
Our team’s part
- Technical direction
- Three.js development
- 3D modeling
Client
- Hormozgan Steel (HOSCO) · IRISA
Modeling without blueprints
Research, photos and many iterations turned vague references into an accurate 3D plant.
Performance at scale
Modeling and web work were planned together so the highly detailed plant stays smooth.
Casting section
The casting section, where molten material becomes iron units, is animated in a later phase.
DRI unit with data points
Access points on the direct reduced iron unit open details and data for each section.
Fast delivery
This 3D view was produced in a very short time without precise reference material.