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from those sensors – be able to pick up a building , look at its carbon footprint , look at its energy management , and control all of that from a virtual reality environment ,” he says .
Asset management tracking can also benefit significantly from the digital backbone , especially over such an extensive site – RAF Leeming covers 1,260 acres . This still involves “ running around the base with a clipboard and pen ”. Geotagging all of those generators allows the base to operate more efficiently and effectively .
COVID-19 naturally accelerated the digital transformation agenda , and also provided an opportunity to take proactive ownership of the outcome . Crawford says they knew they were going to reset to something different and decided to determine that for themselves .
The way they did that was with a project called Hacking for Recovery – a series of sprints right across the station that brought everybody in to see what ‘ good ’ looked like for Leeming . This forced everyone to challenge some of the previous policy demands and rules and look at a new way of working that exploits technology to deliver better results for the station .
Of course , being an RAF base , there is a continuous output – you can ’ t just have everyone experimenting and innovating , which is why a separate team has been assembled to do just that , housed in a
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