Mixed Reality Support for Bridge Inspectors

Bridge inspectors work for the safety of our infrastructure and mobility. In regular intervals, they conduct structural inspections - a manual task with a long-lasting and firmly normed analogue tradition. We propose a mixed analogue and digital workflow that includes Mixed Reality views that can be ready-to-hand for bridge inspectors during their work at and in a bridge. Our presented demonstrator was iteratively designed in a collaborative research project and turned into a tablet-based application to digitally support that work. It employs BIM data that contains 3D geometry-data and additional data about the structure, such as previous damage reports.