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Private innovation project / infrastructure concept

A connected highways command view for assets, safety, and construction progress.

Connected Highways was developed as a private innovation project to demonstrate how road corridors and civil infrastructure projects can be managed through one visual command surface: map context, assets, warnings, teams, progress, and decisions.

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Satellite map, route, asset, and incident layers

Safety warnings, inspections, collaboration, and phase planning

Designed for highways, civil infrastructure, and public-sector style workflows

Product walkthrough

One corridor, several operational viewpoints.

The prototype explores how the same road programme can be viewed through project delivery, live map context, asset status, safety, and phase planning rather than forcing every role into a generic dashboard.

Connected Highways corridor view of the M1 southbound route with worksite markers and smart cone placements over 3D terrain — The live corridor view: worksites, smart cones and lane closures placed on the real route rather than listed in a table.

Connected Highways global network view with the corridor overview panel over a 3D globe — The same corridor sits inside a global network view, so a programme can be read at site level or portfolio level.

Exported site progress and resource report showing corridor metrics, construction site progress and workforce inventory — One click exports the live view as a site progress and resource report, which is what most stakeholders actually circulate.

The World Twin platform applied to civil engineering: asset context, live operational views and decision support in one environment.

What this proves: stakeholders can test the operating model, data entities, and key decisions before expensive GIS licensing, data migration, and enterprise integration work begins.

The business context.

Infrastructure teams often have data, but not always a shared operational picture. The value of a digital twin is not the 3D label itself; it is the ability to make decisions from visible, joined-up context.

Problem

Project data lives in separate places

Maps, drawings, safety notes, traffic data, asset registers, photos, schedules, and reports can sit across different tools and teams.

Opportunity

Use the map as the operating layer

A map-led command view can give planners, project managers, inspectors, and leadership teams a shared interface for what is happening and what needs attention.

Outcome

A prototype that makes the platform tangible

The concept shows live project lists, filtered markups, satellite context, asset detail, warnings, collaboration, and a phase masterplanner in one coherent product story.

Why build this as a prototype first?

Infrastructure software can become expensive quickly because every organisation has different GIS sources, asset models, reporting standards, integrations, and approval workflows. A prototype is the sensible first step because it clarifies the actual operating model before committing to production integrations.

Risk

Avoid building the wrong command center

A visual sprint helps teams agree what the dashboard should do before engineering effort is spent on deep integration and data migration.

Alignment

Give non-technical stakeholders a shared view

Leadership, safety, delivery, and field teams can respond to the same screen and discuss what is useful, missing, or operationally unrealistic.

Data

Test the minimum useful data model

The prototype reveals which entities matter first: projects, corridors, assets, inspections, incidents, traffic layers, warnings, milestones, and responsible teams.

Budget

Stage the investment sensibly

A clickable or semi-functional prototype may start from the £2,800 to £9,000 range. Production work depends on GIS providers, security, data pipelines, reporting, and integration scope.

Delivery narrative

What the product needed to prove.

The product needed to prove that a highway corridor could be understood as a live operational system rather than a stack of documents and separate dashboards.

Start from project workflow

The left-side workflow keeps project selection, safety setup, active projects, and recent alerts in the same visual language as the map.

Make the map useful, not decorative

The map carries routes, filtered markups, incidents, inspections, assets, and context. It becomes the place where decisions are grounded.

Expose the asset and safety story

The right panel gives selected asset information, safety warnings, location details, and actions, making the concept feel operational rather than purely visual.

Connect planning to delivery

The phase masterplanner links dates, progress, workforce, and construction stages so buyers can see how planning and field visibility could connect.

Cost and delivery logic.

The biggest cost variables are integration depth, GIS licensing, asset schema complexity, realtime data, reporting requirements, security, and whether the tool is for a pilot, an internal team, or a full operational rollout.

Prototype

From £2,800 for a focused concept

Best for one corridor or use case, a mapped workflow, sample asset data, and a stakeholder-ready demo.

MVP

From £9,000 for pilot workflows

Best for a deployed dashboard with representative data, map layers, alert logic, reporting screens, and user feedback cycles.

Production

From £28,000 for integrated systems

Best for real GIS/data integrations, authentication, permissions, audit trails, reporting exports, ongoing support, and maintainable architecture.

Simam Digital's role.

Simam Digital can support the early product phase where teams need to convert infrastructure complexity into a product that can be reviewed, funded, piloted, and then developed responsibly.

Product

Problem-led scoping

Translate a vague idea into a clear product direction, user journey, feature set, and commercial demo story.

Design

Interactive UX architecture

Design dashboard, map, spatial, simulation, or 3D product flows that non-technical stakeholders can understand quickly.

Build

Full-stack prototype delivery

Create clickable or working prototypes with modern web, AI workflow, real-time 3D, API, and deployment foundations.

Growth

Demo and investment readiness

Package the work so it can support client workshops, funding conversations, sales demos, internal buy-in, or pilot proposals.

Case study decision record

The commercial case, in one view.

A concise record of what the project was intended to prove, the evidence available today, and the next responsible investment step.

Business challenge: Road-programme information is spread across GIS layers, asset records, safety systems, schedules, reports, and different delivery teams.
Why the project mattered: Without a shared operating picture, stakeholders spend time reconciling context before they can discuss risk, progress, ownership, or the next action.
What Simam Digital designed and built: A map-led command view joining corridors, projects, assets, incidents, safety warnings, collaboration, inspections, and phase planning in one product narrative.
Important product decisions: Use the route as the common reference; keep selected-asset evidence beside the map; connect programme phases to visible site and safety context.
Screenshots and video: Three product views and the linked walkthrough video demonstrate the command surface, asset workflow, and planning model with representative data.
Credible outcome: The prototype makes the operating model and minimum data entities tangible before GIS licensing, migration, security, and integration spend. No live-network KPI is claimed.
Recommended next engagement: Start with one corridor and one high-value workflow, validate it with delivery and safety users, then scope a pilot against real GIS and asset data.

Need to make an infrastructure platform visible before the full build?

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