PinMy × Saule · Local Digital Twin Field + model

The first step into your Local Digital Twin

Smart cities don't stall on technology — they stall on communication, and on getting started. Whether you're building a digital twin or just exploring the idea, it begins the same way: with real, current data from the ground — and people who can actually use it. PinMy lets city teams and residents capture what's happening on site — photo, video, voice and text — and pin it onto plans, site photos, maps and 3D/IFC models. The same pin works for a BIM coordinator, a field inspector or a resident. Saule brings the training and community adoption that turn a digital twin from an idea into something used.

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PinMy mobile app showing pins on a 3D IFC city model for digital twin field data capture

PinMy interactive map showing geolocated field pins across a city for a local digital twin

iPhone & iPad: iOS ↗
Phone & tablet: Android ↗
Any browser: Web ↗
Capture extension: Chrome ↗

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Pins on models and maps, from the phone.

Pinned on a 3D model

Two geolocated pins placed on a 3D IFC city model in PinMy

Comment thread with site photos opened from a pin on the 3D IFC model

Pinned on the map

Geolocated pins on an interactive city map in PinMy

Comment thread with site photos opened from a pin on the map

Start hereNew to digital twins?

What is a Local Digital Twin — and why start now?

A Local Digital Twin is a living digital model of your city — its buildings, streets and infrastructure — kept up to date with real-world data. It lets you see, test and decide before you build or spend: try out a development, check it against the rules, plan for flooding or ageing infrastructure, and bring residents into the process.

Why start now

Decide with evidence

test scenarios before committing budget

Coordinate everyone

teams and contractors working from one shared picture

Get ahead of risk

flooding, ageing assets, heritage, disasters

Bring residents in

visibility and trust

Strengthen funding bids

back proposals with real, current data

You don't have to start big

A full digital twin can feel far away — expensive, technical, years out. It doesn't have to start that way. The first step is simply capturing what's really happening on the ground, in a structured, visual form. That's PinMy. Begin with one district or one problem; the data you capture is exactly what any twin, BIM or GIS system will need later. You grow into the twin — you don't buy it all at once.

How a city takes the first step

Step 1

Start small

pick one district or one problem
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Step 2

Capture the ground-truth

field teams and residents pin photo, video and voice with PinMy, on web or phone — guests need no account or install
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Step 3

Feed your model

export the structured, geolocated data into a twin, BIM or GIS platform
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Step 4

Grow

add districts, layers and partners as the value proves out — Saule trains your teams and residents along the way

PinMy is the first step — the capture layer. It doesn't model, simulate or run rule-checks; it supplies the real, current data any twin will need.

001The gap

Twins model the city. Who keeps them connected to reality?

Local Digital Twin platforms are powerful: they model the built environment in 3D, check designs and detailed plans against the rules — greenery, building distances, heights, protected zones, safety — and run scenarios like sunlight, wind or flooding.

But every one of those checks assumes the model matches reality. Two gaps remain. First, fresh ground-truth — the actual condition of a site today — still arrives slowly, through specialists and manual reporting, so the twin drifts from what's really there. Second, the people who should benefit — municipal field teams, inspectors, residents — are often non-technical and never touch it.

That is the layer PinMy and Saule fill: a simple mobile bridge that captures the real, current state of the ground and brings non-technical people in — so the twin's models and checks run on reality, not assumptions.

As planned — the twin

Models the designed city and checks it against the rules: zoning, greenery, distances, heights, protected zones, safety; simulates sunlight, wind, flooding.

As-is — PinMy

Captures the actual city, today: geolocated photo, video and voice from the field — damage, progress, conditions, citizen input — feeding the twin so its checks reflect reality.

PinMy doesn't analyse — it supplies the ground-truth the analysis depends on.

002Capture + adoption

PinMy + Saule

PinMy: the capture layer

What's live today

Guest access — view and contribute with no account and no install
Mobile-first capture: photo, video, voice notes and text
Pins on 3D / IFC models — upload an IFC file and PinMy converts it to a lightweight 3D model that opens on any phone; pin defects, installs and observations directly on the model by location
Pins on PDFs, site photos and walkthrough videos
Interactive map across all projects — every pin geolocated and openable from anywhere
Multi-language voice-to-text transcription on every pin
Freehand sketching directly on plans and photos
OCR on site photos — read serial plates and labels (Premium)
Video annotation — pin comments on specific moments (Premium)
Threaded discussion on every pin

On our roadmap

Full offline mode
Two-way issue interoperability with BIM coordination tools

Saule: the adoption layer

Saule SIA is a Baltic Sea Region partner (founded 2022) working with municipalities, NGOs, educational institutions and innovation-driven partners. A digital twin only delivers value when the people who depend on it are trained to use it and trust it — that is Saule's role in the consortium.

What Saule brings

Facilitation and change management for city teams
Training and onboarding of non-technical users
Community engagement and participation workflows
A standardized, repeatable onboarding process per city use case

How a rollout works

Assess — map the city's use case, stakeholders and current workflow
Onboard — train field teams and citizens on PinMy, hands-on
Sustain — hand over a repeatable process the city owns after the project

003How it fits

PinMy doesn't replace the twin — it feeds it

PinMy sits at the very start of the data lifecycle — the moment a real-world observation is made. It captures that input in a structured, geolocated, annotated form, ready to flow into the digital twin platform. The twin does the modelling and analysis; PinMy makes sure it is working with real, current, human-verified input — and that the people on the ground can contribute without friction. PinMy is platform-agnostic: it complements a digital-twin, BIM or GIS stack rather than competing with it.

Step 1

Field & Community

teams · inspectors · residents
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Step 2

PinMy capture

photo · video · voice · text — pinned to plans, photos, maps & 3D/IFC
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Step 3

Structured, geolocated data

+ guest links
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Step 4

Digital Twin platform

modelling · simulation
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Step 5

Planning & decisions

PinMy is the start of the data lifecycle. The twin is where it's analysed.

004Use cases

Built for real cities

A BIM-advanced planning city

For a city already running BIM-based planning and automated rule-checks, PinMy adds the field-verification layer: as-built checks, site observations and citizen input pinned onto plans, the city map and IFC models — on any phone. It confirms whether what's on site matches what the twin assumes, and feeds the planning workflow.

Value: field reality is checked against the plan early, before issues become costly.

Strongest fit

A reconstruction & resilience context

Where open data is scarce and risk is high — earthquake-affected districts, heritage sites under threat, flood-prone areas — PinMy becomes a rapid ground-truth tool. Field teams document damage, building and heritage-site condition, reconstruction progress and road and infrastructure status with geolocated photo, video and voice pins — building the dataset the twin needs from the ground up. Our team is Ukrainian, so we understand the reconstruction context directly.

Value: a fast, low-cost way to document risk, damage and heritage condition — and the evidence to act and apply for funding.

A first-timer city

Not sure where to begin? Start by mapping one concern — flood-prone streets, ageing buildings, a heritage quarter — with geolocated pins anyone can add.

Value: a visible, shareable first result in weeks, not years.

005Adoption

Why adoption decides success

Technology fails in the field when no one is trained to use it or trusts it. Saule's role in the consortium is exactly this: facilitation, education in emerging technologies, and community rollout. PinMy is the tool; Saule makes sure city staff and residents actually adopt it — designing a standardized onboarding process adaptable to each city's use case.

006Partner

About Saule

“From purposeful ideas to resilient realities.”

A Baltic Sea Region partner (founded 2022) working with municipalities, NGOs, educational institutions and innovation-driven partners. Saule brings entrepreneurial education, AI literacy and digital-skills training, plus the facilitation and community engagement that turn new technology into real adoption.

Facilitation & change managementAI literacy & digital skillsEntrepreneurial educationCommunity engagement

007Standards

Standards & interoperability

Capability	Status
2D formats (PDF, site photos)	Live
Geolocated pins — photo / video / voice / text	Live
3D / IFC model support (auto-converted, mobile)	Live
Interactive map across projects	Live
Multi-language voice-to-text transcription	Live
Freehand sketching on plans	Live
OCR on site photos	Live Premium
Video annotation	Live Premium
Guest access (view & contribute, no account)	Live
Data export / portability (no vendor lock-in)	Live
Poor-signal site use	Roadmap
Two-way issue interoperability with BIM coordination tools	Roadmap
GDPR / EU-based data handling	Yes