The iLima AI Digital Platform
The iLima Digital Foundary AI digital platform is designed to consult with local people and local businesses as equal partners and co-creators of their own communities. By encouraging engagement and design input, data-driven decision-making will drive greater efficiencies in the plan, design, build, and operate operation stages of the built environment. Generative design can provide many options for diverse communities and can adapt to their needs and changes over time.
The iLima Sustainable Village Economy Development Framework harnesses Big Data, AI, Machine Learning and platform technologies to significantly reduce risk, cost, time while greatly increasing quality, sustainability and transparency.
ACIP - Managing digital and physical data
The iLima Africa Construction Innovation Platform (ACIP) is a distributed architecture data storage and processing platform that manages the data (digital and physical) collected and disseminated for the end-to-end construction process. ACIP is an integrated family of databases and processing resources, configured as a hybrid platform to support both the transactional and the developmental activities.
PLAN
STEP 1
DESIGN
STEP 2
BUILD
STEP 3
OPERATE
STEP 4
Other products
Community as a Product - CaaP
Community as a Product – CaaP
CaaP is a computational tool that analyzes a wide array of data to automatically create optimized buildings and neighborhood layouts. It addresses regulatory concerns, street layouts, block orientations, real estate, weather, building height, and “quality of life” measures.
iLima Affordable Sustainable Village Economy Framework
Create optimised buildings and neighbourhood layouts with CaaP
Building as a Product - BaaP
Building as a Product – BaaP
Building as a Product (BaaP) is a configurator that offers developers the tools needed to plan, design, build and operate affordable housing at a fraction of the cost and time. Affordable housing and community buildings are configured and constructed with an easy to use interface. This closed loop system links the digital world to the physical world throughout the building lifecycle.
Choose or input building configuration options specified to community requirements, regulatory requirements, position and type of building, infrastructure, facades, roofs, kitchens and bathrooms. Visualise 3D models within the interface and keep up to date with real time design changes, specifications and updates.
Smart Building Advisor - SBA
The Smart Building Advisor is accessible on multiple platforms and devices
Smart Building Advisor – SBA
The iLima Smart Building Advisor (SBA) uses the aggregated intelligence of the ACIP platform to support the user with instructions and advice through the Smart Building Advisor User Interface. User interaction helps the system constantly learn and improve. The Smart Building Advisor is available on multiple platforms and devices.
The Integrator for Community Living
- Infrastructure
- Interconnectivity
- Village Economy
- Self-sustainable village or township economy
The township or village economy defined
The “township economy” generally refers to all the economic activities occurring in formally promulgated urban areas known as townships. This encompasses the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods and services. It is a spatial concept, unlike that of the informal economy, which refers to unregulated economic activities irrespective of their location.
Source: Strengthening Township Economies in South Africa: the Case for Better Regulation and Policy Innovation by Andreas Scheba & Ivan Nicholas Turok