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Engineering the Digital Thread

Lem Apperson

Specializing in real-time IoT visualization, geospatial digital twins, and high-performance simulation architecture.

500,000+ Technical Reads

Featured Systems

Smart Building Dashboard

IoT Operational Twin: Smart Building

A secure, real-time data pipeline integrating cloud IoT telemetry with a modular 3D facility dashboard for mission-critical monitoring.

Unity 6 (URP) C# / .NET MQTT (HiveMQ) Python (SmartBuildSim) Synty Polygon Assets
Technical Focus: Resolved non-thread-safe engine constraints by leveraging Unity 6 Awaitables for asynchronous MQTT ingestion[cite: 62]. Developed a manual override situational awareness system to manage 42 zone-specific camera feeds during critical sensor alerts.

Norfolk Sea Level Rise Twin

Geospatial visualization of intermediate-high sea level rise scenarios (2026–2100) using high-fidelity USGS LiDAR data.

USGS LiDAR NOAA Projections Blender Displacement GIS Analysis
Key Achievement: Identified and visualized non-contiguous inundation zones—revealing flood risks in inland depressions that are invisible on traditional 2D shoreline maps.

Core Expertise

Asynchronous Systems

  • Unity 6 Awaitables [cite: 62]
  • MQTT Cloud Integration
  • Thread Synchronization
  • JSON Telemetry Ingestion

Geospatial / 3D

  • LiDAR DEM Processing
  • Blender Asset Pipelines
  • URP Graphics Optimization
  • World-Space UI Design

Infrastructure

  • Python Simulation (venv)
  • Configuration-as-Code
  • M4 Apple Silicon Opt.
  • Technical Writing