CEBOW: A Cloud-Edge-Browser Online Web3D approach for visualizing large BIM scenes

With the mobile technology continues to grow and evolve, the technology of presenting building information modeling (BIM) with an online platform has become an important application in the fields of civil engineering, architecture, and computer visualization. However, due to network bandwidth and browser performance limitations, it was difficult to display large-scale BIM scenes in a flawless manner on mobile browsers. CEBOW, a Cloud-Edge-Browser Online architecture for visualizing BIM components with online solutions, is proposed in this article. The method combines transmission scheduling, cache management, and optimal initial loading into a single system architecture. For network transmission testing, BIM scenes are used, and the results show that our method effectively reduces scene loading time and networking delay while improving the visualization effect of large-scale scenes.