3D Photo Survey
Get the digital models of your networks directly with your smartphone.
With the 3D Photo Survey app, you can easily obtain the 3D model and orthophotos of your network facilities using only the images captured with your smartphone! The processed models are high-fidelity, centimetre-accurate, already georeferenced and oriented, ready for multiple uses.
Thanks to the smartphone equipped with the precision GPS, the 3D model of the excavation and underground utilities can be easily obtained. It will be enough to “scan” the excavation with the smartphone equipped with the 3D Photo Survey.
With 3D Photo Survey you will be able to conduct network facility surveys without leaving the office. How? 3D models of underground utilities acquired by 3D Photo Survey during excavation and laying are automatically available in the company’s GIS, allowing the back office to operate autonomously, without sending operators to the site.
With 3D Photo Survey, using the smartphone, holograms of network infrastructure are superimposed in augmented reality on the road surface, with centimetre accuracy. When the excavation is closed, during surveys, future excavations and interventions, on-site personnel will be able to relocalise in augmented reality, with accuracy, the underground utilities, and intervene at a glance, reducing the risk of damage to people and infrastructure. In addition, superimposed 3D models can also show network interferences, making interventions even safer.
This functionality is under development. It is scheduled for release in the second half of 2024.
The 3D models acquired through 3D Photo Survey are accurate, high- fidelity, georeferenced and oriented, and are a valuable resource to better perform monitoring, simulation and optimisation activities of network infrastructure.
Once technicians have surveyed the underground utilities and marked the traces with spray, the area of interest can be “scanned” with a smartphone. On the basis of this scan, the system will automatically generate the 3D model of the road surface and also the related very high detail “orthophotos” showing the traces made with the spray. The orthophotos thus processed will be available in the Arcoda Work web portal, and can be exploited as a visual reference to accurately map the networks.
Thanks to the images acquired with 3D Photo Survey, ‘orthophotos’ are automatically generated at such a high detail that they can be used as a reference for centimetre-precise measurements. From the comfort of your desk, you can take measurements and trace routes using the orthophotos generated by the system as a reference.
Avoid on-site measurements! With 3D Photo Survey you scan the site of interest with your smartphone and easily obtain the precise and realistic 3D model of the road surface, including the trace made with the spray during the subsurface survey. By importing the model into a CAD, you can use it as a reference to precisely draw digital maps showing the traces made on the asphalt, making it easier for those who will be in charge of the excavations. The acquisition of the 3D model is very simple and requires no special training or technical knowledge. It can therefore also be carried out by site construction staff!
3D Photo Survey makes it possible to survey the temporary and final rehabilitation directly with a smartphone, without taking on-site measurements. Once the survey has been carried out, thanks to the digital models acquired and provided in the system, the back office can carry out measurements of the rehabilitated areas autonomously.