Simplifying 3D surveying with OPTiM Geo Scan

「The company began offering Geo Scan Supreme for the smartphone 3D surveying app OPTiM Geo Scan. It enables data acquisition with millimeter-level accuracy compliant with paving work under the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's guidelines (Note 9), making it the world's first smartphone surveying app to do so (Note 8).」

「The OPTiM Geo Scan corporate license is a package that includes the OPTiM Geo Scan license, dedicated hardware for OPTiM Geo Scan Advance, a GNSS receiver (Note 9), an iPhone and other necessary equipment. In particular, Shimizu Corporation uses it extensively at all locations in Japan and at more than 23 sites overseas.」

「OPTiM Geo Scan received VE, the highest rating, under NETIS, the New Technology Information System provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.」

「In digital construction, the cumulative number of license contracts for the smartphone 3D surveying app OPTiM Geo Scan exceeded 1,000. The company believes this resulted from the app's broad use in civil-engineering surveying, surveys of disaster-affected sites and other situations, because OPTiM Geo Scan-related services can replace the expensive, specialized surveying equipment traditionally required with a smartphone and can also complete on a smartphone the creation of outputs needed for tasks such as drawing preparation and quantity calculations.」

「In northern Saga City, the company is providing the 3D surveying app Geo Scan and the terrestrial laser scanner OPTiM Geo Scan Advance, as well as dispatching personnel to support surveying, free of charge for disaster surveys being conducted as part of recovery efforts following damage caused by torrential rain. Geo Scan is used in areas where workers can enter, while OPTiM Geo Scan Advance is used to digitally scan affected areas such as cliffs and other locations that are difficult to access, contributing to safer disaster surveys with fewer personnel. In this way, OPTiM Geo Scan-related services are being used in a broader range of situations than before, and the number of licenses is growing steadily.」

「In digital construction, the company began offering OPTiM Geo Scan Advance, which enables easy, high-precision, long-distance 3D surveying using a smartphone. OPTiM Geo Scan Advance is a service that combines OPTiM Geo Scan with dedicated hardware fitted to a smartphone and equipped with an external LiDAR sensor capable of long-distance scanning (Note 2), allowing anyone to easily conduct long-distance surveying that was previously difficult.」

「The company also began offering the OPTiM Geo Scan platform, which enables users to perform many of the tasks required at construction sites, not only civil-engineering surveying, using a smartphone.」

「In addition, an upgraded version of OPTiM Geo Design, a free option for OPTiM Geo Scan, now allows users to easily create shape data for 2D drawings from 3D point-cloud data. By incorporating on-site needs in this way, the company aims to further increase the number of OPTiM Geo Scan licenses.」

「In the construction sector, the smartphone-based 3D surveying app OPTiM Geo Scan, which enables anyone to perform highly accurate 3D surveys in a short time, is steadily increasing its number of licenses. The company also began providing OPTiM Geo Design, an app for creating graphical data, as a free option for OPTiM Geo Scan.」

「In the construction sector, the smartphone-based 3D surveying app OPTiM Geo Scan became the first LiDAR surveying app in Japan using a mobile device (Note 3) to comply with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's revised Guidelines for As-Built Management Using 3D Measurement Technologies (Note 4). This confirms that the app meets the level of accuracy stipulated by the government for surveying, enabling OPTiM Geo Scan to be used for as-built surveys on public works projects and creating expectations for further adoption. We also began providing OPTiM Geo Design, an app for creating graphical data, as a free option for OPTiM Geo Scan.」

「We also began integrating OPTiM Geo Scan with Scan-X, a service of Scan-X Co., Ltd. that processes, analyzes and enables the sharing of 3D point-cloud data in the cloud. In addition, we began providing OPTiM Geo Point, a GNSS surveying and stakeout app that improves surveying accuracy, as a free option for OPTiM Geo Scan.」

「The product was also adopted for the digitization of disaster assessment conducted by the Kyushu Regional Development Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Kumamoto Prefecture for projects administered by the prefecture, in recognition of these capabilities.」

「We provided OPTiM Geo Scan for the FY2021 disaster preparedness exercise conducted by the Kyushu Regional Development Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. We also began integrating OPTiM Geo Scan with Scan-X Co., Ltd.'s Scan-X service, which processes, analyzes and enables the sharing of 3D point-cloud data in the cloud.」

「In the construction sector, we officially began providing OPTiM Land Scan under the new name OPTiM Geo Scan, an application that can acquire highly accurate 3D data simply by scanning survey targets such as earth structures with a smartphone or tablet equipped with a LiDAR sensor. OPTiM Geo Scan is an application capable of generating the highly accurate 3D data required at civil engineering sites by scanning survey targets such as earth structures with a smartphone or tablet. The application is intended for use at small-scale sites where drones and laser scanners are difficult to use, and can reduce surveying time by up to 60% compared with conventional total-station surveying. It can also reduce costs by more than 80% compared with existing 3D surveying using drones, laser scanners and similar equipment.」

「In the construction sector, we began providing OPTiM Land Scan, now OPTiM Geo Scan (Geo Scan), an application that can acquire highly accurate 3D data simply by scanning survey targets such as earth structures with a tablet equipped with a LiDAR sensor, the first such application in the world.」