Capture.
One person, one smartphone, about ten minutes per trench.
No surveyor. No special hardware. No weeks of drawing work.
Your crew films the open trench. Within 72 hours you have the 3D model, the drawings and the quantities.
Backed by
Inception Program
- Founders of
Recognize.
Every pipe found and labeled: type, diameter, material, position. Plus what the crew said on site.
Plan.
The 3D record of the trench, as point cloud, mesh and BIM model (IFC), becomes your as-built plan.
Integrate.
Contractors get quantities, invoicing data, as-built drawings and isometrics. Utilities get GIS-ready network data and verified quantities.
The problem
The maps went digital. Measuring what lies where still happens by hand.
For contractors
- Measuring isn't done by the crew on the ground, so every step means coordination and another site visit.
- Invoicing waits months for documentation, and cash flow suffers.
- Manual measurements don't hold up in disputes, so payments get cut.
For utilities
- Every handoff between contractor, surveyor and engineering office adds cost and errors.
- As-built plans arrive months late, so your GIS is never up to date.
- Once the trench is closed, whatever wasn't measured is lost for decades.
What measuring looks like today
GNSS rover
Total station
Measuring wheel
Folding rule
Tape
Laser meter
The solution
A phone video delivers survey-grade 3D records.
Capture, recognize, plan, integrate: one person films the trench, sizeless does the rest.
- Capture
One person, one smartphone, about ten minutes per trench.
- Recognize
Every pipe found and labeled: type, diameter, material, position. Plus what the crew said on site.
- Plan
The 3D record of the trench, as point cloud, mesh and BIM model (IFC), becomes your as-built plan.
- Integrate
Contractors get quantities, invoicing data, as-built drawings and isometrics. Utilities get GIS-ready network data and verified quantities.
- 72 h
- from scan to results
- 1 visit
- one site visit instead of many
- 7 mm
- deviation from a professional survey
Technology
Built on a decade of robotics research and physics.
- Our own SLAM
Survey-grade 3D from a single phone video, no extra hardware.
3D reconstruction - Semantic layer
Recognizes type, material and connections of every pipe.
Recognition - Conversational AI
What the crew says while filming is captured in the scan.
Context
Prantl Roppen
Kliewe
Pfaffinger
FUG Fernwärme Ulm
Hamburger Energiewerke
IEP Innovative Energie Pullach
Geothermie Unterhaching
