Laser Scanning Application

Slacks, deformations, or cable faults develop on the power lines. Hundreds of kilometers of wires need to be quickly inspected to rectify the problem.

Employees of municipal and industrial enterprises lack specialists and equipment. Hiring industrial surveyors is expensive and time-consuming.

Rains, hail, storms, and other factors damage solar panels. Even 1-2% of “hot spots” per hundred or a thousand diodes at increased power can lead to high costs over time.

Both private and industrial power plants are expensive and time-consuming to check whenever damage is suspected.

Wind turbines require regular preventive maintenance to ensure maximum performance and extend their service life. If faults occur, they should be detected and corrected as soon as possible.

Servicing in a conventional way is difficult, dangerous, time-consuming, and requires specialists, who will still come up with inefficient results.

Malfunctions in power transmission lines, especially in the utility and industrial sectors, cause work stoppages and substantial financial losses. Finding faults takes a long time, and delaying them can aggravate the problem and lead to accidents.

Even knowing the localization area of the problem, workers would need more time only to detect the defect, not to mention fixing it.

The measurement of bulk materials, especially in the industrial, mining, or construction sector, takes a lot of time, energy, and money. Miscalculations in the measurement of large volumes, even by a couple of percent converted into absolute figures, can make up to several tens of tons.

To accurately measure the volume of bulk materials using conventional methods, they must have a correct geometric shape – a cube or cone. But that never happens.

All data about the building and its condition should be kept in a single place, be available to investors, contractors, inspection bodies, and residents. This applies to all stages  of the facility’s life cycle, from design and construction to maintenance and renovation.

The preparation of the project documentation usually takes a long time. At the design stage, errors that are difficult to detect before construction occur.

It happens that the administrative documentation on the facility hasn’t been produced, has been fully or partially lost, became impracticable, or requires an update. The absence of administrative documentation prevents the building from being put into operation.

It may be necessary not only to restore documentation but also to check engineering network sections, structures, and work performed for compliance with technical regulations.

In the process of construction, it is necessary to check for defects, inconsistencies, and other deviations from the plan, accurately calculate the perimeters of walls, floor area, consumption of cement, cable, and other materials.

Monitoring with a coordinate measuring machine requires contact with the measured object. Besides, the accuracy of such measurements is low.

The topographic survey, in a conventional way, takes a long time, does not guarantee the most accurate measurements of the landscape, which subsequently affects the stages and results of the construction. 

Conventional surveying requires a lot of time, more specialists, and still does not produce as accurately as a laser.

On an industrial scale, the drawing of pipelines plays a fundamental role, because with its help it is possible to calculate the number of materials and make a communication plan in time. The more complete the data is, the more accurate the drawing.

Conventional methods do not guarantee sufficiently-detailed and accurate data collection and tend to be time-consuming.

In the production sector, especially on the large scale, there are often situations where modeling may be required for subsequent reconstruction. For example, a part of professional equipment that has no analog in the world goes out of order.

It is not an option for engineers to repair equipment when there is no size of parts or schemes left.

The CAD documentation should be as exact and detailed as possible to accelerate works on the manufacture and to avoid the overspending of means.

Producing the most accurate drawings containing the smallest details in a conventional method is tedious and difficult.

To analyze and adjust elevation points, to make measurements and calculations, you would need a precise and detailed terrain model. With the help of conventional methods, the model is created for quite a long time, which can be critical for production.

Remote sensing, topography, cartometry-based modeling, and other measurement methods are labor-intensive and time-consuming.

To organize effective communication for a large team on-site and have the ability to implement changes, add information to the drawings and minimize errors, you would need a convenient and accessible way to store the process for all participants.

Lack of communication and up-to-date data from all participants in the work on the industrial site leads to errors and failures.

There are situations when mechanisms fail due to breakage or defect of a part that has already been removed from production and has no analogs.

It is not feasible to repeat a pattern without having a model and accurate documentation to fully match and replace an obsolete or broken one.

To ensure that everyone working with an object has access to complete information about it, can make changes, add information to drawings and minimize errors, you would need a solution that is easy and accessible to everyone.

When changes occur in the project, it is necessary to display them on all drawings and to notify the existing and future participants.

Usually, the process of measuring the volume of mined rock in open-pit mines looks like this: the surveyor moves with a hanger, and the engineer coordinates the characteristic contours of the mine with a total station. The measurements are not accurate enough as a result.

Conventional measurements undergo from a few hours to a whole day.  All this time, the specialists are in the working area, which can be unsafe.

Topographic surveying at an open-pit mine takes a long time and doesn’t give high accuracy or detail when applying conventional methods.

Even with a bundle of money and time, you would not get the proper level of detail and accuracy.

As a result of the measurement work, surface marks are obtained. Those are transmitted to the mine for the breakdown of underground coordinates. The results also get used for the laying of mine workings and directions. Such works require high accuracy, high time, and financial costs.

It is vital to carry out measurement work without stopping the process and without contacting the equipment since a process stoppage causes the entire production to stop.

The preservation of world heritage sites is a priority for the present generation. At the same time, it is unlikely to prevent access to them, as they are used for research and educational purposes.

The use of original heritage sites for research and studies is a threat to them.

CAD documentation should be as accurate and detailed as possible, which is especially important when it comes to objects of historical and cultural heritage.

At the use of conventional ways of creation of visual models, it is difficult to consider the smallest details, and the process demands much time and means.

During the research work, architects need the characteristics of the area, because the location of many architectural monuments is subject to a specific topographical pattern. They need to know the exact measurements of heights, the location of cliffs, ravines, fords. 

Due to the terrain’s roughness, it is impossible to cover it at one glance, even from a height. Creating topographic plans takes a lot of time and money, and the maps quickly become outdated.

This generation’s task is to preserve heritage sites that are on the verge of destruction. Because of this, artifacts cannot be studied in schools or universities, used in presentations, restored, or used for making discoveries.

A very narrow circle of scientists and researchers have access to the artifacts, so we know only about 30% of the world’s history.