One of the features that makes Reconstruct’s reality mapping engine so unique is its ability to interpret and blend reality data captured on virtually every type of device. From smartphones to 360 cameras to drones to laser scanners, Reconstruct’s technology automatically pins footage in space and over time, piecing together whatever pictures and videos you’ve captured into one immersive digital twin for construction.
From Reconstruct.
During our groundbreaking experiment at the Oracle Lab in Chicago, we worked alongside our collaborators to determine which reality capture tools were best for various use cases. In this article, we’ll zero in on the benefits of using a smartphone for geo-referenced reality capture.
Key takeaways
The smartphone camera already in your pocket is often the perfect choice for quickly capturing the details of certain elements of a construction project, including mapping recent installations of underground pipes and utilities, quality control and inspection of rebar cages and their embedments, conduits, etc., before placement of concrete, in-wall inspections, and mapping under-ceiling MEP modules.
Smartphone cameras yield images with dense 3D point clouds and 2D floor plans (or 2D under-ceiling orthophotos), and those extra point clouds and 2D reality maps provide even better clarity and measurability.
While a 360 camera is perfect for rapidly capturing a panoramic view of a job site, complementing this footage with key high-resolution images provides stakeholders additional accuracy and visibility where it matters.
Smartphones are affordable—and always handy for reality capture.
Just about everyone on your active job site has a smartphone. By selecting a reality mapping engine that accepts smartphone data and expertly blends that footage with reality data captured using other types of hardware, you’re much more likely to receive thorough and frequent updates to your digital twin.
Smartphones are readily available and can be used alongside 360 cameras to provide virtually all the footage needed for visual progress monitoring, visual quality assurance and quality control, and even facility condition assessments, physical asset inspections, and site surveys. These solutions offer complementary reality mapping and documentation capabilities to those of high-precision laser scanners and photo-realistic Matterport walkthroughs.
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