What is PlanRadar SiteView?
PlanRadar SiteView offers Reality Capture through 360° imagery of a project while a user walks the site, with the images automatically mapped onto a 2D plan, creating a detailed visual record of activity.
What can you do with it?
- Indoor and Outdoor reality capture.
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View and navigate the 360° images.
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Compare 360° images from different points in time.
- Save time by avoiding manually taking photos and positioning them on plans.
Use Cases
- Progress documentation
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As-Built documentation
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Quality assurance
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Photo documentation
- Evidence Collection
- Health & safety inspections
- Condition schedules (pre-renovation documentation)
What is it not?
- It's not a point cloud and it does not generate a 3D model.
- It' not a video.
- It's not a scan.
- It's not automatically predicting construction progress.
Activate the SiteView Feature
Access & Permissions
Currently, SiteView is only available to selected customers. To activate this feature, contact your sales agent, customer success manager or our support team at support@planradar.com.
To prepare your plans for SiteView, you need an in-house user with the user permission 'Projects.
To manage permissions within SiteView there are role permissions. Read more in Permissions.
Read the SiteView Quick Start Guide for an overview of the steps required to use this feature, with links to detailed instructions.
Requirements
Hardware
SiteView is optimised for the Insta360 X4 camera only.
The camera must be mounted on a helmet and its recommended to use a high capacity micro SD card.
Read more in SiteView Hardware Requirements.
Plan Requirements
It's recommended to use SiteView with architectural plans as the automatic mapping performs best with plans that display only the structural elements and minimal additional information (HVAC, etc.).
Read more in SiteView Plan Requirements.
Terminology
Run
A run consists of the path of all 360° images positioned on a 2D plan of one single recording.
Read more in View & Manage Runs and Create a Run with the PlanRadar Mobile App.
It is also possible, but not recommended to create a run without the PlanRadar mobile app, as described in Record a Run with the Insta360 App and Upload a Run in the Webapp.
Recording
A recording is the video that is uploaded and then processed to generate a run.
Image point
An image point is a point on a run that can be selected to view the corresponding 360° image.
Read more in View & Navigate 360° Images.
Privacy
All people captured in the images are automatically blurred out for privacy reasons.
Technology
SiteView is powered by an algorithm called SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). SLAM develops a map of an unknown environment while moving through it and is a core technology behind self-driving cars.
PlanRadar SiteView uses image-based SLAM to estimate the path of the person who walks the site on a digital construction plan, with AI-powered computer vision algorithms focusing on depth estimation to align the path to the plan.
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