AR powered property scanning
Challenge
Property documentation has always been split between two worlds: indoor and outdoor, with no way to bring them together. RoomPlan and LiDAR each do their job well in isolation, but the data they produce does not align. Field teams ended up juggling separate tools for rooms, sketches, photos, and measurements, with no unified project view and no way to merge everything into a single coherent plan.
The core problem: indoor rooms and outdoor plots were scanned with different technologies that could not be reconciled. Separately scanned spaces could not be combined into one 2D floor plan or viewed as a complete 3D model of the property. The result was fragmented, hard-to-use data and significant time lost trying to piece it together manually.
Property documentation has always been split between two worlds: indoor and outdoor, with no way to bring them together. RoomPlan and LiDAR each do their job well in isolation, but the data they produce does not align. Field teams ended up juggling separate tools for rooms, sketches, photos, and measurements, with no unified project view and no way to merge everything into a single coherent plan.
The core problem: indoor rooms and outdoor plots were scanned with different technologies that could not be reconciled. Separately scanned spaces could not be combined into one 2D floor plan or viewed as a complete 3D model of the property. The result was fragmented, hard-to-use data and significant time lost trying to piece it together manually.
Solution
A single iOS app that handles the full property scan, inside and out, within one unified workflow.
For indoor spaces: guided room scanning via Apple RoomPlan, with a smart manual-connect fallback for incomplete scans so no work is ever lost. A sketch portal lets users edit and annotate floor plans post-scan. Multi-floor support is built in, and everything exports to PDF with images and measurements.
For outdoor areas: LiDAR scanning covers the surrounding plot and exterior terrain. Photo capture is tied directly to the scan flow. The app generates orthophoto projections and bird's-eye views of the site, and produces a full textured 3D mesh of the outdoor area by recording video, selecting the best frames, and fusing them with LiDAR data. Outdoor results also export to PDF with floor plans, photos, and measurements.
The result is one app, one workflow, one report.
A single iOS app that handles the full property scan, inside and out, within one unified workflow.
For indoor spaces: guided room scanning via Apple RoomPlan, with a smart manual-connect fallback for incomplete scans so no work is ever lost. A sketch portal lets users edit and annotate floor plans post-scan. Multi-floor support is built in, and everything exports to PDF with images and measurements.
For outdoor areas: LiDAR scanning covers the surrounding plot and exterior terrain. Photo capture is tied directly to the scan flow. The app generates orthophoto projections and bird's-eye views of the site, and produces a full textured 3D mesh of the outdoor area by recording video, selecting the best frames, and fusing them with LiDAR data. Outdoor results also export to PDF with floor plans, photos, and measurements.
The result is one app, one workflow, one report.
Results
The app went from project kickoff to release in 9 months, a tight timeline for a solution of this technical complexity, combining AR, LiDAR, RoomPlan, GIS mapping, and custom 3D reconstruction in a single native iOS product.
Property documentation that previously required multiple tools, manual stitching, and significant field and office time now runs end-to-end in a single session. The speed improvement is 10x compared to traditional manual documentation methods.
The output is ready to use: complete floor plans and site plans that combine indoor room layouts, outdoor terrain maps, photos, and precise measurements, all in one unified PDF report, ready to hand off without any post-processing.
The app went from project kickoff to release in 9 months, a tight timeline for a solution of this technical complexity, combining AR, LiDAR, RoomPlan, GIS mapping, and custom 3D reconstruction in a single native iOS product.
Property documentation that previously required multiple tools, manual stitching, and significant field and office time now runs end-to-end in a single session. The speed improvement is 10x compared to traditional manual documentation methods.
The output is ready to use: complete floor plans and site plans that combine indoor room layouts, outdoor terrain maps, photos, and precise measurements, all in one unified PDF report, ready to hand off without any post-processing.