NuSpatial’s patents and experience working with clients have given us an opportunity recognize the need for yet undeveloped concepts and products. We have ventured into the development of new ideas that could have significant benefit to state of practice for one industry or another. Here we talk about some of the exciting project we’ve been pursuing that can and will give results that will in effect reduce cost, improve safety, speed up a process, result in less materials used, etc. These are important issues that always impact the bottom line–cost to do business. We will always strive to innovate.

Patents

Data Collection and Point Cloud Generation System and Method

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Floor Surveying System

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System And Method For Mapping: An Interior Space

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Collaboration Tool Platform

NuSpatial developed a system for Milliken, a high-end commercial flooring manufacturing company, that allowed them to present flooring designs to architecture firms and clients for review. The reviewers could annotate the floor designs in high resolution 3D renderings of the building structure. Milliken first approached us for Flooridator and quickly realized that our experience and expertise with AR, VR and other visualization innovations could help them with a larger problem: how to collaborate with clients on their flooring designs. This was literally taking 1+ years effort for them to finalize a large design. After some research, we were not able to find existing technology to help them, but we knew we had experience and the skills to develop a solution that would improve their ability to collaborate and finalize designs. NuSpatial developed a cloud-hosted system and Microsoft Windows based tool called Collaboration Tool Platform (CTP). Milliken had not previously adopted any commercial CAD tools, so clients had to provide them with vector drawings of floor areas and have them imported into their in-house developed floor design tool. CTP helped Milliken adopt Autodesk Revit in their flooring design process, and we used our expertise in building Autodesk Revit plug-ins to integrate with CTP.   CTP provided tools that would export floor designs from their 2D tool into Revit CAD models, which allowed them to visualize and edit projects in 3D and do 3D high resolution renderings for clients. CTP also allowed Milliken to start their projects from a client Revit model that would be imported into their 2D tool. This has accelerated Milliken’s process with clients, and has shortened their overall processing time. CTP-based technology is currently ready and available to be adapted to other uses.

Concepts

NuBDM

NuBDM ensures timely and up-to-date representations of building construction for all stakeholders and enterprises involved. NuBDM maintains a single, consistent, and corresponding account of a building project’s state and status, and is accessible to all users on both desktop and mobile devices.

NuWhere

NuWhere supports the tracking of assets and people within a building or facility. Although it could be deployed to show where assets and people are at any one moment, we are more focused on putting this technology to use in a specific application such as with Connecting Plan.

NuSiteWatch

NuSiteWatch is a construction job site sensor platform that provides remote visual monitoring to stakeholders. Subcontractors can monitor progress by other trades in units to check the status and to better know when to engage and what tasks are needed.

TakeOff

TakeOff is a 3D application that runs on Windows and Linux which supports a range of users in the construction and trades field. To start with, it can import 2D drawing images of construction plans and then supports a process of converting to CAD. This kind of process is important to any business that gets CAD drawings and needs to do takeoffs to measure floor areas, millwork, cabinetry and built-ins, etc. Once imported, then they become a 3D CAD object model compatible with BIM. TakeOff integrates with Autdodesk Revit and supports many features that make them both collaborate well as integrated tools. TakeOff incorporates another of our concepts called Building Data Model (BDM) which allow us to integrate the use of Android tablets to work in the field to collect measurement data, floor plans, and annotations.

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