FARO Technologies announces the release of FARO Flatness Check, its first augmented reality app for the concrete industry
FARO Flatness Check will enable the immediate visualization of floor flatness and floor levelness ensuring pours are completed on schedule, improved quality of work, and the elimination of expensive rework typical in high-rise residential and office construction.
Flatness Check integrates with FARO Sphere, a cloud-based and Software as a Service-enabled ecosystem, and is compatible with several generations of laser scanners, including the new FARO Focus Premium Laser Scanner.
FARO Flatness Check app is a unique quality control workflow for the concrete industry
Users of the Flatness Check app can document and analyze the floor flatness and floor levelness of any concrete slab and share that data with additional project stakeholders, using an iPad.
The app also enables foremen guiding field crews to identify out-of-tolerance areas within minutes and to fix those deviations while the concrete is still wet.
With Flatness Check, schedules are adhered to and other trades can continue their work in a timely and efficient manner.
Flatness Check’s intuitive design and superior user interface allows maximum usability to capture scan data directly into the app’s analysis algorithms and to generate augmented reality heat maps of a concrete slab. Differentiated colours correspond to specific floor flatness and floor levelness deviations.
The app can trigger scan processing and registration, analyzing all data collected from Focus Premium, M70, S70, S150 and S350 laser scanners.
Flatness Check supports ongoing sustainability efforts in the concrete industry
Alistair Wells, director of product management, FARO: “Together with key customers serving as industry experts FARO has created a unique quality control workflow for the concrete industry with the huge potential to reduce rework and costs.
“Flatness Check is the first of its kind, embedded into the FARO Sphere ecosystem and marks the beginning of what will be the rollout of additional construction quality control solutions.
“By helping the concrete industry prevent waste, reduce materials usage and speed time spent on-site FARO is taking an important step in its ongoing corporate sustainability efforts to reduce carbon emissions and to ensure greener, cleaner communities wherever FARO products are in use.”
Floor analysis using augmented reality is a complete game changer
Ben Stocker, a Construction Technologist with Skender, a Chicago-based general contractor, said: “The ability to scan, analyze, and view a floor analysis on the jobsite in augmented reality is a complete game changer. It’s a much more immersive experience to all parties consuming the data.”
