AuraGO Use Cases and Recommended Applications

What are recommended AuraGO applications?

AuraGO is meant for every day field use and is primarily targeted toward professionals in architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), public safety, facility management, real estate, industrial facilities, manufacturing VFX and gaming. Primary use cases are organized below. AuraGO provides the ease of use for the non-expert to confidently capture existing conditions without the need for heavy, complex 3D survey equipment or teams. 

AEC Primary Use Cases:
  1. Site walks
  2. Coordination and virtual design planning
  3. Estimating
  4. Scan to BIM
  5. Scan to floor plan
  6. Underground rough-ins
  7. Local utility mapping
  8. Building as-builts
  9. Building envelope capture
  10. Local bridge, culvert, ramp and sidewalk capture
  11. Manhole as-builts
  12. Above ceiling capture
  13. Mechanical room as-builts & retrofit planning
  14. Digital twin creation and/or regional updating 
  15. Marketing / Virtual Tour
  16. Local terrain capture
  17. Stockpile capture
  18. Roof / HVAC capture
Industrial Facility Use Cases:
  1. Site walks / coordination / clash avoidance
  2. Job estimating and turnaround planning
  3. Simulation
  4. Larger diameter piping as-builts
  5. Digital twin maintenance
  6. Utility shacks / building assets
Public Safety Use Cases:
  1. Pre-incident Planning
  2. Crime Scene Capture
  3. Low resolution crash analysis
Manufacturing Use Cases:
  1. Digital twin creation and/or regional updating
  2. Facility management
  3. Space planning
Real Estate Use Cases:
  1. Virtual Tours
  2. Space planning
  3. Marketing / presentation
  4. As-built verification
  5. Floor plans and 3D modeling
Gaming & VFX
  1. World engine creation
  2. Digital asset creation
  3. Visual twins
  4. Virtual production



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